One suggestion ....

Please integrate the DB explorer just as the playlist switcher is .. It would be perfect. The only reason i did not switch to UI columns is that I use the album list (the new one in V0.8) on the left side of my screen and I can't resize it (Width) because of the buttons so it does not give enough room to the playlist switcher + the playlists themselfes on the right side of the screen.

It would be nice to see everything integrated with resizing options. (.. and a single click in the album list would refresh, let's say the "default" playlist).

Adding a search engine in this integrated interface would make it perfect IMHO.

BTW I have noticed a small bug: when you use the autoresize feature, it is still allowed to resize the columns headers (with no effect which is "normal" but creates a gap between column headers and the columns).

Turns out only a simple change was required (no need for completely different sorting alogorithm), expect it in the next version.


You could probably mess around with the width and resize settings and get something like that..


I dunno.. Everything seems fine here. Upload your .fcs file if you want, and I will have a look..


bold - you cant right now, i dont know how easy that would be to implement.
colour - you can change the background colour if that is what you mean. it is the third colour in the colour string.


If I understood you correctly, maybe you have some $if(%_isplaying%...) somewhere. Or maybe your string is in incorrect format.

If you require further help, please post the affected string (if custom colour is selected, the column's colour string, otherwise the global colour string), and the actual colours shown, or a screenshot.


Yes, after 0.1 I will see what I can do.


I will fix that one day.

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Anyway, my main reason for posting, is if there is anyone with the xp sp2 preview installed. Because I installed it (for the sake of it..), and foobar + columns ui activated would cause foobar2000.exe not to terminate properly.

I found the cause, it is very random (CreateMappedBitmap + monochrome bitmap), and as such I dont know if it is something messed up on the computer, or something else (I am not even sure if it started from sp2, I can't see what else it is though).

So if there is anyone with sp2 installed, please post whether you have this problem if not. (If so, I will post a temporary fix).

musicmusic:
ok. i've just ul it to the config thread

psynapse:


musicmusic:


Actually, the problem turned out to be that I didn't have an $if(%_isplaying%...). Once I added that, it worked fine.

Thanks for the help.

Erm, you've got a missing $ sign

Try changing that..

Musicmusic, can you make it so double clicking on the playlist sidebar seperator toggles the sidebar between hidden and showing?

i'm sorry, but i can't spot it, maybe i need stronger glasses
where is it ?

EDIT:
JESUS ***** CHRIST!
i really DO need stronger glasses, itwas in the $if2 ... lol!
i useually don't miss that kind of utterly stupid mistakes

Hot damn, this $hit is awesome!

Hi musicmusic, it's great a new version of beta6 released but it's regreted that can not be download. Is there other download site?

and I suggest you post a new thread of foo_columns, so that you can edit it to add link to newest version.

Just noticed that ctrl+clicking a track doesn't do anything... Any chance of getting that fixed?

I'm having the same problem. Holding down the Ctrl key doesn't allow multiple selections.

You mean you can't access my website? I dont have anywhere to mirror it, maybe I could upload it to the third party website, or spase could mirror it on his columns fcs website when its done (if you could, spase, thanks)



The official release is always at the same link, and well the webpage is supposed to do what you suggest (I realise you probably cant access it, however).



Fixed, it extends the selection only now (but not deselect, since it would conflict with ctrl + drag, you can use alt+ctrl for that)

beta 7

changelog:
beta 7
- sorting (by column) now has a "memory" of items previous location in playlist (i.e. so you can combine sorts, e.g. click title column then artist column will get you an artist - title sort)
- tidied up prefs a bit
- option to rename playlists by double clicking on them
- some fixes in playlist sidebar
- fixed some problem exhibited with themes and/or xp sp2
- can no longer resize columns in auto sizing mode
- status bar is correctly set above other controls; i.e. no sillyness when window sized small
- on startup, playlist should not visibily appear before everything else anymore
- can hide/show individual columns (easy access in header context menu)
- ctrl click for multiple selections
- when importing, relevant parts of ui are updated (background colours etc.)
- changed fcs file format slightly, so i dont have to break backwards compatibility in the future
- can double click on plist divider to hide/show it
- can use old global string behaviour if want (is simpler with colour codes, but is far slower)
- window title is only updated when actually changes (avoids problem when mouse over close etc. butttons, at least here)

again, config compatibliity for the columns is broken, so export your config first

i think this will be last beta, a couple RC will probably follow, so I can get out a final 0.1 (i.e. no major new features until post 0.1)

I can't import or export with new beta 7!!!
Under columns the import & export button don't work!

