musicmusic, I know how busy you must be, but I was hoping you could take a look at this request:

playlist view notification

It would make me very happy!

Trying the last test version I found that at track change I get heavy clicking noise and some quick display flickering. Reverted to the previous version the thing disappear.
I only copied the old one back so I'm pretty sure last columns UI is to blame.

Thanks.

@fabiospark: Weird, no such problem over here on Vista Ultimate. Just so you know.

I have actually an annoying issue with Playlist Tabs.
How can I change the background color of the playlist tabs?
I am not talking about the color of the tabs, but the backgroundcolor of the panel itself.

Hi. Having experimented around with my layout, I was wondering if there was the possibility of adding an option such as "right toggle area"; exactly the same as left toggle area, but on the right of the screen. Thanks a lot

(Hope i can post here also about albumlist panel - i found no other thread)

There is a small issue if you send/add the allmusic node to a new/active playlist. Each child node of the root node is sorted by view but the root node (all music) is sorted neither by view nor core sort settings: f.e. the root node of the view "year" is sorted by artist.

I have a feature request:

Constant sorting of playlists in the playlist switcher by a sort string or at least alphabetically. Of course this would be an option as it would disable rearranging playlists.

I am (perhaps naively) assuming that this wouldn't take a great deal of effort to implement. I know I would find this very useful and I expect that many others would too.

Please let me know what you think. Thank you.

EDIT:

And while I'm here, how about switching to a playlist by typing the first few letters of its name?

@theprash

Not exactly what you are looking for but it will help you organizing your playlists: foosins "playlist manager" plugin!

http://foosion.foobar2000.org/0.9/

if your play/pause button on multimedia keyboard don't work after switching to columns UI and when using kx drivers just add foobar2000 to main windows title and it will work.

Is there any news about v8? Did anyone discover serious problems with it? I'd like to have the inline tagging functionality very much, but I didn't try v8 yet because it is labelled as a TEST version (and because of musicmusic's warning). I hoped to see a more stable version released soon.

I've been using v8TEST for a long time now, since the time musicmusic posted it. It works fine over here.

Dito.

Previous versions had inline tag editing, v8 added multi-file inline editing. That did have a couple of quirks, which will be fixed for v9.

Thanks for the reply!
I did not express myself correctly. Yes, I meant multi-file inline editing.
I think I'll wait for v9 then. Approximately when do you expect to finish it?

I'm not sure; I've fixed those quirks but Im working on some other bits and also I dont have too much free time at the moment. So maybe a few weeks?

I'd be grateful if any panel component authors could add their panels/toolbars to this list:
http://yuo.be/wiki/columns_ui:panels

Thanks!

Will it be possible to implement in your plugin feature of relativity ways to images of buttons, as you move folders foobar2000 has all changed manually ...
Thank you very much for your understanding! ! !

Columns UI 0.2.0 alpha 1 released. Note: I just jumped version because versioning had become a mess. Basically aim from here to 0.2.0 final is to finish the FCL export functionality.

This version adds a complete layout (FCL) export. This is accessible from the main preferences page. It includes layout presets, toolbar layout, title scripts, colours and fonts settings. It is meant to be non computer specific (i.e. for using on another computer). So e.g. the buttons toolbar embeds images vs. storing the paths. This is a first implementation of this, and so the FCL format will probably change before 0.2.0 final.

What I'm looking for is feedback on the grouping of settings from the export dialog. These can be tree-arranged if needed.

If you try and import an FCL and don't have some panel it requires it will not import the file and tell you that. Currently however it will only tell you the name of the panel (vs. the name of the component, website etc.) I'll be improving that in the future, with the use of a panel database which is what the post a few above was for.

There is also a new "Themed" colours setting for the playlist view - this is basically for Vista with theming enabled and doesn't do anything useful otherwise.

Complete changelog here.

Thanks for update.

I got an error when trying to export an FCL.

There's no panel missing what I can see, in the tree.

It exports all presets - so there should be a panel in one of the presets that's not installed ("Unknown" in the tree).

BTW importing will replace all your old presets (if the FCL contains presets).

Thank you, now it works =)

Thanks musicmusic for the updated ColumnsUI

Any chance to get volume-change by wheel without first-klick, like in StdUI AFAIK ?
If likely not, maybe an additional option in statusbar-prefs is feasible.

regarding the export dialog: From what I can tell, the "Title Scripts" checkbox refers to 1) the common title formatting scripts and 2) the title scripts on the "Globals" and "Columns" tabs of "Playlist View" (and possibly the other settings on those pages). I think the "Playlist View" settings should be listed separate from the common title scripts. At the very least, there should be some indication to the user that the checkbox refers to the "Playlist View" settings. I was scratching my head when I first saw "Title Scripts", and the only reason I figured it out was because I knew that the "Playlist View" would most likely be saved as part of the FCL file. I'm not sure if it would be clear to a new or casual user.

Also, would it be possible to have a similar "Select settings" dialog on import? What I'd really like is just to see what settings are saved in a particular FCL file, so I know what will be overwritten when I import. Ideally, I could select which settings I want to import, but I'd understand if that weren't possible.

Hi, I do have a number of issues with this:
-The volume pane is dynamically sized. So you could be turning the wheel and it then goes out of the pane's area.
-The volume pane is a particularly small area
-I would have to hook/subclass the status bar just for that when I'm not doing it now

Clicking first for the popup then scrolling avoids those issues, as does adding the toolbar to your toolbars someplace (which supports wheel scroll). The toolbar is much easier to use anyway.

I certainly don't want to add any (more) options for minor behaviour changes in the UI. I'll be cleaning some of those up sometime anyway.

Thanks for feedback.


