I just started trying out mediamonkey and I noticed a feature which I thought was nice. You can progressively sort more than one column by holding ctrl while clicking on the column headers. This makes it easy to sort by more than one variable without having to use custom sorting.

Just a thought

I agree, that would be great.

- Lyx

Hmm, how is that different from what currently happens if you click e.g. the title column, then artist column? Sorting by columns already has a "memory" of the previous sort order if that is what you wanted.

Hmm, it's been a while now. How's development of 0.1.3 going?

Seems to be going quite well...

that's great! thank musicmusic

I just tried it and I can't get it to sort with more than one column. For example, I clicked on my Artist column and then on my Bitrate column and it sorted everything by bitrate only. Of course I could get it to do this with a custom sort, but that's not as intuitive.

Have you tried clicking first on bitrate and THEN on artist?

I would really like to be able to have a second sidebar... I don't think that's possible at the moment, or is it?

I noticed that once i switched to columns the transparency option didn't work. Is transparency going to be implemented into columns ui? Thanks

No, its not. Im hoping to completely remove the sidebar by 0.1.3, with the new configurable layout replacing it.


The options for the Default User Interface do not apply to Columns UI.

Implementing transparency isn't on my immediate plans. Possibly later if its not too much hassle, but its not something I've looked into.

The new configurable layout? Have you described this earlier in the thread?

Vaguely. Foosion posted a screenshot in the coruscate thread, but there are still somethings left for me to implement before the sidebar can go.

Hello, I'm having little difficulties with a code. If you look at the screenshot, you will see that the artist is displayed on the first track of the album, although this is a Various Artists album. I'd like to display "Various Artists" when it is a VA album.



This is the code I use.


Can someone rewrite this to a working code please? I'd appriciate it alot!

EDIT: Never mind, I just figured it out. It was a faulty string somewhere in the global variables.

Suggestion:
I was thinking it might be handy to have a global color scheme for panel windows. E.g. in each component you could select the 'default' (black/white), 'global' (which is specified somewhere in foo_ui_columns), or the usual user settings.

Obviously this would have to be supported by individual components, but foo_ui_columns could provide the global settings.

(...or is this already supported somehow and I just missed it??)

stripe/ben

What will be new in 0.1.3 except maybe the configurable layout? Even if that's a pretty big thing.

I would like to see the ColumnsUI-interface providing ColumnsUI-variables (a stack of all $puts()), so that the ColumnsUI-variables can also be used by its panels e.g. trackinfo - would be neat at least.

ATM you have to configure everything twice (even though copy & paste is your best friend)

edit: ATM...

http://music.morbo.org/wiki/columns_ui:req...s:requests_list

*drooling* But these are not at all necessarily implemented by 0.1.3, right? They're just future feature requests? Because they all seem to me like hard developer work.

I dont know yet - nothing else 'major' as yet if thats what you wanted to know.

Your talking about global variables, right? Yeh I suppose so, it would be for convienience rather than speed though.


I will eat my words if all those things are ever implemented.

Meh, I really like the sidebar, but I'll trust your judgement .

Hopefully He'll add the ability to treat the main playlist as a panel, so we'll get the ultimate freedom

Actually, I'd like to see the "columns" part of columns UI divorced from the main component. You could then retain the awesome panel framework, global vars, .fcs, and whatnot, but have a completely modular playlist component. Call it foo_ui_panels and foo_uie_columns respectively or something like that

I'd like to download and print the columns_ui documentation (as I did with playlist_tree and others plugin): is there a printer friendly version of it?

Or, at least, a 'one big html' to not have to spend hours in clicking on links to pages, then print, then go back, then click again.... etc.

Thanks.

Actually, something like a non-trackspecific global string which makes its vars also available to other stuff - may speed up things alot.

FCSs which have stuff like color-schemes - or generally make lots of use with color-calculations (especially the $blend function) - are currently the slowest FCSs. Thats because $blend() and color-calcs is a cpu-hog. However, this is stuff which theoretically only needs to be done once - not for every track.

In other words, FCSs could overload their most resource-hungry code to a non-trackspecific global string.

BTW: if you're playing with implementing global vars which can be used by other stuff - may i provide a slight reminder about the exposed background-color which currently can only be defined manually? Would be cool if there would be a global-var which can be used to override the manual-setting of the exposed bg-color.

thanks for columns ui.
- Lyx

What is tag to create an column Filzesize?

"%_filesize% MB" don't work correctlly

results in

5.76 MB

Thanks

You will still beable to have the equivilent of the sidebar, except not be limited to having it on the left.

Yes, that change has been made already

I could separate the components, but to be honest it will just leave a lack of fail-safe defaults, and an updating mess.

Unfortunately its not possible to do that ATM. I'll try and look into if any addon or something for the wiki exists to do something like that.

Adjusting exposed bg colour would have to be done via a non-track global string. It may be implement into 0.1.3, Im not sure yet.

