Right click on Columns Playlist -> Change base -> eg. Horizontal Splitter if you want to arrange panels horizontal. Right click does the trick.

Aah..it was that simple. I tried right-clicking on the empty area at first, but never clicking on the columns playlist entry.
Thanks.

Thanks a bunch! That was confusing me too. Time to write a tutorial! lol

I right-clicked, and ended up with a big grey nothing in the playlist view, forcing a total reset (no big deal, I wasn't really happy w/what I had, so far...).

I second this idea, perhaps you could set a hot key to toggle between the two layouts.

Welcome

Good to know

For toolbars I think generally you are better off with them in the toolbar area. For panels I dont think spacing at the edges in the layout area would look right. The spacing between panels may be increased a px or made configurable.

The toolbars should have the same background as standard ui In the layout area it doesn't use that background, it may look odd if you only have a few separators showing.

It was removed from foo_albumlist. There's a post explaining it somewhere I'm sure, but I think it wasn't compatible with the new branches for multiple fields feature.

Have you not answered your own question? If you don't want it, use the enable/disable toggle instead of the show/hide toggle. The separator is there so you can double click on it or drag it to show the sidebar again.

Its sort-of by design: the panel hides in the direction of its orientation, so that if there is a caption only the caption is visible. This in turn makes the splitter shrink in that direction, so that if there is a caption, only the caption is visible.

I'll change it so that panels always hide in the direction of their parent splitter, which is actually useful

I don't currently have plans for this, sorry.

Oh. I thought that was the point of the 'toggle area', i didn't know you could double-click it to bring it back out when that was disabled.

Thanks, i guess that solved my problem.

Awesome. I like this idea as well. I just started using the sidebar and tried the auto-hide function. My resolution is high and its hard to hit the hot spot sometimes. A good alternative is is to add a show sidebar button to the toolbar.

You know you can add a show/hide button to the tool bar yourself, right?

(I mean, i can't tell if you're suggesting that as a feature or just trying to help the people you quoted.)

I am suggesting it to the guys I quoted. Toolbar > Customosie.... > [Main menu item] View/Show sidebar.

Can the album list panel be made to remember the last position it's at, even after foobar is restarted ? That'd be cool.

Is it possible to enable drag and drop from fb2k with columns UI (dragging to another application/instance)?

It works with the default ui, so at the moment I have to stick to default, but I would love to change to columns UI

It's been possible as long as I can remember... just right-click-drag your files where ever you want them to go.

also make sure that if you are running foo_pretty pop that your update to the latest version as i know there was a drag and drop bug relating to the dotnetv2

otherwise if your not using that plugin disregard

I think I saw this mentioned earlier, could the album list panel remember it's stance (which tree items were expanded/collapsed) between foobar sessions (restarts of the progam)?

Is there any way you could make a Now Playing list? When a file is played from a specified playlist (for example "*Browser*") all songs currently in the list would be automatically moved to a playlist called "Now Playing." That way, you could use the album list or foo_browser but still have a playlist that won't be affected. This could be done manually, but its a lot easier if its just automatic. Mediamonkey has this feature and I've found it really useful.

Also, I'm still hoping for some kind of implementation of database searching in a panel. To quote myself from many months ago:

Thanks a lot!

When I enable the "locked" function for "Columns Playlist" tab from Preferences --> Display --> Columns UI --> Layout --> "Columns Playlist", foobar2000 looks like this.

My layout for Columns UI looks like this:

Splitter (orientation vertical)
|
|--Playlist tabs (orientation horizontal)
|
+--Columns Playlist (orientation horizontal)

When I disable the "locked" function, fb2k looks normal. I'm using foobar2000 0.9 and Columns UI 0.1.3 pre-alpha 17v6.

This is more of a suggestion and an annoying of mine than a bug.

I would like it if you could completely disable the active item frame. With certain configs it looks stupid having an active item frame, especially those configs that utilize frame-top and frame-bottom. Using a custom active item frame doesn't look right either on some configs.

Anyhow, what's the chances of that happening?

Keep up the good work!!

i got some problem:
when i rename the artist field of certain tracks with masstagger of my foobar 8.3 it shows the artist name and "(...)" afterwards, how can i erase that?

Maybe you have inadvertently entered a carriage return after the name?

HTH.

Alessandro

Is this a bug? the menu text doesnt vertically center itself, and the seekbar seems to have issues when scaled above its normal size. I know its the buttons causing the increase in height of the toolbar, but even in 0.8.3 it was scaling both properly

I noticed a lighter colour border is drawn around the panels within a splitter. I tried a few different visual themes and the same thing happened on all of them except the classic windows theme where the border was the same colour as the toolbar face.

This is what I mean: Picture.

I'm not sure if that is a visual glitch or is intended.

I think that's normal. Locking an item means something like: "keep this item's size/location no matter what size the window is". What were you trying to achieve?

Is already there a way to change the transport buttons?

Well, this is a good suggestion for the sidebar!

I have a very similar problem : it is also possible to have a splitter (in layout) which is set to "autohide" and I don't found any way to configure the delay or to create a show / view button.

Any ideas ?

