Hey all. This plugin rocks. I have used alpha 3 since it came out and liked many of the options. I was excited to see alpha 4 come out. However, with alpha 4, i noticed you can only have 1 visualization on the sidebar. Can you change it back so that you can have as many visualizations as you want. - Screenshot - Thanks guys!

Your welcome.

Hrm.. I'll look into what is different from what album list does. Does it sort as expected in the panel using double-click or the context menu options?

It was changed for some reasons.

I think I will do something like SHIFT click to force an add, ctrl click for toggle (insert) shift+ctrl for force insert, and of course click for toggle (add).

In the mean time, you should have no problems loading alpha 3, adding your vis panels, and then overwriting it with alpha 4 (or whatever..).



As for transparent PNGs, Im very confused because it is not working on my laptop.... Oh well, whatever..

In the Album list panel, is there a way to allow the 'Auto send to playlist : ' to work like the 'Compare following strings and use output for name if identical for all files dropped' in the main columns_ui?

All of the options sort according to the core setting, which on my computer is %_path%|$num(%_subsong%,2)

What I'd like to see is a continuation of the existing sort behavior - so if I have my albumlist set to "artist|(date) album|tracknumber - title", and I click on "(date) album," it'll sort by "tracknumber - title" instead of "%_path%|$num(%_subsong%,2)"

Naturally, custom sort should work the same way as well, if enabled.

I don't know if it's the same as the normal album list's behavior, but if regular albumlist has this problem then I don't see why panel album list couldn't have this fixed

Sorry, I am not adding any new features for the minute.



Oh sorry, I got confused when you refered to "album list", I though you meant the behaviour different.

I'll check if it is not much hassle, for auto-send to only, if so I will change it for the next version.

Any chance of columns getting colored borders in the next release? Be nice to finally get rid of the 10 extra columns I have to create seperators. and now some picture to clarify:

I like having seperation between the columns of course.

Thats what I don't like doing to get them. Is it posisble to just stick a checkbox or something so create a pixel border and somewhere to set the color?
I love this UI though, best damn thing I've used for the best audio player out there.

Ít's already possible to set the frame colors of the columns (check the tools button in columns configuration and select "String help").

Now I am sounding stupid, but that isn't very clear. I tried to do what I think I should be doing but with no result. Perhaps someone could show me an example?

It says

So e.g.
will have a blue right border in each cell in that column.

You would need to have right borders in each column except the last for what you want. But having a different separator colour when the item is selected is not currently supportted.

Ah, All those brackets in the help had me confused. Thanks, I see how it works now.

Oh, and I have it set so every other line is a different color

but when I use the borders that no longer works. Do the 2 just not work together or have I screwed up, or do the color settings override my other color settings?

Hello Musicmusic I have another feature suggestion for some date in the future - not sure if it's been discussed before but...

Would it be possible to have muliple columns configs (just "columns")? And have a drop down ui extension that lets the user choose which config to apply?

Also ideally someway of choosing which of these configs to use when the foobar window is maximised or not (Usually I only have the window about 300x200 px in size with 3 columns, however i'd like foobar to use another config that uses about 7 columns when maximised).

Just a thought....

Cheers!

I second this!

Yeah i like this idea to, I suggested a similar idea a few pages back. But mine was about showing however many columns depending on whether the sidebar was visible or not (Usually i have 6 with, 9 without). Don't think musicmusic was keen on the idea tho

Of course it could be possible to achieve it with some tweaking of the resize value of the columns that you don't want to be seen. Just make it considerably bigger than the others' values are.

I just tested making a new column with the default width and resize value (both 100) and it's invisible when foobar's window is the size I usually have it, and it's perfectly visible when maximized.
I think I'll soon start tweaking my config...

edit: Ok, it doesn't work quite like that. It seems that you will have to have the width and resize values as the same (ie 10 and 10 or 100 and 100 etc) and it works.

ahhhh don't worry he'll come through

A small feature request: Could you make it so, that a sidebar panel is activated when its titlebar is clicked? I just thought that if it looks like a docked dialog, it should also feel that way.

Loving the albumlist panel. I've noticed one bug though- if you select one item, scroll down, and then drag another item onto the playlist without selecting it first, the panel scrolls back up to the selected item.