It would be useful being able to lock one or more columns to the left while scrolling horizontally. It would even be better to be able to lock ALSO to the right side (I'm thinking of the track length i.e.).
Sometimes it would be useful to have the horizontal scolling work by column and not by pixel. Yes, I know, if you have a very large column it could become clumsy but I think for the most part it would just be better.

About the WIKI.

I'm not an expert so let me ask:

is the wiki a bunch of files?

can we reach the parent dir via web?

perhaps there is some tool around to automatically convert such a structured html doc into a pdf or some other printable format.
I remember there was something around that did the same with help files. But that was just one file.

Feature request (or an explanation if it's just there and I didn,t noticed)

I'd like to be able to change the columns layout according to some infos I have in the tracks (to avoid incosistency, I can add a 'layout' field).
I mean: with classical tracks I want to see some infos that I don't want with modern music. I know I can do this with the playlist filter but I have to plan in advance,have to go in the config and duplicate the columns.
Probably, it would be better having a popup list of different layouts from which I can choose one - classical; jazz; pop/rock; supertagging; wife; etc. - even for on-the-fly playlists (unplanned).

Last, you should really make something to let the playlist variables be available at least in the status bar (_playlist_total etc). It's not the best having to spend a column with 9500 times the same value just to know how many tracks you have in that playlist. And when you are servicing your collection it might be vital.

Thanks.

P.S. If you need beta testers, I have my PC-jukebox with the finished work on a network and usually do the testing on another machine on the same network and pointing to a backup of the main db so, I think it's the best environment to test.

Bye from a gray and rainy Italy.

Not really eloquently possible. But you can turn on 'auto-sizing' mode and lock the size of those columns, for a similar effect.

I see your point, bit I think it would just be to clumsy in practice.

Yes, it is a bunch of text files, but that is not particulary useful.

I looked around and all I saw was exporting a single page to html/pdf. Not particulary useful, but does get you something more printable. To use the html export feature, add ?do=export_html to the end of the url (e.g. http://music.morbo.org/wiki/columns_ui:col...?do=export_html )

Basically preset support? It would be nice but I dont think it will be in 0.1.3 unfortunately.

It would only be shown on the status bar when a track is playing though. You could just highlight them all and goto properties.

Not ATM

I'm wondering if there is somekind of help file, about setting the colors ands everything in columns_ui. hope to hear from you guys

@xonecas:
- look at post #1 of this thread
- foobar2000>preferences>display>ColumnsUI>Global>Button 'Tools' (above 'Apply') > Global help
- look at some ColumnsUI-formattings and learn from them

...so he came to that party and asked the others how to have fun, here, in life and in general

edit: grammar

where do i get the last ver plz put a sticky attachmnt here so i getit without hassle

*bangs head*

Start reading from page 1 until you come across the post....

hmmm, 74 pages or so, good luck
i really don't have evenings to spend seraching for latest version
instead that you better give a direct link or reattach?

ffs, first post. If you would've done what he suggested you would've already found it. You have time to bother other people to use their time but not to do what they tell you?

sorry, finding this freeware plugin here is harder than to find most of warez ;-)
i were sent to author page from kolimpaa but found only old version.
im not complaining just explaining why asked for that.
ok give me a break, i will have some effort getting this

The very first post in the thread currently says:

...and the two links are direct links to the download, now exactly how much easier could it possibly be?

i didn't get its in the first post, thanks and sorry

You have seriously got to practice actually reading the replies you get, instead of just asking your questions over and over. But OK now, everything's fine if you found what you wanted. Just pay attention in the future, and remember that important, up-to-date information is almost always located in the first post of the thread.

Sorry, I can't figure this out. In Columns UI, I'm trying to make a track # column I created sort numerically (so, when sorted by that column, I'll get track 1, 2, 3, 4... instead of track 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4...). I don't see any function to pad %TRACKNUMBER% with leading zeroes.

$num(%tracknumber%,2)

Hi. I just discovered the beauty of the UI collumn today downloaded a bunch of compenents and got them working for the most part. Very good stuff big thumbs up to all those programmers and members that put in the effort to create and hone them. I have a question now though. Is it possible to change the colors of the Foobar window? I'm thinking it is something controlled by windows itself.

Does anyone know the window messages (wparam) for columnsUI ?

Awesome, thanks!

i apologize if this has already been brought up (this thread is intimidatingly huge and hard to sift through), but could there please be a HEX->RGB color converted as well as the RGB->HEX one?

it's nice to use hex values and avoid fewer parentheses, but once i do that, i need to go to some website or use some graphics program to locate the color on RGB again.

XDrop is a fine tool to remember used colors - the given Hex-value has to be changed as foobar doesn't use RGB but BGR (so FF0000 (red) becomes 0000FF - don't know why Peter did it like that ).

How do I get it so that the columns automatically resize to become the size of the longest title (or artist, album, etc...)?

I have a small request. Would it be possible to add a StatusBar.SEPERATOR function to the ColumnsUI syntax?