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Columns UI

Reply #3900 –
Nice new features musicmusic  I'm playing around with the updated NG playlist and I was wondering if it will be possible in a next release to define some extra vertical padding to the group headers or to have it occupy two lines for instance.
Thanks for the great work

Columns UI

Reply #3901 –
Quote from: mil3s on
Ah, thank you.  Now the playlist looks really good.

Some additional thoughts.
* In fields that align text to the right. When the text is longer than the cell width itself the text gets cut. Would it be possible to force this cell to align the text left and truncate (...) on the right?
* Different group settings for different playlists, with the option to turn it off when needed (in mixed playlists for example).

NG playlist is turning out awesome so far. Keep up the good work.

1. Yes I never got around to implementing the ellipsis symbol for non left aligned text in my text renderer. It would have to stay right aligned otherwise it would look odd. The only question is which side to truncate. I would prefer truncating from the right (...truncated text) because I think it would look a bit better (and not act strangely when resizing columns). You can use tooltips to see full text anyway (which are probably not properly positioned for non-left aligned columns atm) [edit] Hmm.. I guess I better just do whatever the column header does.
2. You can do it with the playlist filters on the group settings page. Separate multiple playlist names with a semi-colon and you can use asterisks and question marks (as I remember..)

Quote from: joen on
Nice new features musicmusic  I'm playing around with the updated NG playlist and I was wondering if it will be possible in a next release to define some extra vertical padding to the group headers or to have it occupy two lines for instance.
Thanks for the great work
Hi, probably something along those lines later.
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Columns UI

Reply #3902 –
Feature requests:
- Access to %_back% and other style variables from "Variables" Globals tab. I'm tweaking Lyx' Navigator Suite and I'd like to add choice to use "preferences" colours.
- Autolplaylist filter panel functionality.
- "Omit leading "the" for artist related fields.
And the one for which I'm ready to hear "no way" answer, though I'd love seeing it implemented sometime:
- Filter panels/selections OR, XOR, AND, NOT linking. Probably on the fly using key+click or trigger buttons. Combined with autoplaylist functionality.
Sharing delusions since 1991.

Columns UI

Reply #3903 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
1. Yes I never got around to implementing the ellipsis symbol for non left aligned text in my text renderer. It would have to stay right aligned otherwise it would look odd. The only question is which side to truncate. I would prefer truncating from the right (...truncated text) because I think it would look a bit better (and not act strangely when resizing columns). You can use tooltips to see full text anyway (which are probably not properly positioned for non-left aligned columns atm) [edit] Hmm.. I guess I better just do whatever the column header does.
2. You can do it with the playlist filters on the group settings page. Separate multiple playlist names with a semi-colon and you can use asterisks and question marks (as I remember..)

1. Yea, you are right. It should stay right aligned. I don't understand where you wanted to truncate though. You say right but in the parenthesis the dots are on the left.  Imo the dots should always be on the right.
2. Oh, interesting. Would be nice with an easier way though. Like from a rightclick menu (Group by > Don't group / User scipts...)


Is there a %_count% for Globals style that reset on every group? For example every first track in a group %_count% = 0.
Will there be a columns_ui equivalent of the elements_ui album art panel? (borderless)

Columns UI

Reply #3904 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
That relates to intended behaviour.
I found the discussion earlier in this topic, sorry for the duplicate.

Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Hakubo on
Somehow I don't feel like disabling autosend, with its speed and all.  At least while there's no option to add tracks to the current playlist with a single click.
But maybe an option to not autosend until there's something selected in all of the fields will be useful.
I was going to make it not autosend when you right click a item, it's not great behaviour.
I understood that, and I hope you do.
It was just a thought about how one would be able to use both autosend and add to current playlist features without having to disable the former in the prefs each time he chooses to use the latter.

Columns UI

Reply #3905 –
One more feature request.
Ability to set unused playlist area colour from global style tab. Feels much more convenient than changing corresponding colour in Preferences.

PS: Or is it implemented already?
Sharing delusions since 1991.

