I'm not 100 % sure but I don't think that is possible... I think that's what Panels_UI is for...

musicmusic

Is it true what sylla said? Or this feature is just not implemented yet?

you must not be locking the right things.
It works, trust me.
If you'd maybe post a screen shot of what you want, someone could help you.

Ok, here it is:


I want to prohibit resizing of emements marked as Lock It!. These elements are: Columns UI playlist, Peakmeter UIE, Egoh Spectrum UIE and Playlists Dropdown UIE.

You can only lock so they don't change size when you resize the foobar2000 window.

seems line the the project m panel now crashes foobar when you try to close it. problem started with the new columns UI. I hope its a bug in columns UI cause no one seems to be maintaining foo_uie_vis_projectm.

nm, this is an existing bug after more testing.. it will crash on full-screen exit if there is no projectm panel in the configuration.

I noticed that every other line in the columns playlist winds up being a slightly lighter/paler color than the one specified, so it kind of looks like that old spreadsheet printer paper.


(Yeah, I know I screwed up the Length field, and the colors are weird, but I'm not done configuring things by far)

This doesn't seem to be mentioned in the FAQ or anything. Is there a way to change this?

Yea, that's by design.

You can change the code in the style window under globals.

This row controls the 2 colors,

I recently installed the 2. version of columns. I want to thank you because now layout editing is more comfortable.The funktion to copy a something from the layout tree is pretty cool. That's what I wanted for a long time.

So is there any way how to have transparent background in playlist switcher? Maybe I missed something, it does not seem to be possible right now

Where can I get the SDK ? The link in the wiki is dead

http://yuo.be/development.php

Hi musicmusic, do you still continue develop columnsui or are you sick of it? Please go on developing this one! I really start to hate the other panels approach to have anything excessively code based. Spaghetti code based. The other UI appears like a huge pile of mess to me. And it demands mess.

I'm not saying I currently have feature requests for panels ui. But because it's not as vital as the other ui, lots of people use the other ui like lemmings. This is not a good development for fb2k. Because I only can tell the newbies: "Hey, fb2k is small and ugly. You could have it more beautiful. But time is money- I rather recommend you becomming an experienced assembler programmer, which is way easier to learn..."

If you can't think of any feature requests, I sure can! A simple way to show bitmaps (such as stars) for the %rating% tag. Perhaps similar to how the playback button bitmaps function, where the user specifies the location of their %rating% bitmaps.

If I want to give Columns UI a horizontal scrollbar ala iTunes this way it displays many columns without compromising the width of the other columns, is it possible to do so?

I use Panels UI to compliment Columns UI by the way. Best of both worlds.

I would be very happy if you could make the filetype icons show.

Why not let plugin devellopers work together?

I myself don't have knowledge of c++

Hi, I'm still developing it. There was a version released this month. In regard to new features, I have a few ideas but really I just want to release 0.2.0 final and then work on some new features.

In regard to other UIs: I think competition is healthy Its maybe only me but I don't see much of a problem with people using inherently flawed UIs like "lemmings" - it's their choice, and I respect that. If its happening with "other" UI then its probably because that's mainly what you see when you come to the forums. I guess that relates back to your point about more actively developing Columns UI. There's also not exactly any objective comparison between the different UIs around I have seen in any prominent place. I also don't see it as too much of a concern for me as a user if these UI trends are "not good" for fb2k. I'll leave those concerns to Peter and if he wishes to share (or otherwise address) those concerns that's up to him. But otherwise I don't see it as my place to decide what's bad for fb2k, except when it comes to Columns UI

Something that maybe interesting: a new poll for 'what UI are you using'. I think it would be quite different to the last poll a couple of years ago I believe.

I think disabling auto-size mode is what you describe.

Hi,

As a feature request a *simple, I guess* : a panel that would force a width/height of its ancestors.

I have Album Art, and I'd like it to make exactly 300x300px, but it resize automaticly (well, the behavior is random).

This is good news indeed. Yes, I have to think more positive. Currently I rather see the difficult sides of the project: A piece of software where shiny look and feel (this is what attracts most newbies) is possible, but getting a harder task. An exceptionally very hard task. Fb2k as a piece of software where the development side is a black box, we know nothing about plans, the future, the direction it goes... if discussing bugs/improvements makes any sense ...

Hello!

I wanted to add the following feature:
I plan to implement a Foobar2000 plugin with the following features:
From the currently selected playlist the marked items (1 or more) should be added through a double click to another playlist:
1.) Add to the hardcoded playlist e.g. Default
2.) Add to the hardcoded playlist queue e.g. Playlist Queue
3.) Add to the current playing playlist.

1.) with context menu is already implemented, but I don't know how to hook the double click. Any hints for the API calls?

BTW: Can someone explain the differences between a playlist queue vs. normal playlist. How is the order of playment.

