What's Next?

Hi Guys, many of you are giving me some great ideas on what to introduce into Pornspective, thank you for the all the messages! 

I'm currently working on a new view to show off cover artworks that you can now add to content, especially useful for full movies. However this work is more than just introducing a new view, I'm actually reviewing and refactoring the user interface framework behind.

When you first build an application with one or two user interfaces you tend to build the code in an organic way that suits what you are doing at the time. The best developers, a bit like chess, think several moves ahead and try to predict how the application will grow. I have done this to a certain degree and created an underlying framework that allows different results panels and views to  be shown. However I'm still seeing that I'm repeating code in several places which is not good for the longer term. I'm refactoring this now so that I can continue to develop very quickly without breaking the application.

I'm now introducing the ability for the results panel and the content panel to not only be arranged in more ways than one but to also have a pre-results panel as an option. This in later versions will allow me to introduce more ways to drill down into your collection i.e. folder based, actress based, appearance then actress based etc..

So the next version will have cleaner code built in and ready for me to expand the functionality in later versions. For the next version I'll also be adding more around the locations (index locations) including more information and usage stats, I'll also include better support for remote storage like external usb drives. All this whilst still chipping away at the AI tagging work.

Due to the refactoring and cleaning of code I'm not going to pack much more into the next version (1.8.0 was already a big version). However beyond the next version I'm looking to include more options around scanning folders, especially if you've got other ways in which you organise your collection i.e. single items per folder (like Kodi). I'm also looking to add standard .nfo file support for both scanning folders and hopefully ability to export to Kodi too. I'm still researching this area more.

As always I aim to get a version out around 8th or 9th of each month, 1.8.1 is looking like its on track.