Description
In the year 2002, I sought a project of small/medium scale consisting in developing
an application aiming to be used by a considerable number of users and thus allowing me to develop my abilities.
At that time the "japanims" phenomenon (to understand Japanese animations) began and with the wire of various
conversations, it seemed obvious that a problem of names' formatting of the files/episodes existed.
Thus the episodes' exchanges between various impassioned became delicate, tiresome and sometimes even frustrating
insofar as it took them sometimes hours to completely obtain an episode which finally was not the one desired.
(for lack of an evocative name, without ambiguity and/or well formatted).
Although not being impassioned, I had found a challenge to take up: to realize an application, interacting
with a database centralizing the (recognized) lists of episodes of each series, allowing to rename tens,
hundreds and potentially thousands of files in only few mouse's clics, with an uniform formatting, and
definable by the user.
This one being intended only to be used with the series not yet laid off in France, or on original files, bought by their
owner in order to stay in legality.
After the release of the first application's versions, requests were formulated by the users in the will to see
new functionalities integrated to it.
Thus to the wire of time, new functionalities, automations and configuration's parameters were added to the application.
Since the end of 2003, the application provides 36 options and 30 automatisms, has a database rich in information,
has the ability to be updated via Internet while in interacting the server, and is used by a great number of users.
Initially, I had made the choice to use Visual Basic, the basic function of the application being to reach a database
according to some criteria and to format corresponding information for the user.
However, following the interest caused with regard to the application, its evolution and consequently the increasing
quantity of information contained into the database, pushed the application to reach its limits
(consideration ridge on the performances). This is why I produced the last version of this application March 2003,
and launched the Anims renaming project which is its successor.
Indeed, the ambitions are to realize an application in C++, multi platform, multi language, having at least the same
functionalities and offering greater performances.
Corresponding information are on the page dedicated to Anims renaming.
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