Alright so with the posting of Ark's software and my last post I decided to change directions with this application. It no longer pulls set data information and makes spoilers. I never have like the way the HQ set list has been maintained and always thought its a pain to try and find most any older sets. I also took things into account as far as performance is concerned with the HTA form of this application and went with a compiled route. Here are some screenshots of the application as it sits right now in development of the compiled form:
The way this is written you can create a custom setinfo file that contains some of the setinformation such as setname setabbr hqmedia fire url shares (crop and full). You also have a configuration file that contains applications settings that can be configured such as app menu drop down options, window labeling etc. Currently the application will assist users in downloading card images for the magic workstation, magic album, and wagic applications placing the pictures in the respective application folder structure and file naming scheme. Also when using the high image quality will open the media sharing page link and display a box indicating exactly were to save the file to (you can simply copy and past from the window into the save as window!). Once done the application expands the file and processes the images accordingly. So far it seems to be working how ever there are a few things to point out.
1.) When using high image quality the various zip's and rar's do not contain all the expected card images which can cause the program to fail to process that particular set. For example the zip may contain an incorrectly named image file OR the set data on the gatherer includes tokens and no tokens exist in the zip.
2.) There are a number of crop media sharing links that are dead / broken. Obviously if you cant get the file it wont work for that set so using the "all sets after" with high quality settings is somewhat useless.
What do you guys think? Something usefull? At the very least users can use this to pull HQ zip files in a more orderly fashion. If you use the low quality option it pulls the image off the gatherer and even will detect if a card image is just a card backing and warn you. (original functionality of the application). Let me know.