@musicmusic

i found very annoying bug.. It appears only windows2000 sp4 (at windows XP all ok).. Baloon tooltip does not redraws when i press next track or pause/unpause..

For example, when foobar pared-down into tray i press play baloon tooltip shows "britney spears - blah" then i press next song hotkey BUT tooltip don't show name of next track(not redraws), he shows "britney spears - blah" again...

Please fix this small, but very annoying bug which goes since first versions..

On 'default UI' - all ok

Once again, I was out of it. I meant scrollwheel sensitivity. This request came from someone on IRC, who says that Winamp handles scaling of scrollwheel units automatically. Actually, I brainstormed the random configuration ideas to post here as I thought it might be better than an unconfigurable always-on feature you don't really know anything about.

I have no problem with the current system, as it only takes one quick 2/3 rotation to scroll about 100 lines in the list, but that can get a bit annoying when you really want to move quickly through 10000 or more items. (Alternately, their playlists could use a bit of reduction.)

It should be fied for the next version, thanks for the report.


Isn't that what accelerated scrolling is for? Mind you, I cant say I can tell the difference having it enabled or not with intellipoint 5.2.

They could also use page up & page down on the keyboard, or even try to bind them to the 4th & 5th mouse buttons if they have any, or even bind playlistfind to a shortcut & use its search from beginning thing.

Winamp seems to have a complete disregard for system mouse wheel settings, if you disable mouse wheel vertical scrolling it still scrolls

My winamp scrolls 8 lines regardless of playlist size, unless i missed some setting.

Anyway I will implement something before 0.1.2 final (whenever that may be..).

Maybe something like this (radio buttons)
[o] use system settings (default)
[o] use custom no. scroll lines per wheel rotation (or equiv of rotation on freely rotating wheels)
[o] no. scroll lines is proportional to playlist size, lines = (playlist size / x), minimum y, maximum z

Or even something crazy like lines = (playlist size/((playlist size)/(page size) + x) + (minimum value)), where x is user-definable, if that would even work properly..

Unless you , or "they" have any better but concise suggestions

Musicmusic,

Any way to possibly make arrow keys work in the album list uie? In the normal album list, I am able to use arrows to quickly open a tree, close a tree, etc. Also same thing with normal key presses, i.e. pressing M goes to Metal, then I hit right arrow, opens the Metal tree, hit M again, goes down to Metallica, etc. If you could work this into it that would be great (unless I missed this...). Excellent plugins man.

Uncheck 'Process keyboard shortcuts' on the album list panel's config page.

Nope. Just one Tieu who came in the channel and asked for scrolling sensitivity like Winamp's, for their playlist of 10,000 files, and didn't really point out whether Winamp's scrolling was relative or configurable. He could not register at the forum because it refused his Yahoo address, and for some reason he didn't want to expose his university mail account to the administration of this forum. Or something.

The system setting is fine for me.

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Hi, I´m using the "Azrael (Rexy Mod)" config and I´d like to make itt some changes...

I tried hard, but i just can´t figure out how to change the color of the words between brackets in the title field ... it was possible with azarel´s original config, but here the code has changed a lot, and I can´t do it..

Can anyone help??

Columns UI doesn't like transparency. These white pixels should be transparent.

Hi,

I requested this in the playlistfind thread but apparently this would have to be eventually implemented in the Albumlist panel itself, so there it goes



Thanks in advance.

Transparency with images with 32-bit colour depth works fine here:


But, as it is stated in some places, it has some major limitations:

• It only works on windows xp and newer
  
  
• It suffers from the limitations of the toolbar control. I.e. you can't have an entirely transparent button. (Not that you would want to..)
  

So, if you are in fact using windows xp, check that your image is being saved in the correct format. If you are still having trouble, upload the image and i will take a look at it.

If, on the other hand, you where trying to use the option "make bottom left pixel transparent", it only works on BMPs with 8-bit & less colour depth, as stated right next to the option.


Sounds like a lot of work

I dont have the time to add new features to that plugin unfortunately, sorry.

