the problem was that the format of the internal links were changed.
I used string manipulation to build a flat file database
of folders and files.
and I also saved each titles image that was connected to
a title for display purposes when the title was displayed.
I had the images stored in the database.
there was a point where the description of the title was also
stored in the image through pixel manipulation.
I used pixel values to represent the stored data in the images.
so the program would load the image into a picturebox then
decrypt the data from the image and then display the data
within a separate picturebox along with the original image
loaded into it.
and this served as the users visual representation of the
title.
this made reading the data really difficult so I 80sixed it.
I notice that netflix has something similar to this these days
only the data is not embedded into the image itself.
it hovers over the image and is also really hard to read
unless you select the text and highlight it.
the benefits of the program to netflix would have been
that the images or descriptions would not need to be
downloaded every time that a user needed to view the image
and description using the program which would have saved
netflix a really large amount of bandwidth cost.
also the program had the ability to store titles in folders that represent the titles category such as drama , scifi , horror , etc or create his own category such as monday , tuesday , wednesday , thursday ... etc.
it was the inability of a user to store titles in folders
that caused me to build the program in the first place.
sifting through or trying to arrange the allowed 500 titles in you netflix list can be a real pain and the program I built did not have a limit as to the number of titles that you could store within the folders on your computer.
but the only thing I need to fix is the actual string manipulation of the URL of the title.
the URL is the only part of any netflix code that I use.
Im just waiting a few months to see if the URL's become stable
before I fix it.
I may have to add a start up routine that examines the netflix URL's and decides if an internal change to the program is needed and then makes the needed change to the program before the program tries to utilize the netflix data.
oh nooo I only use the microsoft help files when I need to
find a way to do something in VB.
ROLF
why would anyone want to spend only a few minutes looking in
the forums for needed programming information when they could
spend all day or even weeks reading the microsoft help files
before they find that they will most likely need to look in
the forums to actually find the needed information.
why fix your own lawnmower when it breaks down when theres a
guy at the repair shop who will keep it a whole month before he releases it.
if you fix it yourself , then you have to cut the grass that month.
