Open Movie Collections Instead When Available

[hcgiub001]

This is funny. I've been wanting to ask you to implement this for a week now. even down to "the movie selected will be highlighted" Thankyou so much!

1/ bug it doesn't highlight the movie in the collection but one less in the collection below I clicked deadpool 2 but deadpool one is highlighted

2/feature request. I love this feature but I don't have extras enabled, please could you allow users that don't have extras enabled to have access to this feature? (also those that haven't enabled extras are even less likely to know the movie might be part of a collection because to otherwise know a movie is part of a collection they would have to bring up context menu on every movie, some users don't have buttons to bring up context menu and don't even know that long press brings up context menu)

3/can we have an option in setting that allows us to indicate a movie is part of a collection. I have one suggestion that could work when you have folders in list, an icon is placed before the title to indicate it's a folder (like so)

since a movie that is part of a collection is also a folder, you could have an icon placed before a movie. something like this

before icon

after icon

again this would be a toggle user can set, but to me it's a nice indication that the user would know when we are going to collections folder (some movies aren't obvious its part of a collection)

this is the icon I'm using taken from this collection https://thenounproject.com/icon/collection-2221162/ (right click save) doesn't have to be this icon

here how it looks on the popular Nimbus skin

before icon

after icon is added

It's subtle and doesn't affect the great aesthetics of Nimbus (thought's @ivarbrandt ?) and user can not have this toggled if they don't want, and it won't be skin dependent.

if you are not fond of an icon, you could use another indicator like underscore on the title. or if the icon is to much going on you can just have a rounded rectangle instead to make it cleaner?

Again thanks for this feature, I really really love it!

[Tikipeter]

1. BUG: I'll remove the auto highlight next update. On slower hardware I'd need to add a sleep time before it, and also you've seen the playing of a Trailer through the skin also messes with it.
2. This will be done next update. I will have to change the settings around a bit so it makes sense what you want to have happen when you select a movie.
3. Unfortunately, Fen Light has to be compatible with more skins than just Nimbus/Fentastic. As such, changing the listitem label to something other than the movies title COULD cause issues for skins that use that instead of the listitem property they are meant to use when displaying the title of the movie. It IS possible it wouldn't cause an issue to have the listitem label as something different, but even in that case I'm pretty sure I would need a special type of image for it to display as part of a label value. The image you included would not work I am sure. If you had some other, less good looking idea as to how the movies belonging to a collection could be distinguished (for example adding a [C] or other alphanumeric value to the label, then I could implement that and keep an eye out for any skins not displaying the label correctly. But there's a 50/50 chance I would end up having to remove it. But we could try.

[hcgiub001]

2/yay! 3/ The solution needs to be aesthetic and fit in with skins or it won't be used. I played around with characters

what I like the most was having the item inside a curly bracket. You'll be aware in Mathematics a set is denoted with curly brackets. so any item that belongs to a set will be placed inside a set. the item itself pops out and using just Nimbus as an example and it's formatting we have

Movies >> Trending | { Deadpool 2 }

Also the character { itself kind of starts of at 1 point in the centre and it branches out into multiple end points, can you see it? which is what we are trying to denote. one item has multiple files to pick from. Thoughts? again you could allow this to be toggled on or off and have it off by default? if anyone has issues with them, they would take it off

[hcgiub001]

I did a search inside FENlight for Deadpool 2 { Deadpool 2 }

both searches produced the same movies, so seems this would be an elegant way to denote a set while not messing anything up

[Tikipeter]

We'll try it with the brackets and see how it goes.....

[hcgiub001]

yay, if the bracket gives issues, you could just have hyphen at the beginning like - Deadpool 2

hyphens are already used so they don't pose a problem already. just any indicator would do , but I'm hopeful the curly brackets would be good. thanks. how about having this as a toggle for those that don't want it? if not it's fine :)

[hcgiub001]

I'm trying out Arctic Horizon 2, damn it's pretty badass, came across this view

having anything in the title is going to look bad. I didn't consider all skins. I think it's fine leaving the title as it is. unless we can toggle the added brackets on and off, otherwise it's okay to just leave it as it is. sorry for wasting your time. I should have tried considering others