Oh, and Windows Me users can try kode54's modified utf8api.dll (the win9x one) and see if balloon tips work (remember to enable balloon tips in prefs as well).

sorry to ask this kind of off-topic, but can someone really follow this 41 pages thread? everytime i think on readying it, i stop

Yeah, I'm using XP. The buttons were in PNG format. I had the two required DLLs (libpng and zlib) and it was still showing transparent bits as white though. I found a workaround however. I just opened the PNG in Paint and saved as a 24-bit BMP and instant transparency.

The revised revised ui_extension API looks good, at least as far as I can tell now. I was quite busy with other matters, so I haven't been able to try it out or even finish adding panel support to foo_history.

A small request concerning the active item frame in the playlist: Could you please draw it below the text?

Could you change it so that the albumlist panel will sort the database view in the same order as the albumlist settings?

Maybe Columns UI doesn't support 8bpp PNG with tRNS chunk in place of 32bpp. On an aside, it should probably support the bKGD chunk as well, which in some cases indicates a palette index that should be fully transparent, or a RGB color which may also be treated as transparent.

TweakPNG is really useful for examining or tweaking your images.

musicmusic, because of you I am now using fb2k

However, I'd like it so much better if the dbexplorer could be an actual TAB in foobar, versus a side-panel.

Thanks alot.

maybe a bug, maybe not can you no longer chose the color for everyother color?

Want to notice you, today try alpha4 on 2ksp4 -- all works fine! Thanks!

Just wanted to say that I love this extension

When I set the sorting in the databse explorer panel to %_path%, it sorts by %album%. Why?

Because all you albums have their own directory?

At least that would explain it to some extent...

Yes...all album have their own directories, but %_path% does show the whole path...doesn't it?
I have them in directories like %genre%\%artist%\%album%, so any alternative rock album would come before the other albums...which isn't the case.
So...the sorting must be wrong in some way. I have tried sorting by %artist% too, but that gives me the same result .

I just got this idea:
Wouldn't it be nice to add some colors to the playlist switcher panel, to make it easier to differentiate between different playlist types? This could be done with TAGZ code in it's own box, under "Columns UI->Display->Playlist switcher..." in preferences.

Reasoning:
I have quite a few different types of playlists, based on their contents and how they where generated (using the extended playlist generator). Some of my types are: Genre based, play count, track rating, streaming, temp and more.

Here is a screenshot of how it might look. In that screenshot, all playlists that should be forced to show all tracks as singles (meaning, show both artist and title info ++) starts with -s-, the ones generated from track rating and play count, shows the sorting used in parenthesis and some of these which are genre specific, also shows genre.

I think it would look alot better and be easier to read, if I could make all "force single mode" playlists to appear in one color/shade, all generated from track rating in another, play count in a third, with the info in parenthesis dimmed and so on.

By using special characters/strings (e.g. -s-, ¤, =, ..) in the playlist name you could simply replace them with color codes before display, and hence get a list that would be both cleaner and easier to read at the same time. These now "invisible" special characters/strings could still be used in the formatting of the playlist

So, does this sound way over the top? Would it be alot of work to add this as an option, in addition to the current "one color fits all"?

Is there an option to disable the title bars of the sidebar panels in beta4?

foo_ui_columns 0.1.2 alpha 4 is... how should I put it... simply great.

Yet, there is no light without darkness: In ui_extension.h, there is a mysterious #include "helper.h" directive, but there is no helper.h in ui_extension.zip. foo_history compiled fine after commenting that out.

A small feature request: Could you add support for the ui_drop_item_callback? All that is needed, is a call to ui_drop_item_callback::g_is_accepted_type() and ui_drop_item_callback::g_on_drop(). I would appreciate it, if I could use the plugin installation feature of foo_beammeup in foo_ui_columns.

On a sidenote, would it be OK, if I used code from foo_history_panel in foo_history?

Maybe that was supposed to be helpers.h, for the Foobar2000 SDK helpers, although it doesn't make much sense to include it in a service declaration if it doesn't depend on it.

