I second both of these requests, especially the first one. But it's not just the splitters that are causing the borders, ColumnsUI inserts the 1 pixel hairline border between any two panels.. including two identical panels sitting next to each other with border=none. As for the second, most of the individual panels would probably need to be adjusted for the background which is mostly outside the ColumnsUI developer control, but it would be nice if ColumnsUI atleast facilitated watever backend hooks need to be handled. The playlist though, I think is a reasonable request but there have been a lot of features being requested lately like removing the titlebar for fullscreen. And since eye candy usually takes a back seat to functionality with foobar, transparent/bitmapped backgrounds will probably be a low priority.

Nope, that doesn't work. Actually the multimedia keys are not defined at all under keyboard shortcuts. In Default UI it works anyway. I think there used to be an option in fb2k 0.8.x "Use default multimedia keyboard support" or something like that, so I guess this is built in to 0.9 nowadays? It seems very odd that this stops working when you use Columns UI?

If you go to File> Preferences> General> Keyboard Shortcuts. Then click [Add New], then click on the "Key" field down at the bottom, then press a MM key on your keyboard.. does anything appear in the "Key" box?

If so, you should be able to setup a hotkey directly in foobar .. if you want to use the hotkey outside of foobar (change tracks while playing a game) be sure to check the box for "Global Hotkey"

If not, then either something is interrupting your keyboard such as drivers or a util try uninstalling any bundled apps or driver that came with your keyboard. Alternatively your keyboard might not use the standard windows scancodes for MM keys you might want to check your keyboard's manufacturer's website to see if there are any drivers or utils you need to install to use your MM keys under windows (but since you indicated the keys work fine with the default interface this is probably not the case).

I too would like both of those to be implemented, so, Third!

Id also like to add this request to the list; Yotsuya worded it better than i can so...

Hi,
I don't know if anyone around here has this problem too, but I think this isn't wanted. So I think this is kinda bug report.
When I start playing a stream and the option under "Networking -> enable dynamic track titles" is deactivated, the item in the playlist loses its title etc.
In v0.8 the playlist kept the title of the stream and i.e. in foo_uie_trackinfo the dynamic title was shown. This is how I want it. ^^

I found the problem of my mm keys not working. Yotsuya was right, thank you! It turned out that the kX drivers was "stealing" the keys for me. If anyone else has this problem, make sure Multimedia keyboard support is disabled. The volume keys still work but you can't get OSD.

Just a tiny suggestion: Could you make the default "Inactive selection background (no focus)" color in the "Playlist switcher" R=228, G=228, B=235, which is the corresponding default color for the regular playlist and looks much better than using the same gray as the UI elements.

If i create different layout presets and change between them columns ui seems to "forget" the exact layout settings. The sizes of the different splitters and panels are set to a kind of default after switching, so are all my custom configurations for track info and album art panel.

Pressing "save all" after setting up and switching between the different layout presets doesn't help.

Or are the panels responsible for this problem? Maybe it has something to do with the way f2k is saving the configs?

I have noticed this behavior too I think it might be a bug somewhere. Foobar appears to save a lot of stuff about panel layout and settings when it exits. I think that [Save All] button only refers to the information on the preference tabs, not the settings for the panels themselves. The workaround I've come up with is to pick a layout, set it up exactly as I want it, then restart foobar. After the restart confirm your settings should have been saved, move to the next layout and repeat. Dont forget to restart foobar after changing each layout because if you switch to another layout any recent changes to your existing layout will be lost.

THX! I will check that...

I have a "noobie" question (I started using ColumnsUI a few days ago):

When I import fcs file, isn't it supposed to import everything, including the layout?
For me, it imports columns, title formatting and colors into the currently selected layout, so I need to rearrange/build the layout from scratch, and then to import fcs if I want to use it. Am I missing some settings or that's how it should work?

Is there any version out that supports foobar v0.9.2?

Thanks

Man, where have you been for the last year v0.1.3 beta 1v5

That's how it's supposed to work. That's why people post their layouts along with (in some cases) screenshots of the layout preferences page.

Ah, weird. I thought i already had tried that version.

Thanks

hi,
I have a little suggestion for further releases of columns_ui.
The "Auto Hide" function for panels is a nice idea, but there should also be a pin needle (in caption) to hold a panel if wanted by user...

Is there a setting to allow the playlist to shift focus to the playlist which is being added to from another playlist. In other words, if I add a track from playlist A to playlist B, I want foobar to swith focus to playlist B.

Dear musicmusic


I had a look at the feature requests list on your pages and I didn't see a key one (at least for me):

will you ever add the ability to have at least a second, independent playlist view?

Maybe we could use it as the old history panel or even as a way to show the queue content or anything else.

Thanks.

Is it possible to have multiple column configurations (ie all settings on Display>Columns UI>Playlist View) for each preset?

At the moment I can't define different column widths for a mini and a fullscreen preset, for example. Unless I'm missing something obvious..

What has happened with the stop icon? It works, except not in Foobar.




EDIT: fixed typo

Exporting entire layouts (along with configs) would be amazing.

May be a few dependancy problems, but you could have it generate a list of the used components, too.

What was the reason for changing the default buttons? Personally I think the new ones are ugly and perfer the older set. Is there a way to enable the older buttons?

I doubt it, but there are tonnes of nice buttons in the upload section.

I have become so acustomed to the default ones. Think there is a download for the default set? If not I will just switch back to the older version.

Suggestion: ability to customize name of newly created playlist.

Have you used the General preference for "Always send to playlist" when adding files from command line?