And when importing from main setting page it always sets Use old style = on in Globals

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Oops forgot to remove them

Try the ones on the main config page

Jeps I found them!!
But:
And when importing from main setting page it always sets Use old style = on in Globals

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Thanks, it was a bug in the exporting. It should be fixed if you redownload.

musicmusic, thanks again for your great job.
The new version is almost as ideal as I want.

However, there is one problem with beta 7 (beta 6 as well) with multibytes characters.
When using a color code indicator (, $char(3) or $rgb()) just after
multibytes characters in Display strings, color codes dont work correctly.
Although I dont know if its because of your fault, I hope this can be fixed.

What's doing option "enble autohide plalists" ? I think it hide or "open" window with playlists, right ? so why in my foobar doesn't work ? or i'm wrong and this option is doing something alse

ps sorry for my english , I hope You understand what i wrote

beta7 is just great!

I'm a confused. If i download Beta7 and copy it to my component folder, Foobar says it's beta6.


Foobar 0.8.1 b2

Can't reproduce. Can you post a specific string that causes such a problem ?

I tried but it worked correctly.

Please remember $char(3)s and the global variables are not compatible, for some reason, and if that is what you are doing.


It hides the tabs/sidecar if there is only one playlist. Perhaps its time to finish the documentation..


Clear browser cache ?

ups!
cleared the browser cache and it was fine.
thank you! great work on beta7

This is by far my favorite UI -- Thanks so much for making it.

I still have a small issue with ctrl+clicking that bugs me, however. In the default UI, if you make a large selection (an album for example), then ctrl+click something later in the playlist to select it, then shift+click another file beyond that, it'll highlight everything between the ctrl+click and the shift+click without losing any other items you've selected.

In foo_ui_columns, any other selections are lost. Could you possibly add this feature in the next release? It's something I use quite often, for replaygain selections, for example.

sweet plugin ... the only one for me (until something better comes along )

just kidding ... i thought of some things that might be a cool addon (if possible)

1) have an alternate color scheme for the column the rest are being sorted by (win xp has something kinda like this ... when in detail view and selecting a column for sorting, that column boasts a differing color)

2) eliminate (or allow us to change) the mouseover color of the column header ... that blue just doesn't match my shoes if you catch my drift

3) i see alot of people use a modified iTunes style scheme (the light blue w/ white alternating rows) ... why not go all the way. iTunes has a single pixel column divider (it's like a light grey), something like that might calm the masses.

i have more but i seem to have forgotten them. maybe they'll come to me.

Hrm, that's weird...
Even your sample string didn't work here.
I've tested that on the default settings and I didn't use any global variables on it, but it still shows like this
[Screen Shot]

I'm using it with v0.8 on win2k sp4 Japanese.
The components I'm using with Columns UI are only
foo_id3v2.dll foo_input_std.dll foo_out_dsound_ex.dll.

Anyway, I uploaded the fcs file here.

Have you turned of Old Style Global String?
Have you remembered to get the new version (he fixed some errors short time after release)?

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Sure I have.
And I'm NOT using any Old Style Global String nor Global variables features.

Thanks.

Thankyou!



Can you disable the mouse cursor changing when hovering over the column seperators?

Anyway my vote for this ui to become the new standard interface

Yar I can not access the official site. So I always browes all threads to find a mirror, if possible:-)

Here is a mirror!!
UI Columns 0.1 Beta 8

It is mine!
There is also a link on my site!

My UI Formatting Strings (and download mirror)

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I see what you are saying - multiple selections are a bit of a bitch. Maybe I should just revert back to the old selection behaviours. I dont know.. Maybe as an option if it isnt too much hassle.

However, you can press ctrl up on the keyboard, and use space to select (it might take some time though..)


It works fine here: link

Anyway, your fcs file crashes here, this bug (with zerolength strings) is fixed if you redownload, thanks.

