Program to track movies I've seen, not what you are thinking

[Marco33]

Yeah, we all have programs to keep track of movies we have. What I'm looking for is a program to track the movies I've seen in a rotating list. I watch a movie at the top of the list. After I watch it I'll mark it watched and it drops to the bottom of the list. This way I don't keep watching the same movies over and over.

Currently I have a box with my movies in sleeves. After I watch the first movie in the box I put it to the back of the box. I'd rather have a program to do this.

I had a program where I put a number in the "title sort" and changed the number after I watched the movie. Basically it worked but it was kind of a hastle.

[drjtech]

Have you considered a simple spreadsheet? Use a column for the date you watch a film, then you can sort by date watched. If you already have a list of the films you own export them to a text file as the staritng point.

[vhelp]

can't you do this in access, vb or delphi ?

(a simple CheckListBox control is all you need. delphi has it and i'm sure vb does too)

you could create a listing in .txt format on your hdd, and then load that into the checklistbox control at startup
create a TiniFile in the apps folder and write the last inc counter there
when you load the rolling list box app, you get the last count and increment it and then save it

here's a vague howto to get you started
1. add a tinifile to your uses clause (reading/writing ini, or use your own method)
2. throw a checklistbox on your form
3. load the checklistbox with the the movie listing, ie movielist.txt
4. when you finish watching a movie, put a check next to the name (make sure it is not set to multi-select)
5. save it. create a button event [Save] or something, or whatever works.

fine-tune the app, the usual that goes into a programming project.

the listing would have to include a sortable indentifier for each item and each time you read/save, you refresh it to the given order so that the list sort of bumps down by one, like. i'm not very good at explaining things, but i hope are getting some ideas from this. or maybe someone can create something simple.

[Marco33]

I'm setting up something in Excel. Should do the trick. I just figured there may have been a program that already did this.

Thanks

[deadrats]

am i the only one that finds this to be rather odd? don't you know if you've seen a movie or not? is your memory that bad?

[Marco33]

If you read my original post again you will see it says a “rotating” list. Track the movies in rotation. Once I watch a movie from my collection it would go to the bottom of the list. That way that movie will not get watched again till I have gone completely through the list of movies. This way the same bunch of movies will not get watched too often. I’m sure there are some movies you wish you hadn’t watched that often. Even though you love them you just can’t sit through another viewing. A good example for me would be “Back to the Future”. I hadn’t watched it in over ten years. I just recently watched it again and enjoyed it. Hope this makes it clearer.