[wish] Search & CSV plugins (reviving old topic)

[milan_va]

Hello.

I posted in a 3-month-old forum in hope Ch.G. would read all new posts and reply, but it didn't happen and nobody else probably reads all new posts. So, after a week, I decided to start the topic again .

To resume, it was suggested there could be a new plugin type, a search plugin, to search by other criteria that those hard-wired. Examples could be mp3tag artist or a video duration. For details, see
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=1274&start=15

I noticed that a similar plugin could also be used to customize and extend checksum files beyond *.sfv and *.md5 to e.g. *.csv and *.tth just by using the same plugin and a format string.

The general plugin would extract any reasonable metadata from a file as either integer or a string. For a bit more detailed explanation, see
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2781&start=6
or ask here. I know I can be a little cryptic at times .

Milan

[SanskritFritz]

I think this thread belongs to the plugins forum.

[Hacker]

2milan_va

nobody else probably reads all new posts

Someone certainly does... But not everyone reading these posts has something to add.

Roman

[milan_va]

If I remember correctly, last september Ch.G. promised to look at the Search plugin and make it into TC 6.5 . So I was wandering how's it going.

Even if I got a reply: "Christian decided it's not a good idea.", I'd be happy with just that.

Milan

P.S.: Sorry for the late reply, I didn't get a notification email this time.

[Sheepdog]

If I remember correctly, last september Ch.G. promised to look at the Search plugin and make it into TC 6.5

While you rember right the actual Version of TC is 6.03a. So you would need a lot more patience.

sheepdog

[milan_va]

As I suggested a quite deep modification of that search plugin, I thought I should speak out loud before it's finished or even better before the work has started.
Otherwise, there's no hurry, I already wrote an application to suit my hashing needs.

Milan

[ghisler(Author)]

It's still planned, but I cannot yet say if/when I will add it, because it's not very high on my to do list. Other things like automatic plugin installation needs to come first.

[milan_va]

OK then. As I said, there's no hurry any more.

Although that would be a nice addition