I'm using the theme HmmXP and I'm making a button set to go with my theme. I see 2 disturbing points in my button set.

First, for the trained eye, there is some white next too the buttons (1 pixel ). I used 24 bit PNG with transparency, if I'm correct that makes 32bit PNG.

the second thing is, the bevel on mouse over, I've made mouseover images, so why is there bevel, can I shut it down somewhere in the prefs :?

if someone want to make a azreal coulourtheme for hmmxp I would be more happy

i've asked about that before. as it is right now, you can only have normal state plus optionally mouse over state, but the component used for that renders windows buttons underneath those bitmaps.

musicmusic said, that he should be able to disable that, so we could have only our bitmaps rendered and nothing else (i asked about possibility of down state, but it can't be done with that component that he is using).

to bad, I don't like the bevel thingie to much

I solved the whitespace thingie, I just wasn't stubern enough with nudging. I thought I tried the really close aproach before, but then the buttons came out all wrong, but they seem to work alright now

for this to be the cooooolest button set I will look to the design of play icon etc. this weekend prob


I cleaned the buttons a little

In alpha 4, database explorer panel cant show in the toolbar (rather than the sidebar) anymore. I suppose this is intentional?

Also one suggestion i would have is adding a button to the toolbar to show/hide the sidebar.

I can show it in the toolbar with alpha4. Maybe you need to download the latest explorer panel version

I used alpha 4,but I think it's worse than alpha 3.
And both can't load the vis color setting in the fcs files.
Is it a bug? But this works in 0.1.1.

no it doesn't work. I have the newest verions.

What i mean is that in the old 0.1.1 the album list could appear in the toolbar, not the side bar, and that is why there is an option for minimum height.

something like...

Check "Show all toolbars" in Columns UI preferenses.

Where can I download the latest panel plugin?
This link just show me the following message,"The page cannot be found"

Try accessing from the upper page: http://members.lycos.co.uk/musicf/temp/
The link IS working.

OK
I changed a proxy server and have got it.
Thanks anyway

Okay, someone asked a question and no answer was given so I'm going to ask again and provide a screenshot.

I've searched through all the settings and had friends who've been using Foobar longer than me look as well and I can't figure out how to turn this off.. see image.

All I'm looking for is a way to turn off or disable the headers on the sidebar as they are cluttered and do not inherit the style I wrote for bb4win.

Any help you can provide would be great, thanks.

duhhhhhh

agreed

@liquify: I would also like to be able to disable headers, but this is an alpha version and headers was introduced in the latest alpha, if I'm not mistaken. musicmusic (the developer) usually answers all questions, but he hasn't read/posted since anza made this request in the first place. So, just be patient until musicmusic drops by...

Btw: Just a guess, but he might have added headers to have something to right click on to bring up the panel related context menu. Instead of the way it worked previously, when this menu was added at the top of the standard context menu.

cant get alpha 4 to download, always freezes at 29%

I have upped the whole package here

[quote=foosion,Sep 20 2004, 03:36 PM]The revised revised ui_extension API looks good, at least as far as I can tell now. I was quite busy with other matters, so I haven't been able to try it out or even finish adding panel support to foo_history.

A small request concerning the active item frame in the playlist: Could you please draw it below the text?

[/quote]Hi,

I actually prefer text underneath frame. Maybe an option could be done at some point.


[quote=Killmaster,Sep 21 2004, 05:02 AM]Could you change it so that the albumlist panel will sort the database view in the same order as the albumlist settings?

[/quote]That would require the panel to be implemented in teh albumlist componenet, or at least some changes or something.


[quote=kode54,Sep 21 2004, 07:42 AM][quote=Insolent,Sep 19 2004, 10:12 PM]Yeah, I'm using XP. The buttons were in PNG format. I had the two required DLLs (libpng and zlib) and it was still showing transparent bits as white though. I found a workaround however. I just opened the PNG in Paint and saved as a 24-bit BMP and instant transparency.
[/quote]
Maybe Columns UI doesn't support 8bpp PNG with tRNS chunk in place of 32bpp. On an aside, it should probably support the bKGD chunk as well, which in some cases indicates a palette index that should be fully transparent, or a RGB color which may also be treated as transparent.

