Happy Search 1.5.0

Changed:

• Another overhaul to filtering system, should be much simpler yet more powerful now.

Removed:

• Saving tag/trait filters (As they work a bit differently now).
• Logging in with UserID and Password (You can log in with UserID OR Username and Password).

Happy Search 1.4.8

Changed:

• Complete overhaul on filtering system, now has a variety of filtering options and filters can be saved to be used later.

Improved:

• Updated help files.

Added:

• Go to VNDB page via right click menu.

Fixed:

• Update VN in VN Tab doesn't block connection anymore.
• Changing VN status via right-click menu.
• Changing VN statuses to none.
• Deleting titles from URT list on update (which are no longer in it).

Happy Search 1.4.7.1

Fixed:

• Tiny Database Fix that was breaking fresh installs.

Improved:

• Upgrade titles never upgraded (in tiered update titles functions),
• Backup database prior to upgrading it.

Happy Search 1.4.7

(This release is broken, get 1.4.7.1 or more newer)

Added some language features and some other changes.

For previous users:
To use the new language features, you will have to run:
Update All Data (the normal 'tiered' mode will also update titles never updated and doesn't require you to do the whole thing in one sitting);
Get Producer Languages (which must be done in one sitting but is faster, it can be found in Other Functions).

Added:

• Language support. Flags in VN tiles represent languages of original release, in VN tabs all languages available (up to 6) are shown. List By Language added.
• Update All Data (tiered and all titles), this updates all data on a VN, not just tags/stats/traits.
• Multi-actions: Update Tags/Stats/Traits and All Data.

Fixed and Improved:

• Sorting by wishlist now in proper order ( high > medium > low > blacklist).
• Middle click a vn tab to close it.
• Update VN in tab moved into 'Options' menu.

Happy Search 1.4.5

Mostly changes in VN windows, which are now tabs.

Added:

• VN Options to VN tab
• Display of VN Notes and Groups in VN tab

Changed:

• Double click to open VN tab, it will auto-switch to it unless holding Alt key
• VN windows are now tabs in the main window

Fixed:

• Wait for DB to be free before attempting to load data in VN tab
• VN tab downloads screenshots asynchronously.
• Information tab fits in minimum size window.

Happy Search 1.4.3

New Features:

• Vote with up to 1 decimal place (e.g. 7.6)

Changed:

• User settings are now saved in settings.json in Stored Data folder, instead of saved by windows.
  This means the program will keep all your settings when you move it to a different folder or different computer.
  Saved password is still stored in Windows Registry due to security concerns.

Happy Search Version 1.4.2

New Features:

• Multi-selection (By Ctrl+clicking) and Multi-selection actions, so far only "Remove From DB" which removes titles and associated images from local database.
• Layout changes now accomodate smaller screens and the addition of "Hide Options" Toggle which hides the upper section of the UI in order to show more results. Listing methods have been grouped.

Fixes:

• SQL handling of different number formats.
• No more API commands between SQL transactions which would break on API throttling.

Happy Search v1.4.1

Changes to login procedure, you may now use VNDB username or user ID.

New Features:

• Hide No Release Date (Unreleased Toggle, hides titles without any part of a release date.
• Update Title Data (All) (Other Functions, updates data for all titles, skipping checks in normal method.)

Improved:

• Search for tags/traits with entered text in any position of name or alias.
• Search by name and search by year now only list results in local database by default, click update button to fetch from API. (Currently local search by name doesn't search in aliases.)
• Name and original name now selectable in VN windows.

All help files have been updated.

Happy Search v1.4.0

Many multi-threading and speed optimizations in this release, along with some bug fixes incl. favorite producer ratings and other background changes.
New Features:

• Add notes to titles in your userlist, these are saved to VNDB so you can see them even without Happy Search.
• Add titles in your userlist to your own groups (such as "English" for example), you can then List titles in a certain group. this information is also saved to VNDB.
• The Notes/Groups feature is only available to titles in the user's userlist, by right-clicking a title.
• Tooltips have been added to titles with some information that isn't shown in the tiles.
• Tag and Trait filters can now be toggled between AND mode (the default, lists titles that match the tag filter AND match the trait filter) and OR mode (lists titles that match either the tag filter OR the trait filter, or both, example: tag=chuunibyou heroine OR trait=personality>chuunibyou) toggle mode by clicking the button between the new indicators.
• Tags and trait filters also have indicators now (grey when not in use, red if in use), click them to clear the filters.
• List by Producer can be used to list titles by producers that aren't in local database, it will ask user if they want to search for producer in VNDB, type in the List by Producer box and click on "Update".
• Check for newer releases on program launch and if so, direct user to this page.
• Some command line parameters have been added, mostly to do with debugging, details can be found in "Changelog and more.txt"

To upgrade to this version, simply paste the files in Happy-Search-v1-4-0.zip over your current installation.
Do not delete your Stored Data folder.

Happy Search v1.3.8

All files stored/generated by the program now go in the Stored Data folder, if you are upgrading, place the following files there (if you have them)
tags.json
traits.json
vnImages folder and rename it to Saved Cover Images
vnScreens folder and rename it to Saved Screenshots
dbs.xml
saved_objects.xml
VNDBPC-database.sqlite and rename it to Happy-Search-Local-DB.sqlite

Also the usual amount of bugfixes, incl. in the trait filtering section.