Ah, didn't see I can put all into the layout. Thank you all!

This is probably a dumb question, but is it possible to get rid of the active-item frame?

If so, how?

If not... could it be? :p

Another thing is how if the buttons are images, any text or progress-type bars are not properly scaled/centered in the toolbar.

If you add a new panel, it has to start with some size. Also note if you make changes to the layout (i.e. resize stuff) through the main window whilst the configuration window is open, the previous layout in preferences will be applied when you click apply/close the preferences.


I hope to add dragging them around in preferences later on Its only "pre-alpha" so not everything is there.

It can do that if it implements the splitter API

15 seconds That's quite excessive Well the good news is its all been rewritten in the next version, and the backend to the preferences page does not suck quite as much. So I hope its faster It maybe repainting whilst populating the tree is slowing it down, so I'll prevent that too.

Dragging panels around through UI: its complicated. I think a good accessible preferences page is allows a bit more in flexibility (e.g. hiding captions) but sacrifices in ease of use.

Beyond locking it: no.

The problem with exporting the layout to a file currently, is that panel configuration data could contain data pertaining to your computer (e.g. file paths in buttons toolbar). So it needs changes in panel API to fix that. I'll make them for next version (better now than later..) so this can maybe be implemented later.

I would say: it maybe your visual style. For certain common controls if a visual style specifies a font for it then common control will use it instead of whatever I set. So maybe your visual style is specifying a font for the header control. In that case you can either hack your visual style, complain to whoever made it, or find another one (default XP ones are fine).

It refreshes from the media library, not from your hard drive. There is a rescan media library menu item in the library menu.

The position of my .png buttons keeps moving vertically. One (reproducible) thing that causes this is changing the desktop background.

normal position:

after changing background:


XP pro sp2, no 3rd party visual styles (using stock "windows classic" theme)
Columns UI 0.1.3 pre-alpha 17v6

Make your PNGs higher for each button -- that way, they won't be able to move around.

Higher images will just make the splitter area/bar become higher, and they will still move around.

Do your buttons use transparency?

Yes, but only on the left and right sides. Not the top or bottom.
The pngs are 16 pixels high (x 32w). The splitter bar is being rendered with 5 pixels of vertical space at the top and at the bottom, for a total of 26 pixels in height. The only other things in the horizontal splitter are another set of buttons (same sized), and a seekbar.

Try padding the height of your buttons to 20 or 32 px with transparency.

Hi, I'm getting this error:

Failed to load DLL: foo_ui_columns.dll
Reason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.


This is Foobar 0.9, with the latest columns.dll (downloaded today). I'm guessing that I need some dlls etc?

thanks.

It doesn't matter if the images are padded with transparency or not. Increasing their height in any way will in turn increase the overall height of the splitter bar (which I don't want), and make no difference.

I'm sorry, I've been searching for hours and I might need glasses or something, but I can't see why it keeps on failing :

I want to use custom buttons. I use foobar 0.9, columns_ui 0.1.3 pre-alpha 17v6.

At first I thought it was my VS' fault, but even when I use default windows themes it does the following : I launch foobar, I load the .fcb file, il loads the buttons (i can actually see them). I close foobar, I start it again, the buttons are gone!

Is it a UXtheme problem? But I saw some of you using Visual Styles too! Well, what's wrong with me? Any clue?

Thanks!

Can you point me to the fcb file you are trying to import? Also when you next start foobar, all the buttons are gone, right? Thanks.

First of all, thanks for trying to help me, it's very nice of you.

Second: i've tried various .fcb in fact, a few from this topic, and even those linked here.

A few precisions:
- win xp SP2
- ux theme modified dll (last version i guess)
- test with various themes (clear looks, milk 2.0, default playschool win xp, default old style win).

And yes : the buttons appear, and when I close and start again my foobar they're gone, leaving me with an empty area, unless I specify "display image+text"

Again : THanx

So the buttons still show up correctly in the customisation dialog? When you say you selected "display image+text", what are you changing it from? [edit] Also check for any errors in the console after startup.

Can you import an fcb (that doesnt work), close foobar, and upload your foobar2000.cfg (its in %appdata%\foobar2000 or foobar2000 install directory if you disabled per-user settings)

Thanks

OK, it is official: I am a dumbass

I did not even have the idea of looking at the console, even though I use it very often with other plugins, it said :



And I was like : wtf?? it is here! But I thought it should be in /components, and in fact it should be in /

Sorry for that guys. Awesome job musicmusic

(I just realized that "preferences" is mispelled in the console output I quoted, nothing fundamental though )

Ok thanks for isolating that

Actually after thinking about it I had a suspicion it was because you put them in the components folder. But I'm not too sure why it works initially I'll add it to the FAQ since I've seen it reported in another thread too.