Would it be possible to be able to assign menu items/keyboard shortcuts to show/hide each splitter? This would allow you to do away with the sidebar altogether, as well as make the entire thing much more flexible..

It would be quite difficult to implement this I'd imagine.

As above.

Sorry, you've lost me there

I may add layout presets to next version If I did then it would be changable from menu. It would be good for a default playlist tabs preset too.

It uses the sidebar settings for now, but that will change soon


I think it may be inevitable. But maybe difficult to implement, I'll have to see..

The main issue with this right now for me is the fact that whenever you change something in the layout, you have to resize everything.
And the fact that you have to right click > move up/down several times in a row some times, and that you can't drag something and move it into another splitter. This would be great but I admit maybe not worth the time coding it.. I'll let you judge that.

And again as I already asked in PM, global tab-support or at least AlbumList with tabs would be absolutely awesome.. Having tabs acting like splitters in the Layout dialog being the better solution I think.

Well thanks anyway, it's great as it is already.

hmm, another thing - adding changes to the layout takes a really, really long time right now. Are there any planned speed improvements in this regard?

Someone in another thread also suggested switching to a Office 2003-style layout, which would be interesting. With every change taking about 15 seconds just to appear, something a little more instantaneous would be nice.

To add to this, is there a way to lock a panel in width and height or perhaps set a maximum and minimum for both so that maximizing foobar won't change the panels to undesired sizes?

I like the playlist to take up as much space, but for other panels, I'd like them to stay within a certain size and not expand so much.

You can lock any panel you want from resizing by checking "locked" in the layout preferences.

I'll try to port my 0.83 to 0.9 soon, I am totally stuck with the Layout page. I do not really understand the concept behind the splitters, "base" and whatever there is. I wasn't able to have trackinfo panel on top of all, as I have it in 0.83.

I clicked and clicked, did a "change base", and all the rest disappeared...

May someone point me to information about the new layout scheme?

.To musicmusic.

My suggestion is import and export layout from/to any file, as I can import/export now columns and titles from/to fcs file.

FCS -columns view,
FCB - buttons view and also
FCL - layout view.

Story layout in foobar.cfg is not good idea.

Squeller: Change the base to an splitter to arrange multiple panels. Use horizontal splitters to arrange panels horizontal (who would have thought) and vertical splitter to arrange them vertically. An example:
You want to put the track info panel on top of the playlist. It would look like this:

If you, for example, want to put the playlist switcher next to the playlist you need an horizontal splitter:

Hope you understand it now

Could someone explain what the meta field to edit text box is for in the columnsiu->playlist view->columns ?

From the Columns UI Wiki, "Specifies the metafield to edit in inline metafield edit operations in this column. An empty value disables inline metafield editing on this column. See here for more information about inline metafield editing."

I guess I assumed that when I "lock" columns playlist in layout settings, it cannot be modified without "unlocking" it. Instead the columns playlist was covered with that green thing you can see in the image I posted.

Not sure about "all tracks" couse i have alot. No any visualization was used. Will try to send soon.

Newbee question, is it possible to change the top left icon (main window bar) in foobar 0.83?

/Dohemm

(The layout page)


Thank you! One more question: The latest columns ui doesn't have the option "list all toolbars". Is there a way I can put the track info panel on top of menu and toolbar?

Insert the panel into either a vertical or horizontal splitter.

I.E. Right click the splitter, insert panel -> panels -> track info

You cannot do it within Foobar itself. You need to use a resource hacker.

I have a minor problem with the newest Columns UI (0.1.3 pre-alpha 17v6).

When I try change the font of column title, the change doesn't apply.
I have gone through the preferences dialog, but can't find anything
that would cause this behaviour. I have also tried to restart foobar.
Can anyone confirm this?

Not if the menu is still a toolbar, if you have the menu inside of your layout config it is possible:

Hi,

I'm having trouble refreshing directory trees in the album list panel. it just doesn't work. Is this a bug or am I the only person with this issue? Please help, this is the only thing to be improved that I can think of. Thanks!

It worked, thanks!

Feature Requests:
* Columns in the Playlists list. I think it would look better when not only viewing the name of the playlist. I for one display name, number of items and playlist time.
* Sorting playlists. By name, number of items or time.
* More toolbar properties. Ability to set alignment, width and height of toolbars. Both percent and pixel would be nice for sizing. Dynamic sizing is sometimes a pain atm.

Keep up the good work.

Ability to add a spacer as a toolbar object would do just that (well not for the height but it would still be great) and should be easy to implement. And it would allow people to make their "intersections" between panels wider (I know someone requested that) by adding a spacer between every panel and then resizing it..

an odd request perhaps, but would it be possible to get columns_ui to use the width/resize info in such a way that it optimally used the space available in every playlist for displaying the info in the columns? (ie in the 'performer' field i sometimes have a conductor/orch/soloist and sometimes only a soloist, but the columns can't be resized in such a way that it then decides it has more space for for instance the 'title' track, which might require it (long names do happen after all)..

Basically this would require a data width recognizing ability for the column as well as the possibility to sort of save the width info per column per playlist..
hope this came out in an understandable way