Overlapping Panels - Brilliant desgin! C'mon Ken - why not allow us to assign you "stars" as well?  It might be a fun way to throw a few Kudos your way from time to time ... You could reset them every day, so you would have good days and bad days ... heh heh ...

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Quoting mediadogg:

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Overlapping Panels - Brilliant desgin! C'mon Ken - why not allow us to assign you "stars" as well?  It might be a fun way to throw a few Kudos your way from time to time ... You could reset them every day, so you would have good days and bad days ... heh heh ...

I'm not sure my overall count would be positive.  

And isn't there someone fishing for compliments??       

An Update

I think I have an idea of what is going on.

First off, is there a "manual" on creating reports?  The help section on reports, IMHO, is severly lacking in how to create reports.  Specifically as to what a panel is what what its function is supposed to be.  I just went searching all of the tabs and while hovering over various images, discovered one that was labeled as a panel.

The report I'm trying to modify doesn't appear to use panels, which is why I was having the issues noted in the above posting.  This report not having panels make sense, since it was created pre-3.6.

As suggested, in order to get region coding to display the right image, a panel is created and set tor the media type.  That will get the right region 0 code image.

But, region codes A, B, C, AB, AC and BC are going to be extremely complicated.  There is going to be a Forum Moderator: Removed of convoluted cascading going on to display one of the 6 mentioned region codes.  It would be a thousand times easier if there were 6 choices.  Before you say that there are 6 Blu-ray region choices, they are not currently unique (bug?).  The problem is that if you set an element to be equal to region code A/B, three conditions are met.  The condition for region code A and region code B and region code A/B are all met and all three images will be displayed.

The image for region code A should ONLY be displayed if the set is marked as being region A and should not be displayed if the set is marked as being regions A/B, as that is a separate image.

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Here, a few stars for Ken



btw. Profiler don't want to open the report Ken added. Tells me to save it and then open, but even then it won't work, and telling me the same.

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If you examine the report, you'll see it has one panel with a condition set to BD Media type.  On this panel are seven text objects, one each for the possible BD region combinations.  They are stacked in order from back to front: A, B, C, A/B, A/C, B/C, and A/B/C (0).

Sorry about the above.  Frustration and I pulled a muscle last night and it was hurting when I was posting.

When I was initially putting together changes to the report to display the BD region codes, I did exactly what you described.  Just because of the way that I did them, which was in the order listed above, they got stacked in the above order.  At that time I didn't expect the conditions to be satisfied like they are.

I had posted the result of that report creation.  In a nutshell, the problem was that when the region was A/B, the A image was partically showing at the top and bottom, because the A/B image is not the same physical dimension as the A, B or C image.

By BD logo specification, there are separate images for the 7 possible conditions.  IMHO, there is therefore no need to have A, B and A/B coditionals be true if the media is region A/B, as there is only one "legal" logo for region A/B.

So, I'm curious as to why all three conditional are true (oops actually four, with A/B/C added to the mix).

I've not researched DVD logos, but AFAIK, there are no official multi-region labels, so having each of the conditionals be true makes perfect sense.  But, BD region logos are unique.

In order to get this to work, with the minimal number of cascades, I'll have to rework the images so that they are all square.

I don't know if there are other conditionals like this, which means that any images created would have to have the same aspect ratio.

Thanks for the info, as I'm learning more and more about the report generator and DVD Profiler in general.

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The reason they evaluate to true is to allow for different style reports - for instance three side-by-side graphics of A, B, and C.

OK, thanks.  Even though doing this would create reports using BD region code images in a manner not part of the spec.  Ya, I know, the BD legal beagles are not going to come down on users who use the region code images in any manner they choose.  I guess I'm just a stickler for using such images as they were intended.

I'll go back and rework the images so that they all have the same aspect ratio so that any of the region code images will 100% cover any of the other BD region code images.

A little side note question about the element listing.  Is there a way to get that sorted alphabetically?

I'm also assuming that sooner or later there will be a help description of the new panels and their intent.