E P I S O D E   B R O W S E R
d o c u m e n t a t i o n

Introduction
Episode Browser is a simple graphical program that offers an interface to episodes of TV series stored on the local hard drive. It offers ways of keeping track of watched and unwatched episodes, as well as fetching episode information from the internet.

Backend
The fundamental features of Episode Browser, such as detecing and keeping track of local episodes, fetching information from the internet and interacting with the MPC-HC media player, are implemented in Prolog (see the pl folder).

At the time of writing, the backend implementation is tightly coupled to the author's specific system. To be used for anything else than episodes of Detective Conan stored in a specific folder on the hard drive, the predicates defined in local_episodes.pl must be modified and the program recompiled. To fetch episode information from other sources than Detective Conan World, the episode_data.pl file must be modified.

Frontend
The graphical interface is implemented in C using the Win32 API (see the c folder). The source code is spread across a small number of files. For an overview of the functions provided by each file, see defs.h. In summary:

main.c			Entry point and initialization. Contains the main event handler.
listview.c		Creates and handles the shared aspects of the two list views.
episodelistview.c	Defines the interface to the episode list view.
datalistview.c		Defines the interface to the data list view.
common.c		Some useful functions that don't fit elsewhere.

The frontend interacts with the Prolog backend via the SWI-Prolog API. Note, however, that most interaction is done through ten or so macros, defined in defs.h, that make the code easier to write – and read, once you're used to it.

Building
Episode Browser is built with swipl-ld, which is installed with SWI-Prolog. It is a wrapper around a C compiler and linker, which in Episode Browser's case happens to be GCC. The author personally uses the MinGW toolchain conveniently included with Strawberry Perl.

To build Episode Browser, you may use Build.bat and Run.bat.