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The Main Window is initially divided into five sections:
| which is described in detail in the chapter `The Menus' |
| You have access to most of the fuctionality. For a detailed description see the chapter `The Tool Bar' |
| You can find here a list of vidoes from the actually opened database. For a detailed description see the chapter `The Video List' |
| You can find here the details concerning the selected video. For a detailed description see the chapter `The Detail Window' |
| A list of all movies on a specific tape. For a detailed description see the chapter `The Cassette Window' |
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The items within the menus File and Help act as described in the KDE Standard Menu Help.
Add Movie | A window will be displayed in which you can insert all data of a new movie for the purpose of adding this movie. |
Edit Movie | A window will be displayed in which you can edit all data of the highlighted movie. |
Delete Movie | The highlighted movie will be deleted. If you set the menu-item "Ask when deleting" to true, you will be asked if you really want to delete this movie. |
Serch Movie | A dialog window will be displayed in which you can specify search conditions to find all movies matching them. |
Reset Movie-List | The video list will be reseted, the first movie will be displayed and marked as current. |
Show all Properties | You can choose, if you also want to see the default icons in the icon lines in the Detail Window. |
Show Casette Window | You can choose, if you want to see a window with all movies on a certain cassette. |
Swallow Casette Window | You can choose, if you want the casette window docked into the main window or if it should be displayed in its own window. |
Ask before deleting | This usefull switch allows you to choose, if you want to be asked before a movie is irreversibly deleted. |
Options... | Opens a dialog, in which the options of the kvideodb can be specified. |
Save Options | Saves the options in Your kvideodbrc
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The tool bar contains icons which act as described in the following list:
![]() | Exits kvideodb. |
![]() | Opens a new database. You will be asked if you want to save the still opened one first if you have changed it. |
![]() | You will be asked which database you want to open. |
![]() | Your changes will be saved to the file you have opened. You will be asked the name of the database you want to save your changes to, if you haven't specified a name yet. |
![]() | Opens a printer-dialog. |
![]() | The first movie in the video list will be displayed and marked as current. |
![]() | The previous movie in the video list will be displayed and marked as current. |
![]() | The video list will be reseted, the first movie will be displayed and marked as current. |
![]() | The next movie in the video list will be displayed and marked as current. |
![]() | The last movie in the video list will be displayed and marked as current. |
![]() | A window will be displayed in which you can insert all data of a new movie for the purpose of adding this movie. |
![]() | A window will be displayed in which you can edit all data of the highlighted movie. |
![]() | The highlighted movie will be deleted. If you set the menu-item "Ask when deleting" to true, you will be asked if you really want to delete this movie. |
![]() | A dialog window will be displayed in which you can specify search conditions to find all movies matching them. |
![]() | Finds all cassettes with equal or more free space than indicated in the field next to the button. |
![]() | Displays all movies of a particular cassette indicated by its reference in the field next to the button. |
The Video List contains all movies. If you have specified certain search-conditions, e.g. by pressing the "Cast 1"-button, you will get all movies from the database, matching these conditions.
By clicking on a movie you will find all properties in the detail window.
By double-clicking on a movie you will get an edit window. There you can change every detail for the highlighted movie.
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Here you will find all information about the movie you have chosen from the video list.
Every clickable button is connected with a search function, which returns all movies posessing the same content. Exception: the cast buttons, and also the category buttons, are examined as one.
You can specify a search-condition concerning the rating of a movie by pressing the button under the rating-bar.
In the Cassette-Properties Box you will be given more detailed information about the cassette the current movie is on.
The cassette window consists mainly of six buttons, which symbolize a movie's index on a cassette. By pressing one of them the movie-list will jump to the specified movie and its properties will be displayed in the detail window.
You have the possibility to choose whether this window should be swallowed in the main window or displayed in its own. (see: `The Options Menu')
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