Image from your fcs file:



So I dont know.. Ill look into it anyway..


I havent found an easy way to do so.. Ill look into it anyway.

I didn't aware this bug, thanks.


So there might be something wrong in my system.
I'll also look for that.

Anyway, Columns UI is still my favorite component.
Thanks for the help. Keep up the good work!

koach:

From your screenshot, I think I can see what is going on.

Can you try adding a few extra characters (five or so at the end)?

e.g. $char(3)FF0000$char(3)脆脝$char(3)00FF00$char(3)脰脙$char(3)0000FF$char(3)blahbghbjgv

and if the result is different, post a screenshot. Thanks.


Thanks

I tried this, but the result was the same as before...

I don't know then. From your screenshot, I think an extra char 3 is getting in there there somehow, and you've also got one too many squares..

Does it work correctly with the standard ui? If so, I will make some kind of debug build to try and work out what is going on..

Anyone else on Win 2k sp4 with or without problems?

Sorry about that. This was because I used the font which doesn't contain 脝 nor 脙.
So there were too many squares instead of these chars.
When I use Arial Unicode MS, the result is:




Yes, it does.

I think I found the bug, thanks. Please re-download and try again, I bumped the version to beta 8 since I also fixed resizing columns in non-autoresizing mode.

My mirror is updated with beta 8!

UI Columns 0.1 Beta 8

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Wow! Now it works perfectly. Thanks!

Great work (as always)!
Only one request: Can you make every playlist save it's own column-widths? Of course that can't work with auto-resizing enabeled. I don't know if this is possible, cause problems or makes playlist-switching extremely slow, but at the moment I have to resize most colums if I change the playlist.

Thank Neksus! I get it from your site at last

@musicmusic: My first post in this thread so I'd like to take this opportunity to compliment you for your great work on this component.

A small bug report (0.1 beta 8):
"Enable double clicking to rename playlists" only works when "Enable middle/double clicking to add playlists" is enabled.

bug: the ctrl+left mouse work well for selecting but you cannot deselect an already selected item ... ... did I miss on select somewhere?

IIRC musicmusic said it's intended to be that way

It wouldn't cause any problems to implement, maybe some things to think about. I will think about it after 0.1 final (as an option of course).

Something you may want to try is to create multiple copies of the same columns, and use the playlist filters to set up different sets of columns for different playlists. That way, widths will be preserved but its a lot of hassle.. Depends on what exactly you want, really.


Thanks, fixed for next version.


If it bothers you poeple that much I will make it an option for next version..

Oh and documentation updated.

I think it's bothering (ctrl+left click behaviour) because it's been like this for ... centuries ... no but nevertheless it happens that sometimes you miss click an item and you dont really want to redo all your selection for one mouse error ...

Here's another one of my long posts. Feel free to ignore if the suggestions start getting too trivial :p

Using foobar 0.8.1 beta 3 and foo_ui_columns 0.1 beta 8 on Windows XP SP1.

Bugs:
- with custom buttons, the documnetation says the top-left pixel is for the transparent colour, when it's actually the bottom-left

- in the status bar, the width of 'Show selected tracks length' changes depending on whether the volume is shown (could very well be intentional and ignore if so) [pic]

Suggestions:
- the current order of checkboxes in the Columns conifg page is:
[ ] Show column [ ] Use custom sort spec [ ] Use custom colour spec
while the order of tabs is:
[ Display ][ Colour ][ Sort ]
could you change the order of the tabs to match the checkboxes (or vice versa) so that the two are consistent?

- support for a standard menu like default UI (not that anything's wrong with current buttons, but would be a nice addition if it's not too hard to implement)

- ability to lock a column's width (would be handy so you don't accidently resize columns such as dividers, etc.)

