foo_wave_seekbar, pretty accelerated seekbar Options

[Zao]

Changelog:
Component release changelog

Description:
After a couple of months of painful testing by my trusty team of madmen, it's time to make the first proper public release of my waveform seekbar.
It's an UI element for both the Default UI and Columns UI that provides seekbar functionality (seeking, position indicator) on top of a pretty image of the waveform of the currently playing song, drawn using either Direct3D 9.0c, Direct2D 1.0 or GDI+.
The Direct3D 9.0c mode requires a PS2.0 capable card, and has some support for strange cards like the Intel 945. The HLSL effect (in the effects directory) can be modified using any text editor to further customize the look.
To avoid having to scan tracks on the fly, the component can extract the waveform signature of a song in advance through a context menu item. The process works in the background and resumes after closing foobar2000. It will automatically analyse the currently playing song and songs that follow it in the playback order, which should give an appearance of always having the visuals available.
The seekbar has three frontends and some per-instance customizable settings accessible through the UI element context menu, as well as seeking functionality if you click and drag, like the regular seekbar.
If your machine is not capable of running the Direct3D9 or Direct2D modes, the GDI+ mode should work as a fallback on any machine that foobar2000 can run on, as it only requires Windows XP and GDI+.

Links:
foo_wave_seekbar component page
The Direct3D 9.0c mode requires the DirectX end-user runtime dated earliest February 2010, which can be installed through use of the DirectX end-user Runtime Web Installer (make sure to not accidentally install the Bing Bar they try to force on you).
Note that the DirectX redistributable is required on all OSes no matter whether you think you "have DirectX installed already, lol" or not.
The Direct2D 1.0 mode requires either Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 and up. For Vista SP2 it requires installation of the Platform Update.
Versions over 0.2.12 require the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (x86) runtime.
Versions starting from 0.2.35 require the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (x86) runtime installed. If you're the kind of person who for some reason cannot run the installer, as a fallback solution you can put in the msvcr110.dll and msvcp110.dll from this download location manually in your PATH or in the foobar2000 application directory. Note that if you put them in the foo_wave_seekbar directory, they will be removed whenever the component is updated.

Installation:
- Download the above zip file.
- Install the dependencies needed as per the Links section above.
- Drag the zip file onto the foobar2000 components pane in the preferences or navigate to it with the Install button as with any other component.

Usage:
- Highlight one or more files in your playlist. Rightclick on them and select "Extract Seekbar Signature"
- Add UI element to the Default UI or Columns UI as normal
- The backing storage does not know or care about file operations like moving, renaming and such. In order to remove dead items from the storage or compact the storage, there are menu items for that under the Library main menu.

Future changes:
- Lots.

This post has been edited by Zao: May 4 2013, 13:58

[2E7AH]

I guess zooming (middle scroll) is out of question? (in case some time grid is added as requested)

This post has been edited by 2E7AH: Jan 4 2010, 13:59