TweakPNG is really useful for examining or tweaking your images.

[/quote]
I know my png loader sucks, but I dont know anything about the things you meantioned anyway... Write me a decent one if you feel up to it...

[quote=SoulEata,Sep 22 2004, 08:47 PM]musicmusic, because of you I am now using fb2k 

However, I'd like it so much better if the dbexplorer could be an actual TAB in foobar, versus a side-panel.

Thanks alot.

[/quote]Sorry, no plans for that at the moment.

[quote=spaceships,Sep 25 2004, 02:48 AM]maybe a bug, maybe not can you no longer chose the color for everyother color?

[/quote]Do not know what yuo mean. Maybe you need to press the apply button ?

[quote=yojig,Sep 25 2004, 05:08 AM][quote=musicmusic,Sep 17 2004, 07:33 AM][quote=yojig,Sep 14 2004, 09:59 AM]@musicmusic

i found very annoying bug.. It appears only windows2000 sp4 (at windows XP all ok).. Baloon tooltip does not redraws when i press next track or pause/unpause..

For example, when foobar pared-down into tray i press play baloon tooltip shows "britney spears - blah" then i press next song hotkey BUT tooltip don't show name of next track(not redraws), he shows "britney spears - blah" again... 

Please fix this small, but very annoying bug which goes since first versions..

On 'default UI' - all ok

[/quote]

It should be fied for the next version, thanks for the report.
[/quote]

Want to notice you, today try alpha4 on 2ksp4 -- all works fine! Thanks!

[/quote]Thanks for the confirmatioin

[quote=kerpondile,Sep 26 2004, 08:36 PM]Just wanted to say that I love this extension

[/quote]Yeah


[quote=R2D2,Sep 27 2004, 04:27 PM]When I set the sorting in the databse explorer panel to %_path%, it sorts by %album%. Why?

[/quote]I don't think the sort setting actually does anything.

[quote=upNorth,Sep 28 2004, 05:16 PM]I just got this idea:
Wouldn't it be nice to add some colors to the playlist switcher panel, to make it easier to differentiate between different playlist types? This could be done with TAGZ code in it's own box, under "Columns UI->Display->Playlist switcher..." in preferences.

Reasoning:
I have quite a few different types of playlists, based on their contents and how they where generated (using the extended playlist generator). Some of my types are: Genre based, play count, track rating, streaming, temp and more.

Here is a screenshot of how it might look. In that screenshot, all playlists that should be forced to show all tracks as singles (meaning, show both artist and title info ++) starts with -s-, the ones generated from track rating and play count, shows the sorting used in parenthesis and some of these which are genre specific, also shows genre.

I think it would look alot better and be easier to read, if I could make all "force single mode" playlists to appear in one color/shade, all generated from track rating in another, play count in a third, with the info in parenthesis dimmed and so on.

By using special characters/strings (e.g. -s-, ¤, =, ..) in the playlist name you could simply replace them with color codes before display, and hence get a list that would be both cleaner and easier to read at the same time. These now "invisible" special characters/strings could still be used in the formatting of the playlist

So, does this sound way over the top? Would it be alot of work to add this as an option, in addition to the current "one color fits all"?

[/quote]It would require either tagz or a true/false filter thing like tha current playlist filer, wihich would chosse from two diff. colours.

I have no plans for that at the moment, you can actually use colour codes there if you want, put them in the playlist name.
[quote=anza,Sep 28 2004, 05:19 PM]Is there an option to disable the title bars of the sidebar panels in beta4?

[/quote]It is forthcoming.


[quote=foosion,Sep 28 2004, 05:32 PM]foo_ui_columns 0.1.2 alpha 4 is... how should I put it... simply great. [/quote]Ha ha thanks

[quote=foosion,Sep 28 2004, 05:32 PM]Yet, there is no light without darkness: In ui_extension.h, there is a mysterious #include "helper.h" directive, but there is no helper.h in ui_extension.zip. foo_history compiled fine after commenting that out.
[/quote]Yep, just comment it out for now, it was some obsolete crap I was writing, unnecessary.

