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I think it's time to stop the code for a moment and focus on documentation a bit. I see people are downloading the binary but I doubt everybody can start right away easily. Therefore, in the next days I'll propose a dedicated package that will include some test files with their respective filters and regexes to let understand the modus operandi.

DL

The 1.0 is out. Not shiny as it should, but functional enough to be stable and usable.
You can have the minimal usage to be able to rename files easily with filters and regexes.
Could be some users will insert additional filters that could be shared for everyone here with just a commit.

Anyway, some work remains to have those TODOs (in the version log ) achieved.

Some improvements have been done to the core functionnalities that let the application be stable enougth to let focus now on GUI matters. In the way, this allows to clarify logic behavior and then have additionals ideas like log and MD5 for each file (see today todo list). Files Cleaner is not complete yet but let people use it. I've also added a annotated screenshot to let understand what order to follow, even tough no documentation explain it yet. The provided example .ini file may give some clues btw.

While beginning is already done from weeks now, I thought it was about time to keep tracks by putting some code here.
Indeed, current developement status is still Beta but fundamental capabilities are here and working:

• be able to clean up keywords from a filename
• these keywords are split in 2 categories : Filters and regular expressions
• while this main function is working and represent the core of all of this, I think it would be better to hide it "behind the scene" as user doesn't much care about it.
• These keywords can be saved in a file. An easy and human .ini style format have been chosen to let anyone modify it through sections(groups) and key/value pairs. The section are currently : [Filters] and [Regex] but later on it will also be used to keep user preferences.
• The keyword list is using the Model-View-Delegate D. pattern so view can be list/tree/Grid whatever.
• StandardItemModel have been used so icons can be added to the list... read more