What about an option to select what command to run when user double clicks on the background? I'd like to assign "Add files..." to it, just as in Photoshop

Three things:

1: If you add 'playlist switcher', 'playback button' and 'album list' (in this order from top to bottom) and now try to drag the top part the playback buttons do not move. (perhaps this was reported earlier, don't know)

2: I want to start developing a extension but I can't get the source compiled (using Visual Studio 6). It complains about an unknown 'GetAncestor()'. I tried several places where to put all the files and several combinations of dependencies. Could someone give me a hint what I must do to get foo_static_panel compiled?

3: I'm not sure about this one. Create as many playlist until the vertical scrollbar appears in the playlist switcher thing. Now scroll to the top and select the first entry. After closing and reopening the first entry is still selected but it is most often not visible. That means the scrollbar is centered. I hope this is understandable.

Keep up the great work, foo_ui_columns is the best user interface a music player ever had!

Please post the entire string.

A similar thing was discussed once. It would probably be quite a nice feature, but it isn't on my immediate plans right now.

Yes, using the autosizing columns + resize setting is what I suggestted before I think. It is stated how it is calculated on the columns ui documentation page. (There is a known bug related to this though..)

I didnt like the caption drawing, so it doesn't look like that anymore anyway.

You mean use SetFocus()? That is a bit dodgy, I mean the vis would never expect to be focused, and other panels would have to handle it so that it then sets the focus to a child window.

It is like that as it was designed for auto-send, so it restores the selected item. I will see if I can prevent it scrolling like that.

You mean double clicking on the playlist? It would be trivial to implement, so I will add it to my todo list.


1.I knew something like that was broken, thanks. I will try and fix it, unfortunately it may be very complicated.

2. Sorry, insert #include <windows.h> in ui_extension.h

3. Do you mean closing and reopening foobar or the panel? I cant reproduce it anyway.

I had think I had just screwed up is all. I did not know you could use rbg and hex colors together for one thing. Before al I had for colour setting was


Fixed it now. I hadn't realized the $rgb could be used the same way with the | | | between the sets. Once I realized that, and due to my crappy scripting skills it took a while, everything was fine. Now it looks like this...


Thanks for the great ui, I can't imagine it being any better, but it somehow keeps getting better.

Cool, thanks
As janjan already said, you're making the best UI for the best audio player! I really feel sorry for all those Winampers (and Soniquers, iTunes'rs etc) who don't have the acces to a GUI this nice! Keep up the great work

I've tried putting #include <windows.h> in ui_extension.h, and it still gives me errors. It also doesn't give errors about HWND types or any other windows api functions, so it must be something else, but I have no idea what. Any thoughts?

Could you paste the exact errors?

When I try to build ui_extension I get the following errors:

both of those errors are related GetAnscestor.
the files included in the project are ui_exension.h and ui_extension.cpp
I took the include windows.h back out, since im pretty sure its included when you include foobar2000.h

I hope im not doing something stupid, ui_extension should just compile all by it self (with the header), right?

Well, if the UI Extension project is located in the proper place relative to the Foobar2000 SDK, it should already be pulling in ../SDK/foobar2000.h, which pulls in PFC, which eventually pulls in the Windows headers.

By any chance, are you declaring WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN anywhere?

well as you can tell by lack of include error about foobar2000.h that its in the right dir, and no, im not declaring WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

by looking at WINUSER.h I can see GetAncestor, it isnt inside of any #ifdefs so It really should work, calls to functions also declared in WINUSER work too.

I'm gonna guess that musicmusic doesnt use vc6 or has newer platform sdk, cause with def 6.0 at least the 6.0 i have declares WINVER as 0x4 and GetAncestor doesnt work with 4, only 5 and up
put
#define WINVER 0x0500
before foobar2000.h include and it compiles

Whoops.

This shouldwork for me too, thanks for the info

I have a few suggestions for future versions of this great plugin.

Auto-Sizing Columns
Remove the auto-sizing columns mode from its current position in the Display II tab. Allow it to be applied to as a feature to each column. This way the user can specify what columns he/she would like auto-sized. I think this would be better because certain columns such as 'track' or 'time' do not need to be auto-sized; They're quite small as they are, and the auto-size feature only enlarges them detracting from other columns.

Database Explorer
Decrease the size of the indents when expanded. Also, implement the use ellipses for tag info that exceeds the length of the database explorer window. This would eliminate the horizontal scroll bar for people like me who despise it

Just set the resize value to zero in the columns you don't want auto-sized.

Wow, thanks


Sorry, I do use msvc6, but the updated platform sdk was defining WINVER as 0x0501.