Hi, in regard to number 1:
I liked the simplicity of the current groupings, but I agree there is some need to separate the two. There are a few things that could be done to alleviate this:
-Split the group into a couple of sub-groups ("Common scripts", "Columns playlist scripts"). But keep the tree collapsed by default to keep the simplicity.
-Add description in export dialog to list what each node includes.

May do both.

In regard to the second point:
Yes I will definitely add the same dialog for importing the FCL files.

Thanks for feedback

Would it be possible to implement a feature which remembers Album List Panel's scrolling position?

When I close foobar album list forgets the position I scrolled, and always resets and starts from beginning of the list. It's not a big deal but I recall Winamp's Album List remembering the position

is there any way to add a column that would do show the date they were added on ?

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=53436

That thread should help you out

thanks

A little display bug in the album list panel:

When the mouse is over the line that does not fit in the window, a tooltip that displays the complete line appears immediately. The font used in the tooltip is the same as in the album list, therefore the text does not appear to move when hovering above it.

But with fonts that have kerning information for the VA pair, V and A are displayed closer to each other in the tooltip than in the album list, so the line appears to displace a little bit when you hover it. This can be seen with 10pt Calibri.

Of course this does not affect usability at all. I just mentioned it.

Just decided to test the last beta. It is great. I have a little feature request about volume bar. Could it use the same bar type as the seekbar. In most theme the volume bar is currently horrible.
Thanks for your work

musicmusic,
since a couple of versions ago I'm experiencing a strange half-height cut issue in the spectrum analyser when in bars mode.
Just compare the two modes as below:

Same here. I've noticed for a while that bars mode doesn't reach the same peaks as the default mode.

Thx musicmusic for your feedback about the volumebar in the stat.
I decided to change over to a volume-toolbar - due to this I would like to join carmenm about its design (even though this makes it different from the pos-slider, I guess this was your reason).

about the spec-analyser: changing the bar-width and -height would be a fine thing, sth. like average each 1000Hz (e.g.) (bar-width) and changing 'quantization' (bar-height). Maybe even with some custom-padding between the bars (horizontal and vertical).. just some ideas

ps: same here, bars-mode half-cut

Hi, thanks for the report. Its fixed for next build, it was a rouge divide by 2 in my code!


It should look OK in toolbar area and not extra wide width. In layout area I can see the colours are a bit off on default Vista theme. There does seem to be a slight difference in colours compared with normal seekbar which I'll investigate. I will see if I can tweak it otherwise as well.

There does need to be some distinction between the seek and volume bars so I can't just use the same appearance for both. It could be a little icon, I'll think about that.

Yay that's good news.

I always thought it would be cool if the spectrum analyser had a customisable peak fall-off option.

Hi,
I have one (I hope quite simple) feature request. Would it be possible to add an option for double-click action in playlist view? I'd like to add a file to queue instead of instantly playing it. Is it possible? Thanks.

I use double click for playing instantly (AFAIK this can't be changed) and middle click for add to queue. The middle mouse action can be set in Foobar Preferences -> Display -> Columns UI -> Playlist View General Tab.

Is there a way to hide the "splitters" between columns? Without changing the Windows theme 3d-color to black?

I tried to set 'playlist view' and 'playlist switcher' border to "none", but that did not help.

What it looks like:


What I want it to look like:

No, you can't hide the boarders in between the panels... well kinda.

You can use Panels_UI and recreate your config in there, and it will look the exact same but without the boarders. However, Panels_UI is a bit hard to wrap your fingers around. Its ALL code for the most part, and a read through the wiki would do you good.

Good luck .

I'm quite new to Foobar scripting, but thank you. I might try.

musicmusic: Could you add transparancy to your panels? Especially the spectrum analyser?

I would use the middle click option as already mentioned. If you're keyboard happy there's also CTRL+ENTER.

The action executed when double clicking/pressing enter is somewhat handled by the core, and can be overridden by a "playlist lock". I am not sure what kind of lock would do that however, but changing that double click action on my side may break it.

Can you be more specific. Background, whole panel ? What opacity?

O.K., I can live without double-click adding track in a queue. I thought it would be quite easy to implement. I have this option in Single Columns Playlist panel.

It is useful when more people are using the computer and choosing what to play next. Usually someone deletes your carefully selected queue in one second by double-clicking a song.

musicmusic

Hmm... Maybe it was reported before... I've just noticed that foo_ui_columns.dll v0.2.0 alpha 1 [02 May 2007] failed when loading some buttons, e.g. tango_media.

Console output:

Hi,

Unfortunately those files were written with an old version of Columns UI and they are actually invalid files due to a bug in that old version. They may have imported before 0.2.0 alpha 1 because I made some changes to the fcb importer in 0.2.0 alpha 1.

If you are handy with a hex editor you can fix the broken files. In the files you will see some filenames with extensions (e.g. "stop.png"). 12 bytes before such filenames is a 32-bit little endian integer. Add 8 to such integers to fix the file.

Alternatively you can switch to previous version of Columns UI, import the fcb file and switch back to current version (you can also re-export the fcb file with previous or current version to generate a fixed file).

does someone know, if there is coming a new version of Columns UI?

I just noticed the changelog is up to version 0.2.0 alpha 2, but the download link for the alpha version is still 0.2.0 alpha 1.7. I guess it's not complete yet.

Yes, I founded it. But I'm too lazy to fix all the fcb's by the hand, so I just re-exported them with a previous version. Thank you!

Also, a small request: show a filename for the loaded *.fcb (maybe a path too) somewhere in "Customise Buttons" dialog, and/or place it automatically as a filename in "Save as" dialog (as it done for the *.fcs exporting).

It's out now.

I have a question again. Does anybody know how to completely lock the panels, splitters etc, to prevent changing their sizes by dragging? I've tried out to use 'locked' checkbox located in 'Item details' groupbox, but it doesn't helped.