Well if you don't mind clicking the buttons many times you can just assign keys for "Components/Columns UI/Increase font size" and "Components/Columns UI/Decrease font size". Anyhow, I myself would also like a "switch font size" feature with configurable small and large fonts.

When i put a panel in the toolbar how do i make it larger vertically?

You need to add at least one panel with a Minimum height setting.
E.g.: Tabbed panel stack (foo_uie_tabs), Album List panel (foo_uie_albumlist)

Edit: spelling

Thanks, I had overlooked that



This next question is to Musicmusic I suppose. Why is there padding between the vertical scrollbar, and the panels edge in the new version of this plugin. As, I recall it was flush with the edge in other versions. Is it a bug or intentional? If so, is it possible for me to make it flush again?

sorry for beeing offtopic: what is the backgroundcolor code? thank you

musicmusic@
in beta 4 why did you change the api?
because the change messed with some of the things i had running with bb4win
as the plugin can no longer access the song title and artist and such
i was just wondering if it was possible that you'd switch it back to the way it was called before, if that doesn't mess everything up of course 8) because beta 4 is rocking for me

If you download a color picker like Colormania you can have the code for whantever color you see on the screen.

Background color of the albumlist above is R 103 G 126 B 163

I will consider it (if you mean the playlist font).
You lost me there, what exactly are you saying about the playlist and album list? You screenshot doesn't work here either.

Well that is standard behaviour, I changed the border from the non-themed one to the themed one (and inbetween those versions there was one with no border.) It should look same as history or playlist switcher w/ sunken border. If it looks bad maybe its you theme's fault, it looks fine here.

Because the panel developers requested it, some wanted teh ability to get/set the visibility of their panel.

Im not sure what that is, but I don't see how it is using the ui_extension api, or what it has to do with me. The UI has no legal externally visible interfaces, to retrieve song artist or title, and if it was reading the window title, it shouldn't have broken from beta 3 (maybe it would have if you upgraded from 0.1.1, i forget when I changed the class name of the main window).

Columns UI 0.1.2 RC1 is out
(hopefully last non-final version..)

changelog:
-The focused window should be remembered when you focus foobar again
-The vis was fixed up
-Alt etc. keys will work when you have a menu in the sidebar
-Fixed visibility etc. stuff in sidebar, they where broken in beta 4. So now e.g. for the playlistfind panel going to components/playlistfind/find in playlist will show the panel/sidebar if necessary (doesnt work if you use autohide though)

The link to the RC1 in the first post gives a 404

My bad, I fixed it now, thanks..

no history panel? where can i find it anyone? that will work with RC1

I assume this is a Columns UI question, rather than a uie thing....

I have a bunch of panels set up in the side bar (from top to bottom it goes menu, seek bar, play-list find, album list, track info, play lists), and i want all of these but the last one (play lists) to have a 'locked' height. The problem is, i have captions disabled on all of the panels, so the only panels that i can actually right-click and check 'Lock panel' on are the menu and seek-bar panels (because they have some extra space around them to right-click on). All the other panels are just text boxes, so i can't right-click them to check this option. Which means that whenever i resize foobar my find box will resize and my track-info box will resize and so forth.

Is there any way i can lock these panels without having captions enabled? (Other than checking 'Lock panel' before removing the captions, which results in the panels being too big.) I skimmed through foobar2000.cfg, but it's pretty intimidating. :/

a couple of suggestions (if you're still taking them) ...

i was wonderring if the single pixel border that appears around a selected playlist item would be able to be in the global color string. i think it'd be nice to be able to specify this color from there so you can have alternate colors (using a $mod function) if you use a striped playlist (like itunes).

also i was wonderring if the column headers could have a specified style (sunken, grey, none) but still allow header interaction. i like the flat look (i think it's the none setting), but you can't have that and still turn the header sorting (interaction) on. it appears that if you turn the interaction on you have to have a thicker header button. it'd also be nice if we could alter the mouseover color.

finally, what about alternate fonts (we already have a primary, but what about a secondary) for the playlist. so we can write a display like:

Dave Matthews Band (featuring Tim Reynolds)

maybe some kind of tagging (like html not metadata) can be used to specify when to use the alternate font.

just a couple of ideas, keep up the good work ... thanks.

The current version of foo_history has a panel built in. You can see a list of panels available in teh first post of this thread.

Not currently, some other method to toggle caption/locked states will be implemented after 0.1.2.

Right, but you can still resize locked panels.

foobar2000.cfg is fairly "low-level" and isn't meant for user editing, you could blow things up pretty bad. Anyway its protected by a checksum so you won't get anywhere editting foobar2000.cfg unless you know how to generate the checksum..

