And wouldn't you know it?

Even after careful testing, as soon as I publish it I find a bug. 

Sometimes the first episode gets added twice for some reason. Just remove the second occurence and you should be ok. There will be a fix, but right now I have some TV show episodes to watch. 

Minor update EpisodeCheck 1.1.0
- Season list shows number of unwatched episodes.
- Seasons with no unwatched shown in gray.
- Added "Set unwatched" to context menu in episode lists.
- Added "Exit without updating".
- Added Season title above episode listing.
- Help file updated.

Mostly cosmetic changes. "Exit without updating" lets you start over a session if you mess something up, like deleting stuff that you really did not mean to delete.

I have been thinking of adding disc info, i.e. which discs the episodes are found on, but I haven't decided on the best way of adding that info. I don't want to have to go into each episode separately to add the disc info. We'll see if I can dream up something not too complicated.

Great work, Gunnar, as per usual!   

Yet another small enhancement to make it just a bit easier to work with the program.

EpisodeCheck 1.3.0



When you start the program it automatically loads the last season you had open the previous time, assuming there are still unwatched episodes in that season. If that's not what you want, just hit Esc to clear the search box.

Also, when you open up a season, the program will automatically scroll up the episode list so the last watched episode is on the top of the list, as shown above.

Initially I thought I would put the first unwatched at the top, but I found it more satisfactory to get a visual confirmation that the program hadn't scrolled past any unwatched episodes. Not that I don't trust my own program, but still...

EpisodeCheck 1.4.0

When I added the Disc Info feature in version 1.2 I was keenly aware that it had a limitation that could prove annoying. If you had a release where a disc in the middle of it for some reason contained fewer episodes that the other discs, then it would be impossible to use Add all discs. You would have to add it episode by episode. And in a large set that could be really boring.

But I told myself that I would cross that bridge when I came to it. If it seemed to be too much trouble to be worth it, I could just say "Sorry! What you see is what you get!" and let the user live with it.

But of course it turned out to happen to the worst user possible - myself. 
So I thought to myself that there had to be an easy way around this problem. But I had a cold and a headache, so I put it on hold until I could think clearly. Or at least as clearly as a well worn 70 year old brain could think. 

Well, the cobwebs cleared and I saw the light. And the light said "You have overslept!" No, I guess it said "It's a bright new day, so get out of bed and fix EpisodeCheck!"  When you're retired you can sleep as long as you want. Anyway, it came to me. It's just so easy! Just implement Add episode, and then you can add dummy episode(s) as needed, Add all discs, and then remove the dummy episode(s). Ta-da! 

So, that's what I did. Just select the episode where you want the dummy episode inserted, right click and select Insert episode. You will see it added with an episode title of ">>> Inserted Episode <<<". Insert as many as needed, and EpisodeCheck will believe this disc has the same number of episodes as all the rest, and Add all disc will work just fine. Then remove them, and Bob's your uncle!

Of course, in the unlikely event that you need to insert a real episode, this works too. Just double click the inserted episode and you can edit it like any other episode.

And have a nice St. Patrick's Day if you're in Ireland, the US, the UK, Canada or wherever that green day is celebrated! Guinness is good for you!

Woe is me! I was taken to task by Karsten for not following proper user interface design guidelines in EpisodeCheck. And to my shame I have to admit that he was 100% right. 

My policy has always been that it's ok to be messy when I build things just for myself, but when I subject others to my programs they should at least adhere to the basic design rules. And I slipped up here. I will make amends! It'll take a little time, though.

In the meantime I have fixed a couple of bugs in version 1.4.1. And I have also added code to check if the help file needs to be unblocked. The reason? See my post Why help files do not always work in Windows in General Discussions.

PS Two minor things that the help file doesn't mention:
- I strip off leading articles from the season names, in order to preserve normal English sort order.
- You have to enter a minumum of three characters in the Season search field.

So if you're watching The OC, your out of luck! Sorry! 

I decide to add the possibility to change the watched date/time by double clicking the field in the episode edit window.

At the same time I noticed a really ugly bug.
When you edited a watched episode the watched date was set to the present date/time.   

So an update to version 1.7.0 is strongly suggested.

Finally just a tip. When episodes have commentaries I usually don't listen to those right away, but rather wait until I have finished watching the season. But sometimes these are not well documented, just a menu choice. So I use the Notes field in EpisodeCheck to note that there is a commentary, and then I can search later for "commentary" to find which episodes had them.