[quote=foosion,Sep 28 2004, 05:32 PM]A small feature request: Could you add support for the ui_drop_item_callback? All that is needed, is a call to ui_drop_item_callback::g_is_accepted_type() and ui_drop_item_callback::g_on_drop(). I would appreciate it, if I could use the plugin installation feature of foo_beammeup in foo_ui_columns. [/quote]Yeah, there wan't any documentation about that, I wasn't sure if it was called in playlist_oper::process_droped_files*() or not, and did not get around to cheecking. I will fix it for the next version.

[quote=foosion,Sep 28 2004, 05:32 PM]On a sidenote, would it be OK, if I used code from foo_history_panel in foo_history?

[/quote]Of course, go for it . I would check over it all first, of course though. I know, for example, the history::on_items_removed() handler messes up the selection.

[quote=syrek,Sep 29 2004, 12:40 PM]

I'm using the theme HmmXP and I'm making a button set to go with my theme. I see 2 disturbing points in my button set.

First, for the trained eye, there is some white next too the buttons (1 pixel  ). I used 24 bit PNG with transparency, if I'm correct that makes 32bit PNG.

[/quote]
Hi, (i think) the space you refer to is because the buttons are indented when pressed. When extra options are implemented, it will be avoidable.

[quote=longyan,Sep 30 2004, 07:50 AM]I used alpha 4,but I think it's worse than alpha 3.[/quote]The main thing behind alpha 4 was the api changes.
[quote=longyan,Sep 30 2004, 07:50 AM]And both can't load the vis color setting in the fcs files.
[/quote]Vis panels support instance-specific colours, currently imported vis colours affect new vis panels only (i think).

[quote=liquify,Sep 30 2004, 03:18 PM]Okay, someone asked a question and no answer was given so I'm going to ask again and provide a screenshot.

I've searched through all the settings and had friends who've been using Foobar longer than me look as well and I can't figure out how to turn this off.. see image.

All I'm looking for is a way to turn off or disable the headers on the sidebar as they are cluttered and do not inherit the style I wrote for bb4win.

Any help you can provide would be great, thanks. 



[/quote]Chill out, its an alpha version.. Not to mention the pallette title (i.e. small caption) font & size settings in display properties seems a bit messed up for your theme. I could also make them use xp theming, but it is far more complicated..

[quote=upNorth,Sep 30 2004, 04:24 PM]@liquify: I would also like to be able to disable headers, but this is an alpha version and headers was introduced in the latest alpha, if I'm not mistaken. musicmusic (the developer) usually answers all questions, but he hasn't read/posted since anza made this request in the first place. So, just be patient until musicmusic drops by... 

Btw: Just a guess, but he might have added headers to have something to right click on to bring up the panel related context menu. Instead of the way it worked previously, when this menu was added at the top of the standard context menu.

[/quote]Yes, I have been very busy (started uni) but I will either make it optional, or show them only for panels (as opposed to toolbars).

Looks great.

Well, I wouldn't care, if the two didn't overlap. Just do as you see fit.


Thanks. I think I'll end up writing the history_callback handling from scratch anyway, since I've received a bug report that looks suspiciously like a multi-threading issue.

I am 'chilled'.

Palette title is fine.. I use Windows Classic Style in XP underneath bb4win because it looks the least cluttered, I can't see any of the title bars, palette or otherwise, because of the bb4win gradient overlay, which is why I was curious as to whether or not they can be disabled. Now that I know they can't, I'll anxiously await your next release.

Thanks for the reply and for working so hard on this for us.

Sorry, I should have clarified... currently, when I have "auto send to playlist" enabled, it sorts the songs in the playlist according to the "sort new files by" setting in preferences/core. What I'd like is for it to use the same sort settings as the custom sort in the album list panel settings, or the normal view sorting scheme if that's not enabled.