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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: mwgilbert on May 17, 2003, 06:19:37 am

Title: Starting in Album View?
Post by: mwgilbert on May 17, 2003, 06:19:37 am

Has anyone yet figured out a way to have MC start in the Album View mode?

Some time ago it was deemed not possible, but I haven't looked/tried/inquired in a long while.

Title: Re: Starting in Album View?
Post by: RhinoBanga on May 17, 2003, 11:47:14 am

In MC go to Tools/Options/Startup and change "Start In" to "Last Location".

Since I mostly always use AV this works just fine.

But it's funny since this works and takes me straight to AV when MC starts I can't see why J River can't put any registered plugin on the dropdown as well.

Title: Re: Starting in Album View?
Post by: mwgilbert on May 17, 2003, 03:05:59 pm

Thanks. I support the concept of being able to start a registered plugin. I also wondered why there is the option to start MC on the plugins page.

Your solution, however, works for me  ;)

Title: Re: Starting in Album View?
Post by: KingSparta on May 17, 2003, 03:21:57 pm

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I support the concept of being able to start a registered plugin.

I do and I Don't

what would happen if there was a problem in the plug-in and every time you load MC9 it crashed.

unless j rver could trap the error and dump you back into "Start" or somthing it may be a bad idea.

Title: Re: Starting in Album View?
Post by: nila on May 17, 2003, 07:18:14 pm

King - whats the difference between that and it starting in last location if the plugin fails?

Either way it'll keep trying to load on the plugin.

Title: Re: Starting in Album View?
Post by: Bartabedian on May 17, 2003, 07:30:43 pm

Yep, and I've even had the problem with a corrupt av2 file. MC just kept crashing upon startup as I always start in av (last used). Had to move the corrupt av2 file, then start MC, then build a new av2. nbd.

Title: Re: Starting in Album View?
Post by: RhinoBanga on May 18, 2003, 12:05:20 am

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I do and I Don't

what would happen if there was a problem in the plug-in and every time you load MC9 it crashed.

Well there are two very simple solutions to that:

1)  In C++ there is a thing called Try/Catch which will allow you to trap (most) crashes.

If the plugin got an error while loading J River could just set the new start location as the "Plugins" page in the registry.


2)  Upon MC startup they could see that the starting page is a plugin, write back to the registry that the starting place is the plugins page (in case of a crash) and if the user goes to the options screen or exits normally they can write the proper location back to the registry.


Neither of which is rocket science.

Title: Re: Starting in Album View?
Post by: KingSparta on May 18, 2003, 03:35:32 am

well that sounds good

kind of like safe mode with wndows and not allow the plugins to load.