Also thanks for noticing that typo

That doesn't make much sense. Are you sure you haven't installed a 0.8.3 version of Columns UI in 0.9? The current version is at http://music.morbo.org

Hi. What exactly does the $calculate_blend_target() function do? I can see it in your default configuration of Columns UI, but there is no description for it... or maybe it's that simple I can't see it

It takes the sum of the red, green and blue components of the colour, and outputs "0" if it is >= 128x3, "ffffff" otherwise. I'm not sure how useful it is outside of the default script

Thanks for your reply I have one more little request...

Could you please paste here your source code for $OffsetColor() function, or any hint how do you achieve this effect (for example r=(r2-r1)*percent+r1 --or something...).

I'm making some application that uses something similar to $OffsetColor(), and I can't get it to work properly...

It just literally offsets the colour.

where strtoul_n is my own function but I figure you don't need it

musicmusic, would it be possible to have a tooltip option for the playlist tabs? Something customisable would be cool. It's just that sometimes I'd like to know how many tracks / how long the tracks are in the playlist quickly without actually selecting the playlist.

Thanks for all your hard work again! Really looking forward to the new presets system

Thank you very, very much, musicmusic You've just saved my life (and a lot of time ) But I've got one more little request (I promise it is the last time... well, for next 10 minutes at least ) - Which system colors do you use as your default values for "Text", "Selected text", "Background", "Selected background", "Selected background (no focus)". Certainly you've got it declared somewhere in your code, so one small Ctrl-C -> Ctrl-V would cause big smile on my face I'm making some sort of CustomListBox, and I'm using the same coloring scheme as you in your default configuration for Playlist View (I hope you don't have anything against it), because it looks great on every XP style (and on "98" style, too).

And I've got one small problem. When I use System Colors in my app, and change them for example in Desktop -> Display -> Properties -> ..., they won't change (in my app) until I restart my application. Should I process any message or something to notice that XP Theme has changed?...

BTW, I'm really looking forward for new beta of Columns UI. I don't know if it was good idea to write the changelog before releasing plugin - now I check your site every 5 minutes to see if there is new version available

WM_THEMECHANGED for XP themes or WM_SETTINGCHANGE for general system settings including colors. The latter is also available on Windows versions prior to Windows XP.

Edit: I got confused with WM_SETTINGCHANGE and WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE. See musicmusic's post below.

The last colour is new (COLOUR_SELECTED_TEXT_NO_FOCUS), when I noticed standard list view does that too.

[edit]You may prefer to use GetSysColorBrush for your brushes, if your colours aren't customisable. These change automatically with system colour changes and don't need to be destroyed.[/edit]

Indeed, that was the very idea

There is a notification for the theme change, but the one you need is WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE
As indicated in the atricle, its sent to top-level windows, and you have to forward to any child common controls.

Once again, you are my hero

Thank you for your effort and for your time.

You can just add a buttons toolbar without any buttons to be used as your 'spacer'.

I've seen in several of these screenshots that some of you have themes in which the color of each different artist is different.

I would like something similar for my theme. I've downloaded some of your themes with this functionality but I cannot figure it out; I'm rather... new... at scripting.

I would just like it so Artist One is color A, and Artist Two is color B. Artist 3: color A, Artist 4: color B. Artist 5: color A... etc.

Could anyone explain how to do this for a newbie?

PS: I have searched throughout the board but to no avail given the tremendous amount of posts. Could someone please point in the correct direction? Thanks a lot.

Please don't double post.

I tried quite hard but I couldn't reproduce it. I also don't quite understand where that extra space is coming from if your images are 16px in height. Nonetheless, it should be fixed in next version.

Tooltips in columns does not work on my system. Is it normal?
(FB2K V0.9, ui-columns Version 0.1.3 pre-alpha 17v5, Win 2K SP4)
Edit:Noticed it was fixed with V6. Please apologize and remove this post if necessary.

litle question: i´d like to switch the time system in my infopanel from 12hour base to 24 hour support, how to do that? still using 8.3

Um ... is there a way to use conditions to only show a column when a specific tag is present somewhere in the actual library? For example, i have an album thats a special edition or somewhat, in this cases i add the tag "albumcomment", but just a few of my discs have this tag, so when i use the album list and create a playlist with only one album (as i mostly do) without this tag, there's is an empty column, what doesn't look very good ... so it would be nice if the colums could disappear automatically ^^

Edit: I've overseen the Filter Type for playlists ... but I don't know how to use it anyway :/. Suggestions? ^^

I don't know if anyone's reported this yet, but the latest foo_ui_columns with foobar 0.9 doesn't work on Windows Vista Build 5342. When I select Columns UI in the "New Interface found" box, I get an "Unhandled Exception : Bad allocation" error.