Hello musicmusic!

I don't know if it was ever requested - if yes so sorry (this thread is very long). It would be nice if the button toolbars would offer the opportunity to create buttons that don't apply a command but open a menu with several commands wich are defined in the configuration box. For example: I create a button with the name clipboard and add to this button the following commands fromm foosions foo_utils: "cut, copy, collect, paste, insert". So clicking this button opens a menu with exactly this commands.

Another type of having pop up menus for buttons would be to define a button as a node of your main/context menu. For example: you define a button as "Custom info" and this button opens the submenu with the scripts from foo_custominfo, wich are organized in submenus.


I hope you like the idea to think about it!

Have a nice day!

If you're referring to the old buttons from version 0.8x someone ported them and they're in the upload section

I don't know if this is the right spot to report this, but currently I have a small problem with in-line tag editing in foobar 0.9.3b1 with coloum_ui 0.1.3 beta1v5. In 0.9.2 if I edit a tag field then tab or shift+tab to go forward and back then it will goes normally but in this version it just goes out of in-line tad editing mode. Any idea?

Dunno if the problem is with Columns UI or foobar itself, but it would be fancy to be able to get the album average bitrate to columns UI. Is this possible?

Both the default UI and ColumnsUI work on a per-track basis. The information about the album average bitrate is not stored on a per-track basis unless you explicitly set it up with a custom tag. AFAIK there is no way to programatically compute an album's average bitrate with foobar.

I see. I imagine that that wouldn't be that hard to program anyway. Different albums could be identified by tags or file structure.

Is it possiblе to sort the Coluns UI playlist alphabetical ?

click on the title column or use sort submenu in the edit menu

I can't see where it is. Here is a screeny. Can you be more specific please. Thanks.

Solution 1) You can click on the column header for the column you wish to sort by.

Solution 2) Click on "Edit" (Upper right corner of your screenshot), then select the "Sort" submenu and choose what you want to sort by.

Solution 3) Configure foobar to automatically sort your playlist. See this thread where I explained this to another user. In your case you'll probably want to use %title% instead of %date%.

I want to sort the Sidebar playlist not the window one

I believe you can use foo_playlist_manager to sort the playlists.

Can you please more specific, where i can the plugin and how do I make it. Thanks.

Stable components package from http://foosion.foobar2000.org/0.9/
Then after adding the component, you'll find "View - Playlist manager" in fb2k. Sorting is in the context menu.

The feature "activate now playing" when doubleclicking statusbar doesn't seem to work for me,
when browsing through a playlist, that doesn't include the now playing song and that was sent
to the colums playlist by the album list panel.

However it does work, when using the playlist switcher.
I use the lastest versions of foo2k and the above mentioned components.

Is anybody having the same problem?

ok so heres the thing
i have made my columns config so that my columns playlist is at the bottom with a label toggle above it so that when i double click it to hide the list it does but foobar itself does not resize to accomodate for the lake of realestate i hide away. i have all my other splitters locked so that when my columns is minimised they dont resize ie stretch to fill the gaps, which is good as thats what i want.

but what i also want is foobar to then move the large blank box minimizing the playlist leaves...

if this doest make sense i can include some pictures but basically foobar doesnt resize when i make the bottom panel minimized/hidden so you can just see the label...

is there a way to fix it perhaps?

maybe i can have to configs and get foobar to remember 2 window sizes... any thoughts?

Squeller
Thanks for help ! You made my day

I imagine something "container panel"...

This panel displays other panel( album art, trackinfo, buttons, etc) in it.

If this could be realized, we can have different font-combined trackinfo panel.

"trackinfo-albumart" panel, "albumart-albumlist"panel, etc.

First of all, we can solve "border problem".

If container has border line and sub panels have no border, they could seem to be "one" panel...

Is this possible?

Sorry for my poor English...^^

No, this is not possible at the moment. (Except for changing system wide colours of course). I like the borders @ http://www.minnit.de/etc/fb_notebook.png

I mean no border can be "none" in each panel edge style.

And container panel and each panels have same background color, we can't see boder without system color change.

Of couse, container panel can be set sunken or grey...

It's just a dream at present...^^

I am not sure if it could be a bug or if i am just understanding something wrong:

I thought that the item group "none" in buttons configuration has same effect like "context menu" for hotkeys. So i created some buttons that represents some commands from foosions foo_utils (add to specified playlist|Default, ....). I choosed item group "none" so that i can apply the command not only on playlist view but also on other plugins (f.e. browser). It doesn't work!

Is it a bug or does item group "none" has a meaning i don't know?



The following must be a bug:

I decided to create buttons for item group "playlist selection" with same commands like above. Everything works fine except these commands from foosions plugin that contain "play": f.e add/send to specified playlist and play|Default. All highlighted tracks are indeed sended/added to Default playlist but the selected track wich begins to play is being played in old playlist and not in "Default"

Feature request:

A variable for the next track depending on the playback order.
This should be possible with the sdk, because foo_osd has such a variable.

Would be really great if we had this, and use this in any panel because of $set_global...

BTW, why is the development of columns ui stuttering? Real life?

Feature request:

Would it be possible to have the status bar display the size (in MB) of the selected items?

Currently, the status bar can be configured to display a given number of decimal places of the (time) length of the selected items. This helps when creating a traditional CD (limited by time) but not when creating a MP3 CD (limited by file size).

It is the only feature that I'd add to the otherwise perfect ColumsUI.

Thanks and keep up that good work.

--uj.

It's the summer, I'm supposing "Vacations"