Columns UI

Reply #3907 –
I have a feature request that I haven't seen anyone ask yet. I was wondering if it were possible to do a 'scroll by letter' feature sort of like the ipod has. What I am talking about is how if you start to scroll faster for a longer peroid of time (maybe 3 or 4 fast mouse wheel scrolls in a row?) a little box will pop up with a letter in it; A, B, C, D, etc. Then once this box has popped up, a scroll with the wheel would cycle through the letters. Then when you stop scrolling, the playlist would be focused on the first entry that starts with that letter.

Now I know there are different fields (artist, album, title etc) and I can think of a few ways to handle that:

1. You could have the mouse "know" what field it is hovering over in the playlist, and it would search by letter in that field. Then moving to another field would search that one, etc.

2. You could set it up in the settings to only search a single field.

I don't know how feasible this is, but I think it would be particularly useful for larger playlists .
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

Columns UI

Reply #3908 –
And another feature request. Middle click on Filter selection sends result to New Playlist, if selection was single then playlist is named similar to it. If (when) autoplaylist functionality is implemented such playlists are created as autoplaylists (configurable).

PS: Just noticed that instead of dragging I'm using middle click like in Firefox
Sharing delusions since 1991.

Columns UI

Reply #3909 –
Keikonium
Your idea is nice, but the problem is, that a playlist is not alway sorted alphabetically. But it would be useful to implement this for the filter (facets replacement) component.

Columns UI

Reply #3910 –
Feature request: search window to use columns ui configuration instead of default ui.
Sharing delusions since 1991.

Columns UI

Reply #3911 –
Quote from: Slotos on
Feature request: search window to use columns ui configuration instead of default ui.


What do you mean exactly? A search bar like Facets has? There's already foo_uie_quicksearch which searches through the database and/or playlists.

Columns UI

Reply #3912 –
Search window uses Default UI configuration. So one can't configure it without double foobar restart. There are two obvious ways to fix it:
- Default UI configuration is available even when Columns UI is activated.
- Search window uses Columns UI configuration.
Sharing delusions since 1991.

Columns UI

Reply #3913 –
Is there a way to get grouping information for playlist item? Like if it is grouped, total count of group members and position in group.
Sharing delusions since 1991.
 

Columns UI

Reply #3914 –
Quote from: Slotos on
Feature requests:
- Access to %_back% and other style variables from "Variables" Globals tab. I'm tweaking Lyx' Navigator Suite and I'd like to add choice to use "preferences" colours.
- Autolplaylist filter panel functionality.
- "Omit leading "the" for artist related fields.
And the one for which I'm ready to hear "no way" answer, though I'd love seeing it implemented sometime:
- Filter panels/selections OR, XOR, AND, NOT linking. Probably on the fly using key+click or trigger buttons. Combined with autoplaylist functionality.

1. You can access global vars in the style string, I would go with that approach.
2. Possibly in the future, I will look into it.
3. Noted.
4. I don't think those will really work with the hierarchical linking. Anyway, not really any plans for anything like that..

Quote from: mil3s on
Is there a %_count% for Globals style that reset on every group? For example every first track in a group %_count% = 0.
Do you mean the index in the group?

Quote from: Slotos on
One more feature request.
Ability to set unused playlist area colour from global style tab. Feels much more convenient than changing corresponding colour in Preferences.

PS: Or is it implemented already?
The string is only evaluated on a level related to some track(s) in the playlist, and I am not sure I want that to change.

Quote from: Keikonium on
I have a feature request that I haven't seen anyone ask yet. I was wondering if it were possible to do a 'scroll by letter' feature sort of like the ipod has. What I am talking about is how if you start to scroll faster for a longer peroid of time (maybe 3 or 4 fast mouse wheel scrolls in a row?) a little box will pop up with a letter in it; A, B, C, D, etc. Then once this box has popped up, a scroll with the wheel would cycle through the letters. Then when you stop scrolling, the playlist would be focused on the first entry that starts with that letter.

Now I know there are different fields (artist, album, title etc) and I can think of a few ways to handle that:

1. You could have the mouse "know" what field it is hovering over in the playlist, and it would search by letter in that field. Then moving to another field would search that one, etc.

2. You could set it up in the settings to only search a single field.

I don't know how feasible this is, but I think it would be particularly useful for larger playlists .
In NG Playlist you can type a letter to jump to it, though it is based on the first column only. Same applies to filter panel. I don't think displaying the letter like that is useful when you have a keyboard..

