foo_uie_playlists_dropdown, Playlists Dropdown - Columns UI Extension Options

[mixcherry]

Playlists Dropdown v0.7.6

This plugin displays the playlists in a dropdown list:


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Playlists Dropdown

Source code
github.com/karolsarnacki/foo_uie_playlists_dropdown

Some features:

• Customizable icons.
• Configurable playlist titles on list.
• Configurable fonts and colors.
• Sorting playlists by various criteria.
• Drag & Drop support.
• Convenient context-menu.

The list can display various information about playlists (through formatting strings):

• %title% Name of the playlist.
• %lock% Present if the playlist is locked (returns name of the lock, for example Autoplaylist or Read-only).
• %size% Number of items (songs) the playlist contains.
• %length% Playlist's length (duration), formatted as [WK][D][HH:]MM:SS.
• %length_hours% Playlist's length (duration), formatted as [HH:]MM:SS.
• %length_seconds% Playlist's length (duration), in seconds, formatted as an integer.
• %filesize_natural% Formatted total filesize of the playlist (e.g. 62.1GB or 322KB).
• %filesize% Total filesize of the playlist in bytes
• %isplaying% Present if the playlist is currently being played (to be used as a switch for $if()).
• %isactive% Present if the playlist is active (to be used as a switch for $if()).
• %list_index% Index of the playlist.
• %list_total% Total number of playlists.
• %_list% Special field to separate rendering of control (when it's closed) and the list (to be used as a switch for $if()).

Changelog

• v0.7.6
• v0.7.5.2
• v0.7.5

To-do list

• Customizable overlay icons / Use overlays for locked playlists (?) (0.7.7)
• Auto-assigning icons to playlists using their name/lock/size etc. (titleformatting?) (0.7.8)
• In-place rename (0.7.9)
• Panel version (0.8)
• Button version (0.8.1)
• D&D playlists/items inside listbox using LMB
• Better separators (without empy playlists)
• Text on separators
• Use global variables from Columns UI
• Option to center text
• FCL import/export (?)
• Configurable action on playlist delete (go to previously active) (core?)
• Aggregate functions ($avg('%field%'), $sum(), $min(), $max(), $count()) (?)
• Playlist filtering (?)
• Different configurations for different panels (??)
• Grouping (???)

The Not-to-do list
Please do not discuss / request this:

• None / Sunken / Grey border
• Make combo-box editable (e.g. to type and find a playlist)

This post has been edited by mixcherry: Sep 21 2012, 06:15

[mixcherry]

It 's not hard to see this probleme appear, just resize the seekbar, first far from your plugin (i.e. 5-10 pixels of grey comming from your panel) then stick the seekbar to your plugin, and try to expand the dropdown menu (Try 2 or 3 times if it does not work the first)

Thank you! I finally managed to generate this problem!! (thanks to your description) This is rather hard to fix, because the bug occurs kind of randomly :/ ouch...

To all people who have this problem with 'sometimes-not-showing-dropdown-list'. Please, mark the 'Set max height' option (on my plugin's Preferences page) -> you'll have to reset foobar! Does the problem steel occur when the option 'Set max height' is turned ON?

some customization of the divider (line color, height, background ...) and maybe checkbox + editbox "use this titleformatting to draw the divider"

The divider-line would have to be the same height as all other dropdown lines - that's because I use CBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED window style (and not CBS_OWNERDRAWVARIABLE), if you know what I mean For non-developer, this means that all lines in dropdown-list must be the same height. And I'm not going to change this.

I think I won't give option to change separator's background color. I'd rather prefer the ability to change each line's background Maybe something similar to $set_style(...)?... who knows?...

My aim was to keep my all prefereneces on one page As long as this aim is reached, I think that this plugin is simple and not over-bloated

really nice feature of this (direct support for divider playlists) would be that user couldn't switch to divider playlist (i.e. make it active) through foo_uie_playlists_dropdown (the line wouldn't get highlighted).

This is achievable, and I'll add this option to the 'divider-playlists'. However, your other suggestion to make it 'foobar-wide'... Remember, that it would also work for normal playlist-tabs and Playlist Switcher! I can imagine people who accidentally mark this foobar-wide option to 'omit' divider-playlists, two days later forget about it, and then spam 'support' forums complaining about 'auto-changing-playlists' This is *not* task for my plugin! Remember, this component is for *displaying* list of playlists, not organizing or changing form/behavior of it.

The best solution is to write separate plugin that groups and organizes playlists (or something) - in the way where other plugins could benefit from it (or not!). This is possible to implement (though, I don't say it's simple!). And I am not going to write this (in a couple of weeks, at least ).

And BTW, mazy, thanks for all your suggestions

Don't know if it is a bug or not. The %filesize% tag does not report correct information on files other than mp3 (e.g. cue+ape).

Correct, this is a bug Thanks for the report. I'll try to fix it in the new release.

This post has been edited by mixcherry: May 31 2006, 19:30

[mazy]

The divider-line would have to be the same height as all other dropdown lines - that's because I use CBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED window style (and not CBS_OWNERDRAWVARIABLE), if you know what I mean For non-developer, this means that all lines in dropdown-list must be the same height. And I'm not going to change this.

there was a little misunderstanding. i was talking about the drawn line (which was 1px in the mock up image), not the row (i guess i got these terms mixed ).

I think I won't give option to change separator's background color. I'd rather prefer the ability to change each line's background Maybe something similar to $set_style(...)?... who knows?...

that would be amazing! now, who's going to do the same to trackinfo panel?

This is achievable, and I'll add this option to the 'divider-playlists'. However, your other suggestion to make it 'foobar-wide'... Remember, that it would also work for normal playlist-tabs and Playlist Switcher! I can imagine people who accidentally mark this foobar-wide option to 'omit' divider-playlists, two days later forget about it, and then spam 'support' forums complaining about 'auto-changing-playlists' This is *not* task for my plugin! Remember, this component is for *displaying* list of playlists, not organizing or changing form/behavior of it.

all fair, you're right. i would be more than happy with support for this just in your plugin, i.e. when using mouse wheel or arrow keys etc.

thank you for your great plugin, that was something i was waiting for like for ages ...