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Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Heya!

Sorry if this has been asked before. I did have a good search, but little came up!

I've been wanting to try and set up a dark foobar look, but I'm rather new to the program. I just gave it a shot to see how far I could get and I can get most of it in a dark colour, but buttons panel, menu panel and scrollbars are still grey. I can find no place to change this! My setup so far is CUI where at the base I have one panel stack splitter, then three vertical columns under that populated with various panels.

Check out : SCREENSHOT

Obviously the above is just a test and not an actual finished layout, but it shows the troubles I'm having! What can I do?

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #1 –
you can use panel stack splitter, then set it bg to black you can achieve what you want with little more work:
- for buttons it's easy: add button toolbar on PSS as set bg
- for menu I'll suggest WSH panel mod, as you can add it on black PSS, but also text would be black so useless, but you can also make menu in PSS
- for NG scrollbars you should reduce PSS width to $sub(%_width%,18) or similar, so that you won't see them
- as for tabs, I guess you'll have some idea if you try above

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #2 –
Awesome! Thanks, I've tried this out and most of it works perfectly.

As you probably suspected, I figured out how to replace tabs with custom button graphics and that works nicely.

However, I'm still having a little problem making the scrollbars disappear. I think I understand what your suggestion does - it subtracts 18 pixels from the overall width, but where do I put that in? Is this the place?

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #3 –
for NG playlist, try this:
left: 0
Top: 0
width: $add(%_width%,18)
height: %_height%

but from you screenshot it seems you use ELPlaylist which has in it settings option for disabling scrollbars AFAIK

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #4 –
Thanks again, that solved a couple more mysteries

Actually, I was mistaken about the buttons and the tab stack. It seems buttons won't be able to replace them the way I had hoped I could do it, so is there a way to change the tab stack colour as well? I have a feeling it should involve simply putting it in a PSS, but doing so seems to do little!

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #5 –
you can use foo_uie_tabs component for tabs and hide them then assign to buttons
also you can do all that only with PSS, but this way is easier

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #6 –
Quote from: 2E7AH on
you can use foo_uie_tabs component for tabs and hide them then assign to buttons
also you can do all that only with PSS, but this way is easier


Thank you again, you've been amazingly helpful

Everything has worked out and I've only one slight problem left. There's a big, grey bar at the bottom and I can't find out where I fiddle with it. It has a volume control in it and tells me how many items I've selected. It's not the status bar, but it's right above it. I'm thinking it's real easy and I'm just being an idiot. Anyways, what is this area called and where do you control it?

In this screenie, you can see the grey area I'm thinking of right at the bottom of my foobar.

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #7 –
you've grayed PSS bg and put menu as it is - good idea, looks nice. now go to "menu > view" and untick "show status pane" (don't worry, many user reported the same problem )
also:
- you can change the width of the bars on spectrum so they fit the panel
- codec icon doesn't seem good, maybe improperly resized/rotated?

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #8 –
Quote from: 2E7AH on
you've grayed PSS bg and put menu as it is - good idea, looks nice. now go to "menu > view" and untick "show status pane" (don't worry, many user reported the same problem )
also:
- you can change the width of the bars on spectrum so they fit the panel
- codec icon doesn't seem good, maybe improperly resized/rotated?


Hah! Status pane, that's it  Thanks again!

Now I'm pretty much done except for little jobs like tidying up the icons you mentioned. There's just one more thing which is not crucial but that I'd like to look into. You helped me out with the tab stacks, but do you know of a similar way to customize the look of playlist tabs?

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #9 –
no, without changing windows visual style
you might try using playlist switcher or playlist dropdown for switching between playlists instead playlist tabs, or just use library tree

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #11 –
maybe you miss libpng and zlib libraries: http://yuo.be/columns.php

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #13 –
Quote from: 2E7AH on
no, without changing windows visual style
you might try using playlist switcher or playlist dropdown for switching between playlists instead playlist tabs, or just use library tree


I ended up tabbing a playlist viewer out of sight

There's a lot of tweaks that can be done, but with your help I've managed to overcome the problems I had. I'm quite satisfied with the result although I do miss the scrollbar :



(The ELPlaylist script and track mod info scripts first came from elsewhere and are not customized by myself from the ground up!)

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #14 –
Quote from: tore on
I ended up tabbing a playlist viewer out of sight

You don' need to place playlist view under playlist tab - just add your ELPlaylist instead playlist tabs and not beneath it
That's if I understood correctly what you've done

Columns UI: Button / Menu / Scrollbar Colours!

Reply #15 –
Quote from: 2E7AH on
Quote from: tore on
I ended up tabbing a playlist viewer out of sight

You don' need to place playlist view under playlist tab - just add your ELPlaylist instead playlist tabs and not beneath it
That's if I understood correctly what you've done


Ah, what I meant is I made a hidden tab stack accessible by buttons. In the screenie, above the library tree on the left hand side, it says "LIB | PLS" which refers to whether you want to see the library or the playlists (playlist view). Usually, I have it set to view library which is why I said I'd hidden it! Not quite as good as playlist tabs, but it works.