Credit Lookup Plus

What's This?

A front end for the Invelos Credit Lookup Tool (CLT), which presents the CLT data in a more useful manner. Credit Lookup Plus will download the data from the Invelos CLT and display them grouped by common names and original titles.

Terms of Use

• This software is Copyright (c) 2009 Matthias Wolf, Germany AKA goodguy. All rights reserved.
• Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and redistribute this software in unmodified form, for non-commercial purposes, and provided that any use or redistribution retains or reproduces, in the documentation and/or other materials, the copyright notice above, this permission and the following disclaimer.

• DISCLAIMER This software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the author be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.

Feedback

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, you can send a PM to goodguy on the Invelos forums. Alternatively, you can reply to this Invelos forum thread.

Make a Donation!

• Credit Lookup Plus may be used free of charge, but if you wish to express your appreciation for the time and resources I have spent on developing this software, you are welcome to make a donation using one of the following PayPal links:
• Donate in Euros
• Donate in US Dollars

Install Steps

1. Download CLTPlus.zip and unpack it into a dedicated folder.
2. Create a shortcut to the unpacked CLTPlus.hta on your Start Menu or on your desktop.
3. On some systems, the file extension .hta (HTML Application) might not be associated with the Microsoft program mshta.exe. If that's the case, edit the shortcut target to look like this:
   mshta.exe "C:\YourFolder\CLTPlus.hta"

Using Credit Lookup Plus

• Enter a name exactly as credited to find all profiles containing that credit - just as you would do with the original Invelos Credit Lookup Tool (CLT). Press Enter or click the Search button. Credit Lookup Plus will download the data from the Invelos CLT.
• You can save the results of a search into an XML file or load a previously saved result file for display.
• In order to access the Invelos Credit Lookup Tool, you must be permanently signed into the Invelos website using Internet Explorer.
• If you don't normally use Internet Explorer, you may have to repeat your sign-in with Internet Explorer. Make sure you activate the Keep me signed in checkbox.
• If you have just signed in, and you still get an error message when starting a search, exit and restart Credit Lookup Plus.

Configuring Search Options

• To customize settings that affect the search performance and the user interaction in case of errors, click the Options link near the Search button. You can do this anytime, even if a search is already in progress.
• The initial settings are pretty conservative, but should be suitable in most cases. If you set the number of parallel downloads too high, chances are that an increased number of download failures outweights the possible performance gain.
• If you enter non-zero values into the Auto-retry fields, Credit Lookup Plus will automatically retry failed requests the specified number of times without prompting you to take action.

Customizing Display Options

• You can change various display settings by clicking the Customize link at the top of the lower (or right) result pane. The result panes become visible after you finished a search, or when you load a previously saved result file.
• Split window
  Tiles the result panes either vertically or horizontally. Alternatively, you can quickly toggle between both modes by double-clicking the divider between the panes.
• Font size
  Lets you choose either a small, a normal, or a large font for display.
• Show credited name in title bar
  This is useful if you run multiple instances of Credit Lookup Plus to search for credit variations.
• Auto-collapse title/profile...
  This keeps large tables more managable by ensuring that only the most recent entry is expanded.
• Show cover in profile details
  This will show the front cover along with the credits if you expand a profile entry. Clicking on the cover will open a new Internet Explorer window and navigate to the profile in the original Invelos CLT. If there is no cover or if you choose not to display it, a simple text link will offer the same functionality.
• Show [credited as] in profile details
  Since you searched for a name exactly as credited, the bracketed name will always be the same regardless of different common names. But if you are interested in minor capitalization differences or simply prefer the Invelos way of displaying these data, you can activate this option.
• Columns
  Lets you choose the columns to be shown. Title and Year will always be shown and you have to pick at least one additional column from the available ones.

Known Issues

• The number of titles reported by the Invelos CLT and by Credit Lookup Plus may differ slightly. That's because Credit Lookup Plus has to guess which parts of the title actually belong into the Edition field, whereas the Invelos CLT already knows that.
• Clicking on a cover in the profile details displayed by Credit Lookup Plus will let you navigate to these details on the original Invelos CLT website. However, sometimes you will find that the Invelos CLT will show a different profile instead. This can happen if the Invelos Online database has changed since you did run the search. The older your search results are, the more likely this is to happen.
• If the Microsoft Common Dialog Control (commdlg32.ocx) is not installed, you will not be able to load and save XML result files. As a workaround, Credit Lookup Plus will let you use the clipboard to copy and paste the XML result data. If you use a text editor to save such data to a file, make sure you choose either Unicode or UTF-8 encoding.

Version History

• v1.0.0: First public release.