I don't think I have any reason to use GetAncestor, but meh I have fixed this now if you redownload, so if you care about win 95 compatibility, redownload the ui_extension project instead of defining WINVER as >=0x500.


I dont think those things are possible with the treeview control. I can change the overall (?) indentation, and remove the horizontal scrollbar, though.

Could you please ask a moderator to give you access to the first Post in this thread in some way? It would be a lot easier for all if you put all the news and files there instead of putting them at the end where they get lost as the discussion continues

Thank you soooo much for this. This is the best UI I've seen!

Wait, what did you change? It looks the same to me. How is it windows 95 compatable? is GetAncestor in user32.dll in windows 95? I thought not, unless theres an update for them. The new ui_extension still has those compile errors with out the define.

Probably a good idea. At any moderator, would this be possible at all?

Failing that, we could start a new thread instead..

I changed it to use GetParent if WINVER < 0x500. Maybe your browser is caching the old archive, or you downloaded the wrong file. Try clearing your browser cache and downloading again. (Direct link does not work)

Otherwise, it must still be broke or something.Not as far as I know..

Thanks anza. Great job by the way musicmusic.

As far as I know, the right to edit another user's posts can only be given to moderators (by an admin) and only on a per-forum basis.

I dont know if it would be possible, but I was thinking more like take some random old post of mine and merging it into this thread?

I'd just start a new thread with a link to this one at the top, and an explination of foo_ui_columns. Then this thread could be locked.

Or just die...

I would prefer a new topic as well, this one has become a little long to search and it's information fragmented.

Recycled an old post to serve as the starting post for this thread. Now you can decide what to do with it.

I just switched from foo_tunes to this. After some configuration business I like this plugin much better.

I have some feature requests :

Filter String / Search Box
A text field at the top of DataBase Explorer and/or Album list which filters out content that doesn't match the search string as you type it. No search/enter button. I don't know how complicated this implimentation would be but it would really help with the larger music collections.
Maybe a checkbox below it too search the songs in album list as well would be cool. Anyone like this idea?

Information Box
Another panel which displays cover art along with detailed stats on the playing file. It's really a sperate plugin but would be nice embedded in this great columns UI.

I don't know if these requests have been mentioned or discussed so forgive me if they have. Looking through 45 pages of thread would take all day.

One quick question. What would I do to sort my album list in this fashion:

The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Deftones - Adrenaline [1995]
Deftones - Deftones [2003]

In other words...when there is only one album for a particular artist it displays Artist - Album but for artists with more then one album it displays the albums in chronological order with the [YEAR] appendix. Thanks!

Great great plugin btw ... love at first sight.

@jokull: I like boh of your ideas ("Filter String / Search Box" and "Information Box"). In fact I started working on the latter myself, but after "wasting" days trying to figure out how to use different libraries and such, I lost motivation, for now.

@musicmusic: Something I've been thinking about from time to time: In the Columns list box in the Columns tab in preferences, would it be possible to show names of enabled columns in a different color, or bold, and use a double click on the name to toggle enabled/disabled? IMHO, that would be really convenient, as I have about thirty coloumns. Most of them are special purpose ones I use from time to time, but toggling them on/off involves alot of clicking and mouse movement.

Anyway, I love this UI and the panel concept. Thanks to you and kode54 "the crowd" has even got their volume slider, at last. Keep up the good work!

When i rightklick on a panel -> lock panel, i can still resize it, or how is the locking meant?
i also added the visualisation as panel and id like to change its colours, but when i do rightclick-Choose back/front colour, nothing happens. Strangely, it also doesnt work in the toolbar visualtion. i wonder how i changed these colours in the first place.

lock size



Same problem here

I don't think starting a new thread would really accomplish anything.

Thanks

Those may be useful suggestions, but I would rather concentrate development on foo_ui_columns itself, and leave those panels to whomever wishes to develop them.

Do you not use the columns header? Otherwise it is easier to enable/disable them from its contextmenu.

I'll consider italicising or using a strikethrough effect on disabled columns, and the double click toggle, but its some effort just for prefs, so it can wait for now.


For autosizing only, i.e. when the main window is resized vertically. It used to lock it when resizing manually, but then i decided there was no point to that and it would be simpler if it didn't.

Thanks, it broke in alpha 4. Fixed for next version, which should be released soon.

thanks musicmusic,!
another question: can i change the font for the tooltips and where?