Quote from: Slotos on
And another feature request. Middle click on Filter selection sends result to New Playlist, if selection was single then playlist is named similar to it. If (when) autoplaylist functionality is implemented such playlists are created as autoplaylists (configurable).

PS: Just noticed that instead of dragging I'm using middle click like in Firefox
I will add probably some actions for middle/double click similar to album list panel.

Quote from: Slotos on
Feature request: search window to use columns ui configuration instead of default ui.

Quote from: Slotos on
Search window uses Default UI configuration. So one can't configure it without double foobar restart. There are two obvious ways to fix it:
- Default UI configuration is available even when Columns UI is activated.
- Search window uses Columns UI configuration.

I can't really fix this myself. Only thing I could possibly do is add a playlist search built-in to Columns UI. I think you need to ask Peter on the exact future of the standard playlist search command. It may be an oversight that it can't be configured outside of the default UI, or maybe he wants the active UI to provide its own search command. That deserves lots of dots............................

Quote from: Slotos on
Is there a way to get grouping information for playlist item? Like if it is grouped, total count of group members and position in group.
No not currently for various reasons. It's not particularly trivial to implement.
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Reply #3915 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
You can access global vars in the style string, I would go with that approach.

I'm trying save theming feature of Navigator, but with this approach I'll end up either leaving "colours and fonts" unused or checking if it is used in almost every column style string. Makes config unreadable and hard to understand for other person. If I could set global variables in global styles or $put style vars in global variables I'd end up having much more clean configuration.
Sharing delusions since 1991.

Columns UI

Reply #3917 –
hi,

is it possible to set only the font-size of the group headers (artist - album) bigger?

thx

Columns UI

Reply #3918 –
Hi all and thanks musicmusic for this great ui.


Now the real question:

when do we see playlist-embedded album arts ?




and what about more flexible panels (no edges at all, possibility to superpose them)?

thanks again, you truly have all my support.

Columns UI

Reply #3921 –
Hi musicmusic,

Not sure if this has already been reported but I'm having apparent redrawing issues of components upon resizing of the window. This only happens when these components are nested 2nd level ( img: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5345/redrawcl3.jpg ) inside the layout.

Also, when I set caption orientation to vertical and try to resize the window, the caption text doesn't refresh/redraw. This however happens always, despite of how the components are nested.

I figured this could be related to the fact that I am running Windows XP x64 SP2, so there could be some incompatibility issues.

I'm using v0.9.5 beta 6 w/ columns_ui v0.2.1 alpha 8 v3.

Columns UI

Reply #3922 –
0.2.1 alpha 9 released. See changelog for details..

Quote from: wolver1ne on
Hi musicmusic,

Not sure if this has already been reported but I'm having apparent redrawing issues of components upon resizing of the window. This only happens when these components are nested 2nd level ( img: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5345/redrawcl3.jpg ) inside the layout.
Did you set the seekbar to 'Locked' (or even the parent splitter)?

Quote from: wolver1ne on
Also, when I set caption orientation to vertical and try to resize the window, the caption text doesn't refresh/redraw. This however happens always, despite of how the components are nested.
Seems that was only the case with visual themes disabled (since forever..?). I fixed the bug in alpha 9.
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Reply #3923 –
Thanks for the update musicmusic .

I have a question tho:

Where are the settings for NGPL? I don't know how to edit the vertical padding, or the font, or anything like that that you added to the alpha 9 release. Also, my panel looks sunk in, even tho edge style is set to none (for the CUI playlist, I have no options for the NGPL).

Thanks in advance for any help.
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #3924 –
Quote from: Keikonium on
Where are the settings for NGPL? I don't know how to edit the vertical padding, or the font, or anything like that that you added to the alpha 9 release.
Just use the normal 'Playlist view' settings.

Quote from: Keikonium on
Also, my panel looks sunk in, even tho edge style is set to none (for the CUI playlist, I have no options for the NGPL).
I don't think anything has changed there with Columns Playlist. Screenshot maybe? No, NGPV doesn't use that setting yet...
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