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Formatting string specifying background color

I think formatting strings should be able to specify the text *background* color in the same way they can specify the foreground color. If not that, at least the color for the list item instead of each character.

Is there any reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be implemented? It could be useful for highlighting the current song in a more obvious way (unless I'm the only one who thinks changing the text color can't draw very much attention without affecting readability). It could also highlight songs without tags, songs below a certain bitrate, etc.

Formatting string specifying background color

Reply #1 –
AFAIK you can't specify different line colours in the control used for displaying the playlist
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Formatting string specifying background color

Reply #2 –
Check out ZiY0N's string in the Title Formatting thread, I think something like that does a great job of drawing attention to the currently playing song.

Formatting string specifying background color

Reply #3 –
No, you can't specify line colors in the standard windows listbox control. However, you also can't use different colors for different characters, nor can you right-align text. Foobar does both of these. So foobar is already doing some kind of custom drawing. The fact that the right aligned text covers up the left aligned text with the background color, as opposed to overlapping (which is what the windows API functions for text drawing do) suggests that foobar is already drawing at least part of the background manually as well.