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1. also switch to the Tape View by double clicking on a tape Figure 2 Tape View In the tape view Figure 2 the contents of a single tape is shown At the top of the screen the total length of the tape is shown as well as the size of the largest free block You can tap on the tape length to edit the properties of the tape label length and category Under the length is a graphical representation of the whole tape and the recordings on it followed by a list of recorded programmes or blank spaces In the lower right corner of the screen you have the SP LP selector and relativity selector for tape positions see sections 2 1 1 and 2 1 3 In the graphical representation of the tape you see black areas for each recorded programme that you haven t yet seen When checking off a programme as seen the area is changed into a hollow outline and the title is crossed over Seen programmes Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 7 of 10 are automatically accounted as free space unless you have marked the programme as keep see section 2 4 Seen programmes that you have marked as keep are shown as gray areas in the graphical bar The list of recorded programmes shows the title start position and length of each entry Programmes that are recorded in LP mode have their length underlined like the first two entries in Figure 2 so you can quickly identify them as such The fourth row shows the position and length of the2. is given that it will work on every Palm OS Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 3 of 10 1 6 Shareware device The author may not be held liable for any damages direct or consequential which may result from the use of this program VideoLib is shareware You are allowed to evaluate the software at no charge for up to 30 days During this trial period the software is fully functional although it displays a reminder screen every time the program is started After the trial period is over you will no longer be able to enter any new information into the program s database If you wish to continue to use VideoLib after your 30 day trial period you must purchase a license The license costs 15 and allows you to unlock and run VideoLib on one Palm OS device without any shareware reminders or limitations The license is valid for future versions of VideoLib as well The license can be bought from PalmGear H Q www palmgear com See section 2 6 for details on registering 1 7 About the author 1 8 Feedback The author has around 20 years of experience with writing computer programs which started with Basic programming for the Sinclair ZX81 back in 1981 Since then many computers and programming languages have been used to make different kinds of software ranging from purely recreational games to fascinating fractal generators solving of computational problems and other useful utilities The common factor in
3. unrecorded region on the tape There is a Purge function in the menu that erases all seen programmes except those marked as keep on the current tape resulting in a cleaner view of the contents Tip With the hardware scroll buttons you can conveniently go to the previous or next tape as determined by the current sort order in the Tape List View You can tap on a block in the bar to select the corresponding entry Double clicking on a row or a block in the bar or pressing the Details button opens the detailed information for the selected entry see section 2 4 If you press the New button or just start writing some text you will start enter a new recording with the default length and position taken from the largest free block With the view selector control in the lower left corner you can switch back to the list of tapes with the current tape automatically highlighted or switch to the list of all programmes see section 2 5 with the currently selected programme automatically highlighted 2 4 Programme Info Figure 3 Programme Info The Programme Info Dialog Figure 3 shows detailed information about a selected programme or a new entry that you are making The title is rather obvious but right below the title are some checkboxes The seen checkbox is the same as each entry has in the Tape View see section 2 3 the keep setting can be used to keep a recording even after it has been seen i e it does not tu
4. VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual By Kai Risku Copyright 2001 Dedicated to my wife Pia Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 OVERVIEW 1 2 BACKGROUND 1 3 REQUIREMENTS 1 4 COPYRIGHT 1 5 WARRANTY 1 6 SHAREWARE 1 7 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 1 8 FEEDBACK 2 USING VIDEOLIB 2 1 BASICS 2 2 2 4 25 2 6 3 1 3 2 2 1 1 Short play and long play 2 1 2 Entering lengths 2 1 3 Tape positions 2 1 4 Visual hints 2 1 5 Find support TAPE LIST VIEW TAPE VIEW PROGRAMME INFO PROGRAMMES LIST VIEW REGISTRATION CHANGES VERSION 1 1 VERSION 1 0 COCANADNUNUNAAAKR HS WWWNNNNN WN m coos Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 2 of 10 1 Introduction 1 1 Overview 1 2 Background 1 3 Requirements 1 4 Copyright 1 5 Warranty VideoLib is the perfect solution for organized Palm owners that wish to have full control over their collection for videotapes VideoLib keeps track of all your videotapes and what where and when you have recorded programmes on them Full knowledge of the length of each tape combined with detailed information about the position and length of each recording gives you total control for utilizing the capacity of your tape library to the fullest No more lost recordings no more futile search for enough empty space and no more accidental overwrites For many years I have kept track of the contents of my videotapes using a small notebook I devoted one page per tape numbered e
5. VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 9 of 10 2 6 Registration Figure 5 Registration Dialog The menu selection Options Register opens the registration dialog Figure 5 When purchasing a license for VideoLib from PalmGear H Q www palmgear com you need to supply the username and regcode shown in this dialog as well as a valid email address Within 1 2 business days from the purchase you will be emailed the license code that unlocks your copy and future versions of VideoLib Just enter the license in the registration dialog Finnish users might find it more convenient to purchase a license directly from the author cash only Please contact for details As there has been considerable time and effort spent in developing this software your registration is highly appreciated and helps further development of this and other software Thank you for your support Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 10 of 10 3 Changes 3 1 Version 1 1 Released June 17 2001 Added the view showing all programmes as a single list with easy switching between the different views A lot of user interface tweaks to make the program more consistent and easy to use Optimized many parts of the program so it should be a lot faster especially when handling large amounts of data Compatibility fixes for Palm OS 3 5 and 4 0 there is an especially tricky bug in Palm OS 3 5 and higher that caused instability in the program and
6. ach tape and wrote down when and what I recorded on each tape It worked very well until we got a new VCR capable of long play recordings My manual system somewhat exploded I needed more precise information to know where I had enough space available for recordings and manually calculating available space when mixing short play and long play recordings became an increasingly difficult problem Thus the need for a good Palm program was born but I failed to find any suitable program that would live up to my requirements Being an able programmer I decided to write VideoLib After an extensive period of test use I am finally proud to present VideoLib to a broader audience I hope you find this software as useful as I have e Palm OS 3 0 or higher e 40 kb of memory for the program plus approximately 0 3 kb per tape for an average of five recordings per tape some videotapes for a more realistic experience VideoLib is Copyright 2001 Kai Risku All rights reserved You may not modify VideoLib or disable any licensing or control features of the software Tampering with the software or using so called key generators to bypass the license system in the software is prohibited and might even corrupt your handheld device All trademarks mentioned in this manual or in the software belong to their respective owners VideoLib is offered to you AS IS without any warranty This software has been thoroughly tested but no guarantee
7. all software made during the years is that they were made using whatever the favorite environment and language was at the time to solve some curiosity or problem that was currently on interest A small fraction of these programs are available from the author s homepage mentioned below Apart from programming the author also enjoys playing the piano reading or spending quality time with his wife and dog Bugs problems ideas suggestions or any other kind of feedback is highly appreciated but read this manual thoroughly before asking for help Your opinion counts and you can indeed make a difference Please contact Kai Risku krisku iki fi http www iki fi krisku Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 4 of 10 2 Using VideoLib 2 1 Basics Before going into details about specific views in VideoLib there are some basic things that apply to many parts of the software These basics are covered in this section 2 1 1 Short play and long play Many modern video recorders can use two tape speeds SP for short play or normal speed and LP for long play or half speed By reducing the tape speed to half of the normal speed twice as much can be recorded on the tape at the cost of a slight degradation in picture quality VideoLib fully supports SP LP modes which means you can easily change if e g the length of an empty space on a tape should be shown in SP or LP mode On screens where the displayed infor
8. entering tape positions into VideoLib you can enter it in any length format see section 2 1 2 but use negative values for positions relative the end of the tape Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 5 of 10 2 1 4 Visual hints 2 1 5 Find support 2 2 Tape List View VideoLib always converts what you have entered into canonical H MM or H MM format depending on the current relativity setting Note for the position relative to the end of the tape to be accurate the tape length must be as correct as possible Because the purpose of VideoLib is to help you organize your videotapes and the programmes you have recorded on them it is important to be able to see as much information as possible at once This means you should not have to waste time and patience opening and closing different dialogs to access the relevant information In order to accomplish this VideoLib uses a number of visual hints in a consistent manner lengths of programmes or free space are always underlined if they should be interpreted as LP mode i e a programme recorded in LP mode always has its length underlined while amounts of free space can be shown in SP or LP mode and the latter is underlined e programmes that are marked as seen and can be overwritten have their titles crossed over programmes that are marked to keep have their titles underlined VideoLib supports the Palm OS global find function You can search fo
9. had to be worked around quite a bit this delayed the 1 1 release very much 3 2 Version 1 0 Released February 26 2001 After several months of use testing and bug fixing by the author the first public release was done
10. he block of continuous free space that would result from watching the respective programme equal to the length of the programme plus the length of usable space before and after the programme If you don t have enough free space on any tape the yield value can be used to help you decide which programme to watch or skip to make the the amount of free space you need The list can be sorted by clicking on the respective column header A second click on the same header reverses the sort order The column that the list is currently sorted by has its header underlined Advanced stuff Entries that have identical values in the primary sort column are sorted according to the secondary sort column which is the previously selected sort column Ie if you want the list so be sorted primarily by the recording date and secondarily by the length of the programme you first click the len column and then the date column In the lower right corner of the screen you have the SP LP selector which determines whether the yield value is shown in SP or LP mode see section 2 1 1 With the view selector control in the lower left corner you can switch back to the list of tapes with the tape on which the currently selected programme automatically highlighted or switch to the tape view see section 2 3 with the currently selected programme automatically highlighted You can also switch to the tape view by double clicking on a programme Kai Risku 17 06 2001
