What's new in GCstar 1.6.1
Aug 27, 2010
- CSV plugin now allows you to select which field to use to search for internet results.
- Graphs generated from statistics are smoothed.
- New default collections: TV shows (series) and Computer Software collection (written by Qoolman).
- Bugs fixed.
New in GCstar 1.6.0 (Aug 4, 2010)
- Generation of statistics.
- New chinese (traditional) translation.
- New default collections: Smart cards
- Dramatic speed up of loading collections when hi-resolution pictures are used.
- Added Update button to items, which refreshes the current item's details from the web page it was originally fetched from.
- Fields with a history have an auto-completion feature when user starts to enter text
- Lots of new skins and skin remakes
- New plugin to export to an external disk. Useful to copy a collection for GCstar Viewer on Android (http://wiki.gcstar.org/en/gcstar_viewer)
- New plugin to export in Palm PDB format.
- CSV Import plugin now has the option to pull information from websites during import.
- DVDFr plugin (Movies - FR) now supports searching by EAN, it can directly be used with a barcode scanner
- New plugins to fetch information from websites
- Bugs fixed
New in GCstar 1.5.0 (Nov 20, 2009)
- New kind of collections: Stamps, Periodicals and Mini vehicles.
- Items can be grouped in picture mode as in detailed mode.
- User filters can be added to toolbar.
- User can choose for each field from which sites information should be fetched and in which order.
- A right-click on the "Fetch information" button displays a menu to change the mode.
- Many improvements in the plugin to import information from a folder.
- New plugins to fetch information from websites.
- Data corruption in collections should not occur anymore.
New in GCstar 1.5.0 Beta 1 (Jul 21, 2009)
- New kind of collections: Stamps, Periodicals and Mini vehicles.
- Items can be grouped in picture mode as in detailed mode.
- User filters can be added to toolbar.
- User can choose for each field from which sites information should be fetched and in which order.
- A right-click on the "Fetch information" button displays a menu to change the mode.
- Many improvements in the plugin to import information from a folder.
- New plugins to fetch information from websites.
- Data corruption in collections should not occur anymore.
New in GCstar 1.4.3 (Oct 12, 2008)
- A Dutch translation has been added.
- Performance for plugins fetching data was improved.
- The Discogs plugin (Music - EN) supports searches using an artist or a label.
- Shortcuts can also be defined on saved searches.
- Bugs in image mode were fixed.
New in GCstar 1.4.2 (Aug 29, 2008)
- Export/Import/Fetch/Extract changes
- Fetch can be done using writer for comics collections. Supported by Bedetheque plugin.
- More plugins use big pictures if option is checked (Thanks to adiGuba).
- Allocine (Movies FR)
- Cinemotions (Movies FR)
- Import identifier and media labels from movies collections created with Ant Movie Catalog.
- New plugins to fetch information from websites:
- nooSFere (Books FR) provided by TPF
- TheLegacy (Video games DE) provided by TPF
- Bugs fixed
- Title when opening items in windows was not updated.
- Rating was lost when displayed with stars and fetched from a website.
- Title in the list was incorrect for some collections when modifying many items together.
- When changing a picture, the previous one was not always selected in the file manager window.
- Duplicating an item also duplicates the pictures that are managed by GCstar.
- An extra dot was added on the end of borrowers email when sending a message.
- The option to use big pictures from websites were ignored when importing from a list of name or from a directory.
- .tar.gz import was failing for default collections with added fields.
- Exporting from command line didn't copy the pictures.
- Bug fixed in some website plugins:
- All Tvdb plugins (TV shows episodes)
- Allocine (Movies FR)
- Bedetheque (Comics FR). Thanks to Ogddit
- Cinemotions (Movies FR)
- Fnac (Books FR)
- JeuxVideo.com (Video games FR)