I'll understand, of course, if this doesn't get fixed for some time

Strange Is there a Windows XP compatibility mode ?

Were you running in something like VMware, Virtual PC etc. ?

I'll try and investigate myself, and you should see if it still happens in the next build of Windows Vista (and report it as a bug, why not ).

After starting fb2k 0.9 with http://music.morbo.org/download/unstable/f....1.3-pa17v6.7z:

"Programmfehler - Foobar2000.exe hat Fehler verursacht und wird geschlossen ..."
"Application error - Foobar2000.exe has caused errors and will be closed"

http://music.morbo.org/download/unstable/f...0.1.3-pa17v5.7z works fine.

It's a fresh full install fb2k0.9 on a fresh win2000 SP4/Updaterollup1.2. Columns ui has album list and track info panel loaded.

Try putting gdiplus.dll in your foobar2000 installation directory: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

Just a small feature request for the Layout page.
Is it possible add something to distinguish how an object in the list is oriented.
Perhaps something like, adding a v or h to the end of what is already there...
ie. Splitter-h or Album Art-v
Instead of clicking on the object to find out which way it is oriented.

musicmusic could you add a "settings..." shortcut to the context menu of the album list panel that opens its preferences page?

Hi, is it still possible to sort only the selected items in the playlist by clicking the column header? I can't find this option in any of the settings page for ColumnsUI. (I also tried searching unsuccessfully in this thread and the wiki.)

In the next version, it displays "Horizontal splitter" and "vertical splitter" in the tree for those splitters. The orientation setting has been changed to a caption orientation setting only.

Ok

No; it was axed as it was considered the most useless option of all
I would suggestion you use the contextmenu on the selection or column title or assign a keyboard shortcut to one of the "Edit/Selection/Sort/.." commands.

musicmusic about AlbumList Panel it would be great if we could have a checkbox to sort the playlist before creating it. Either that which would use foobar's main sorting method or a text field so we can specify what we want.. I hope you'll find this worthy of your time
Thanks

Hey Everyone,

I have just recently switched to Foobar 0.9 and am loving it. However I am having a slight problem with the display of the title in the playlist panel. I am still in the early stages of learning the formatting and how it all works and a little help would be good!

When I switched to 0.9 with the fcs I was using it started putting the artist in the title column as well as the artist column. I managed to remove the artist from the title column, but now any large audio files that have cue files along with them don't display correctly, i.e. Putting in the correct artist for each track in the title column as it is in respect a compilation disk.

Hope that all makes sense, I use alot of cue files and so I would really like to try and get this fixed!

ANy help would be appreciated!

Oh and the code for my title column...

Does enabling Make date info available, also give access to Julian Date?
I have unsuccessfully tried e.g. %_system_julian_date%.
If it's not currently available, would you consider adding it? It would be more efficient and cleaner, than computing it from other date fields.


This sounds very promising and I'm all for progression, but does it mean that I'll be able to exactly replicate the current sidebars behavior? You see, I'm rather attached to it...


Playlist name generation
I like the way playlist names can be generated upon drag and drop. Do you think you could make it possible to send files through this processing, also when using "send to new playlist" in Album List Panel? And how about adding a "regenerate playlist name" to the context menu, when a playlist is right clicked?

The field name is %_system_julian_day%.

Yes, a locked vertical splitter behaves like the sidebar in the new version. There's two notable differences:
-You add panels through preferences rather than the context menu
-No way to hide/show it through keyboard shortcut.

1) I wasn't planning on changing unless it really confuses people. 2) I'm not sure yet how I will overcome that or if it will be in beta 1.

The latter: maybe. But what kind of situation did you think would cause you to need it? In regards to the former question, the album list panel should use a useful name already.

Sidebar question: If I put two panels into sidebar and hide both titles of them, I'm no more able to add/remove panels to the sidebar. There's no way to get the context menu for this. Is that correct? So I have to reset sidebar in the columns ui preferences and rebuild it.

Correct? Or is there an easier way?

Had the same problem but I thought it was my ignorance...

Alessandro

Please fix this musicmusic... Rightclicking on a playlist in the playlist switcher and clicking remove doesn't display a confirm window. I was renaming my playlists and clicked on the wrong text, very annoying. :/