Search video actors with Google
This text will show you step by step how to add a custom button in Fast Video cataloger that will let you google results for the currently selected actor.
Custom Actions in Fast video cataloger allow you to easily extend the functionality.
You can extend the program to launch web pages, launch external programs, or for more advanced scenarios launch c# scripts with full access to the complete video database.
In this example, I will show how you can search google on the currently selected Actor.
The basic Googles URL for searches is this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=
The text after q= is the query, and if you have more than one term just use a + in between them.
In Fast video cataloger, go to preferences and to the Action Tab.
Action tab in preferences
Click “Add” to create a new action.
On the first tab, Enter “Google Actor” as a label. And for tooltip enter “Google the selected Actor”
Title for the actor search button
Click on the “Execute” tab and change the drop-down list to “Web Page”
For URL Enter: https://www.google.com/search
site of the the search engine
Click the Arguments tab.
For arguments enter : q={actor_firstname}+{actor_lastname}
Enter the url arguments to pass in the first and last name of the actor.
Click OK to close the window. And ok again to close the preferences.
From the view menu, open the Action window.
Open the “Custom Actions” expander and you should have a button “Google Actor”
The new search actor button is in the action window.
Select an Actor in the Actor window, click the “Google Actor” button and the browser window in fast video cataloger should show you the result.