Some of those are covered/similar to things in the knwown feature requests list.

As for the header stuff, I didnt realise "disable header ... interaction" made a difference to how the header looks (it doesnt w/ xp themes). All it is really doing is toggling whether they act as buttons or not. Colours/drawing style etc. is controlled by windows, unless i owner draw it which I dont have any plans to do right now. The only thing I can do as give the header a "Flat" look (no borders anywhere), for only windows xp w/o themes..

yeah, count me in too .

way to define and switch to few different fonts would be great (so you could have different font for album name, some additional info and comments, symbols etc.)

musicmusic, hello
could you please add an option to be not able to delete playlists using Delete key when using playlist switcher. I sometimes delete active playlist instead of deleting selected songs.
thank you!

hi, great thing! thanx!
but i have 2 problems:

1. i have one song that i heard 75 times and another one that i heard 89 times.
how can i make the string display songs that was played between 70-90 times ? (see left pic in the attachment)
2. the 128 times song playes is not in the right place, how do i fix it? (see right pic)



thanx!

@eliazu:

1)
Something like this:

2)
Replacewith

Edit: added 1)
Edit2: Improved 1)

@upNorth,
thanx!!! it works great!!

... So you can. Thanks, that'll work for now. <_<

Where does the caption background color get its value from? I use 3dcc to colorize my window scheme and the color of the caption's background remains whatever windows original color scheme is instead of what the 3dcc scheme specifies.



As you can see in the above image, the background on the menu area matches the color of the rest of the window while that of the caption is different.

Ok. But there are plenty of ways to indicate what the focused window is, i mean you can't expect every panel to do this (e.g. History).

What OS are you running?

The code copy & pasted is:

Those colours are defined in your colour cheme that you select in display properties, and some of these colours are customisable in teh advanced section of that page. What COLOR_MENUBAR/COLOR_3DFACE values translate to is documented here.

In short, if your running xp its because Im using COLOR_MENUBAR. Maybe Im wrong for doing that, but it should still be the same colour as your normal menus (e.g. notepad). (I was looking at the behaviour of the explorer bar in windows explorer, that uses the rebar (toolbars) background, but only the top shows so you can't really tell, so I used a colour that seemed to be similar)

Otherwise, your program is broke, try messing with the colours in display properties/appearance/advanced (? - its there on xp).

Maybe I should revise my choice my colours for it anyway, I'll look into something more consistant on xp/non-xp.

I'm using XP SP2 with visual themes disabled (I've selected "Windows Classic Style" in Display->Appearance), and I see something similar to what described in mimeryme's post (visible in my track info screenshot). That colour looks like its from the default xp theme, and matches none of the colours in the advanced appearance properties. Its never really bothered me since it probably looks better that way than it would in grey, but it would be great to be able to specify a background/text colour for the caption.

Hrmm... a shot in the dark after digging around msdn - could you possibly query SystemParametersInfo with SPI_GETFLATMENU, and only use COLOR_MENUBAR if the result comes back TRUE? It returns FALSE on my current config.

I had a similar color problem once and was able to fix it with reselect the visual theme. After using the blue XP style and switching back to the classic stlye the colors of the UI extension caption thingies wasn't the normal grey but some color left from the blue XP theme.
The problem in the end was that I used the theme switching option in the leftmost tab of the display option. Using this way windows seems not to update all colors (Windows bug?). After switching the theme in the rightmost display option tab (don't know where this is exactly, I'm currently using win 2000) it worked as expected.
Perhaps this could be the reason for the problem (But it's just a guess)

You're right janjan, I was able to fix it by selecting a different colour scheme under the Appearance tab and then reverting to my previous one.

I'm on XP w/ sp2. I looked over the 3dcc program again to see if I could find the color and indeed I did.

I couldn't find it on Windows' Display Settings, but 3dcc indicates the color as Menu Highlight. I don't believe I have ever seen this so called highlight anywhere else, but at least I know where to go to change the value.

Thanks for your suggestions musicmusic.

Hi,

I would like to make a small feature request if possible...
When I want to save a playlist, I rightclick on its tab and choose "Save playlist...". That's fine. However, when I edit and save the same playlist several times, I would prefer a one-click "Save" command that will update the current file without the need to choose the name again. If it's easier, the "Save" command could just save the <name of playlist>.fpl in a default directory.
An autosave every n minutes feature would also be useful, but maybe I'm asking too much....

Thanks

Isn't already done by fb2k? It auto-save your playlists in the 'foobar2000\playlists' directory. It saves it like this:
000000000 - Name of first playlist tab.fpl
000000001 - Name of second playlist tab.fpl
[...]

Dunno if this is what you're looking for

3 requests...