- support for ordering columns by dragging (in both Columns config page and UI)--convenient alternative to the Up/Down buttons

- have status bar show descriptions of highlighted menu commands (recently (?) added to default UI)

- remove the extra 5-pixel padding from the right of toolbar buttons (most evident when using custom buttons) [red arrow in this pic]

- if possible, change the background color of the seekbar to match the toolbar background [blue arrow in same pic]

- add tooltips for the playback buttons

- add buttons to toolbar for 'Stop after current' and 'Follow cursor' (taken from foo_tunes)--another convenience and a great alternative to going to the menu to check the status of these often-used commands (on a related note, a button for switching between Track Gain, Album Gain and disable ReplayGain)

- possibly not even possible and definately post-0.1 would be support of $crlf() in the playlist (these would make excellent album dividers--probably a dream request right up there with multiple fonts/bolding in playlist)


Pretty much. Has the potential to be very useful though--a user could have the top 'now playing' bar display all tag info (maybe even scroll :p) and bottom could show all tech info (foo_tunes has a rather visually-appealing implmentation).

Thanks for your time and excellent work :]

I think the best would be to implement a "foobar commands" bar (same like p layback but you define the buttons and bind the buttons to a command in the fb2k command list)

[quote=nIRV,Apr 3 2004, 02:36 AM]I think it's bothering (ctrl+left click behaviour) because it's been like this for ... centuries ... no but nevertheless it happens that sometimes you miss click an item and you dont really want to redo all your selection for one mouse error ...[/quote]
Actually i was wrong anyway, there wasnt any real reason for me changing it in the first place..

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]Bugs:
- with custom buttons, the documnetation says the top-left pixel is for the transparent colour, when it's actually the bottom-left[/quote]

You are correct, it is the bottom left. All I am doing here is using uLoadImage, and MSDN said first pixel so I assumed it was the top-left.. apparently not. If you want something better (mask for transaprency instead of this first pixel crap) I'd be happy to change it.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]
- in the status bar, the width of 'Show selected tracks length' changes depending on whether the volume is shown (could very well be intentional and ignore if so) [pic][/quote]

The extra space is because of the resizing thing... but I am not using the correct width for it, its about 10 pixels off. So you are correct its about 12 pixels wider in the second, thanks, it will be fixed.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]
Suggestions:
- the current order of checkboxes in the Columns conifg page is:
[ ] Show column [ ] Use custom sort spec [ ] Use custom colour spec
while the order of tabs is:
[ Display ][ Colour ][ Sort ]
could you change the order of the tabs to match the checkboxes (or vice versa) so that the two are consistent?[/quote]
Yes, i was going to change that and keep forgetting, thanks for the reminder.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- support for a standard menu like default UI (not that anything's wrong with current buttons, but would be a nice addition if it's not too hard to implement)[/quote]
Nope. If there is something wrong with the menu I'd rather fix it. There is no need for two menus..

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- ability to lock a column's width (would be handy so you don't accidently resize columns such as dividers, etc.)[/quote]
I suppose it could be done, but maybe you'd be hapier with the auto-sizing mode. You can press escape when resizing anyway.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- support for ordering columns by dragging (in both Columns config page and UI)--convenient alternative to the Up/Down buttons[/quote]Yes I was planning both.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- have status bar show descriptions of highlighted menu commands (recently (?) added to default UI)[/quote]Yes, I was just delaying implementing that..

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- remove the extra 5-pixel padding from the right of toolbar buttons (most evident when using custom buttons) [red arrow in this pic][/quote]Yes, that was pissing me off actually. I found the cause of that padding and it is gone for the next version.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- if possible, change the background color of the seekbar to match the toolbar background [blue arrow in same pic][/quote]I tried to fix that but didnt get anywhere. I may try again otherwise best I can do is put some border on it..

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- add tooltips for the playback buttons[/quote]Ok.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- add buttons to toolbar for 'Stop after current' and 'Follow cursor' (taken from foo_tunes)--another convenience and a great alternative to going to the menu to check the status of these often-used commands (on a related note, a button for switching between Track Gain, Album Gain and disable ReplayGain)[/quote]Maybe. Or maybe fully customisable toolbar (using menu actions) as discussed before. I dont know.

[quote=Silverbolt,Apr 3 2004, 03:16 AM]- possibly not even possible and definately post-0.1 would be support of $crlf() in the playlist (these would make excellent album dividers--probably a dream request right up there with multiple fonts/bolding in playlist)[/quote]Possible - yes. But variable heights would probably be a fair bit of work. I'll think about it after 0.1 anyway.

Thank you for your feedback.

is this still very buggy or pretty stable?

btw do you have to use strings for everything? or is there an ez way for ppl to just create columns and such