11. mation depends on the SP LP mode such as free space there is an SP LP selector you can tap to toggle the current mode in effect The selector always displays the currently active mode and looks like this SP or LP 2 1 2 Entering lengths When entering lengths in VideoLib e g a tape length or a programme length you can enter it the following ways H MM for H hours and MM minutes e g 2 15 is two hours and 15 minutes H hh for fractional hours comma also allowed e g 1 5 is one hour and 30 minutes H for whole H hours one digit e g 1 is one hour M for MM minutes two digits e g 45 is 45 minutes HMM for H hours and MM minutes e g 120 is one hour and 20 minutes VideoLib always converts what you have entered into canonical H MM format so you can see the result of what you have entered 2 1 3 Tape positions Most video recorders have some way of displaying the current tape position Some show the position relative to the beginning of the tape some as the time to the end of the tape VideoLib supports both ways of displaying tape positions On screens showing tape positions the mode can be toggled with the relativity selector When the selector looks like E all tape positions are displayed in the format H MM relative the beginning of the tape Tapping the selector causes it to change to EJ and show all tape positions in the format H MM relative the end of the tape When
12. r titles of recorded programmes and the found titles are shown together with their recording date and programme length the length is underlined if the programme was recorded in LP mode The find function can be even more usable with the help of some third party Find enhancement or Hack capable of matching substrings regular expressions or searching only in the current application Search on PalmGear for the following Beiks Find FindHack GlobalFind and IntelligentFind to just name a few candidates in alphabetical order Figure 1 Tape List View In the Tape List View Figure 1 you see a list of your tapes filtered by the category selected in the upper right corner For each tape its label and some summary information is shown such as number and length of recorded programmes You can customize which fields should be shown in the list either by clicking the checkmark in the upper right corner or by choosing Options Show from the menu The available fields are rather self explanatory but note that it is the length of the largest Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 6 of 10 2 3 Tape View empty space that is shown and not the total empty space The category column if selected is only visible if viewing all categories The list can be sorted by clicking on the respective column header A second click on the same header reverses the sort order The column that the list is currently sorted by has its heade
13. r underlined Advanced stuff Entries that have identical values in the primary sort column are sorted according to the secondary sort column which is the previously selected sort column Le if you want the list so be sorted primarily by the number of recordings and secondarily by the length of the recordings you first click the reclen column and then the rec column In the lower right corner of the screen you have the SP LP selector which determines whether the tape length and free space is shown in SP or LP mode see section 2 1 1 You can create new tapes in the tape list view When creating a new tape you should give it a suitable label and a length The label can be any string you want but I find it easier to use sequential numbers as seen in the screenshots in this manual and write the same number on the actual tape as well The length of a tape is always entered in SP mode Most tapes have a few extra minutes which you should include in the length otherwise positions relative the end of the tape will not be accurate The length can be updated at any time without affecting what you have recorded on the tape The Details button let you edit the label length and category of the currently selected tape This can also be done from the Tape View see section 2 3 In the lower left corner is the view selector control for switching between the Tape List View the Tape View and the Programmes List View in that order You can
14. rn into free space Programmes that have their keep flag set have their titles underlined in lists The partial checkbox has no function in VideoLib so you are free to use it as you see fit When editing one of the length see section 2 1 2 start or end position see section 2 1 3 fields the others are updated accordingly Remember to set the SP LP selector to the correct recording mode The end of a programme can exceed the end of the tape by a small amount in case the tape length is inaccurate When entering a new recording it may not overlap any other unseen or keep marked programmes If that should happen VideoLib will give a warning telling you Kai Risku 17 06 2001 VideoLib 1 1 User s Manual Page 8 of 10 how big the overlap is and ask for your confirmation to continue If you choose to continue the overlapped programme or programmes are deleted This is because the current version of VideoLib does not support partially overwritten programmes 2 5 Programmes List View Figure 4 Programme List View The Programmes List View Figure 4 lists all programmes that are found on the tapes belonging to the currently selected category upper right corner For each programme its title and some select information is shown You can customize what information should be shown in the list either by clicking the checkmark in the upper right corner or by choosing Options Show from the menu The yield column shows the size of t
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