1: divide this thread into several... on for programming, one for feature requests and one for updates... This thread is huge, and really unmanageable.

2: a console panel... (that would just be sooooo nice)

3: (Albumlist panel): I use the albumlist panel for about everything. and my title formatting does differentaite between tracknumbers (as i think most others do). This presents a problem when making a playlist which (for example) sorts by times played. You could make the playlist look different for different %_playlist_title% but I would like to use a %_albumlist_view% (other solutions would be nice too)

These are temp files. When you close the tab, playlist is lost.
I'm suggesting to make it possible that one could use playlists in foobar like documents in Word or spreadsheets in Excel, etc. where you have a Save as... option and a Save option.

Since Rexy updated the albumart plugin I have just updated it along with all the other plugins. Now the albumlist and history panels have a white border, which doesn't fit with my color theme. The white border only seems to be there when I am using a windowblinds theme, with the old plugins it wasn't there though.

Feature request:

Minimize the fb2k windows(hide the playlist panel)(not minimize to system tray or task bar ) with one command or button with options(hide the seekbar ,status bar ect....)

Hope my dreams come true...

plz forgive my very broken english

Hmm...

I guess the best thing I could do is draw it using uxtheme so it looks same as explorer bar in windows explorer. I thought I tried that though, and didn't get anywhere I can't remember..

I hear you but really it would be better if there was some service for developers so they could add items relating to the playlist to its context menu.

I don't really see any need for autosave x minutes.

1. Well I can't divide the thread, and I can't control what other people post. There is a thread for ui extension developement, but it isn't always used, maybe I should link to it from the first post. I agree with you though.

2. Maybe your post wasn't directed at me(?) That would have to be immplemented in the console component or something (its not open source).

3. Sounds reasonable, but maybe a "use custom sort for this view" style thing would be better (faster since not processed in tagz)

Maybe you answered your own question. Some of my panels where changed so that the border is themed on xp, to be more consistent. This was done only by putting the border on the control (e.g. list box) instead of the parent window. So it isn't my fault, either your theme's or windowblinds'.


You mean hiding/showing the panels? I didn't mention it in the changelog (since its a bit kludgy), but from beta 4 you can actually double click on the panel captions to do that.

I have experimented with the theme's coloursettings. It seems the only setting affecting this white "border" is the window background color. It's like the albumlist plugin just doesn't fill up entirely with its chosen background color and shows just a little bit of the color set as window background color in windows.

EDIT: Here's a pic of my foobar showing the white border.

You're right in ways - I can reproduce the wrong colour being used in the border for listboxes with non-system background colours on the listbox. I can't see a way to fix this, its Microsoft's problem really i think. But i cant reproduce it for the albumlist panel - its probably Windowblinds fault in that case. Here, the border is drawn using the background colour set in prefs (if custom colours is used) not the system window background colour.

I dont think it will work with windowblinds but you could try going into prefs, checking "Use custom colours", and set them to what they are (i.e. black background), and then restart foobar (or do something to cause the albumlist panel window to repaint, like drag the prefs window over it).

Well I can't get it to work right with windowblinds, I just switched to a darker theme as a workaround, sort of...

Pic

How did you split foobar vertically ?

Ok, i've figured it out now

My latest config

Quick question about the status bar:

I used to have foobar display the number of files I had highlighted in a playlist in the statusbar. Does anyone have formatting code that can do that with columns?

Do you mind sharing the "No Cover" image seen in that screenshot? I think it would look good with my blue and orange config.

Nice looking config btw.

2Xerion: how you use g-forse as toolbar ? or it's empty space with g-force on top

It's on top. G-force doesn't have panel support. See Xerion's post here

No cover pic




Yeah, I just put an empty panelstack behind it untill there is a good vis panel

awesome

@musicmusic


No, not only hide the playlist panel(playlist switcher), but also hide the whole playlist window, with one command and options, so the player only remains system menu, seekbar, control button, and status bar... did you understand me?
(again, plz forgive my very broken english...)

Request one feature.
Colors go under the order if one will not be that there is a transition to the following. It is not so convenient, I want that they went in the certain order and did not pass to the following if is absent. Can be you will make color which it will not be displayed.
Example:
[left frame] |top frame] | [right frame] | [bottom frame]
If there is no [right frame] that it is read out [bottom frame], can be you will make color which would be transparent.
Example:
[left frame] |top frame] | [transparent frame] | [bottom frame]

Just don't input anything into those fields like so.

[left frame] | [top frame] || [bottom frame]

That's what I do and it works fine.

In the picture where it says uber albums with the tabs, what plugin is that?

Could someone help me and give me the code needed for artist/year/album playlist order?

TIA