See http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=55893
for details.

But according to the SDK license this might not be allowed.
=> Feature request to foo_ui_columns to implement a double click hook.

BTW: Why is it allowed for foo_ui_columns to use such hooks and not for other plugins?!?!?

Wiesl

musicmusic, i have a feature request. The ability to "bind" a playlist view to a certain playlist. The usage i have in mind for this is to use as a panel to view what tracks are next in queue. This in addition with Wiesl's request to be able to send to a "hardcoded" playlist, would be absolutely fantastic.

Hello!

I have a request for a feature that would avoid the overwriting of a playing playlist if it is an autosend/library playlist and if you continue browsing during playback: renaming of the playlist by titleformatting.

Just an example for the quicksearch plugin: If the playlist wich is started contains the word "Search" i can remove that word by titleformatting.

Or an example for Albumlist: If the playlist wich is started contains the word "Library" i can add an letter like "*" or just a space sign.

All that renamed playlist would loose their character as autosend/browser/search/library playlist and won't be overwritten.

An alternative solution to my request in the post before could be to create an media library output viewer as vlada and many users more need ( see here). That viewer then could replace the autosend playlists.

That viewer would act as its own panel and would have its own logic - means: it would act independent from the playlists. However it could take over the settings from the playlist view (Columns, etc.)

Right now I'm using columns ui 0.1.3 beta 1 v7.

I wanted to check out colums ui 0.2.0 alpha 2, and i found a weird thing (bug ?) with playlist switcher (see the screenshot).

In 0.1.3 beta 1 v7 total time was 0:00 ...






zmur.

I'll call that -1 bug

Its fixed for alpha 3 (in status bar as well). Thanks for the report.

i'll be patiently waiting for alpha 3/next downloadable version then

can someone post a link to columns and for what version of foobar it is for

God! ! !
Do not enable them both through Columns UI to do so at any resolution screen window foobar2000 was always centered?

Bug:

I noticed this a few versions ago, but when I have my playback order set to default, or shuffle tracks, or anything really except to repeat a track, when the LAST song on the playlist is played (the very bottom song) foobar wont skip to another song, but will act as if I pressed stop or something. It stops playing music. I can go in and choose another song, or press random or whatever and everything is fine again until the bottom most song is played.

Does anyone else have this issue? I am posting it here cause I haven't tested this with the default layout, or with SCPL, so I think it may be a CUI problem.

as far as I know it's normal, because Default will just play the playlist, nothing weird about that.
and if Default will repeat the playlist, the option Repeat playlist is useless, because it's similar.
so you need Repeat playlist.

No, what I mean is, that when my foobar plays the last track on my playlist, playback stops. It doesn't play anything else no matter what playback order I have chosen. I do see your point about default should end on the last song, but when I have 'repeat playlist' selected, and the last song on my playlist is played, playback still stops; no repeating.

I almost ALWAYS have 'shuffle (tracks)' selected, and when the last song is played on my playlist, playback stops when it is done. I don't really know how else to explain it.

If you wanted to try it for yourself, set your playback mode to 'shuffle (tracks)' and play the last song on your playlist. Playback should end.

I cannot reproduce this problem with SCPL, CUI 0.1.3 beta 1 v7, CUI 0.2.0 alpha 2, or the DefaultUI's playlist.

Hi. I was playing a little bit with my config and i've wanted to put foo_uie_peakmeter into my layout.
But I don't know how do modify my current setup that looks like this:



So that the peakmeter would be here:



Any help would be very appreciated

Insert a Vertical Splitter over the Track Info and then move the Track Info inside the splitter, then add the Peakmeter under Track Info(also in the splitter).

Thank you very much sir

musicmusic, can you please fix an old bug, which has been introduced a couple of versions ago?

- when a track is playing and you reload it's playlist entry while it is playing, e.g. by performing a database search, columns UI does no more display it in playing mode. It does display it as if it was stopped.

I think you are referring to the %isplaying% change in foobar2000 0.9. That info comes from the core (playlist engine) anyway.

I have this issue also, and its a pain. I bind my main playlist (which is all my music) often because I am always adding new stuff. However, if a track is playing, after the bind (or pretty much any update to the playlist) the song that WAS playing is no longer highlighted.

I am not sure how this would affect %isplaying%, musicmusic. I don't think it has anything to do with any tags? Could you explain in more detail how to keep my playing song selected after a playlist update?

I said %isplaying% but there's also the internal playing item marker. To put it simply when you clear/replace the playlist (or otherwise remove the playing item) the marker is reset. In 0.9.x %isplaying% follows the playback marker, it was different with %_isplaying% in 0.8.x.

%isplaying% is what the default playlist script uses to highlight the playing track.
There was some discussion about changes to %isplaying% in 0.9 a while ago, though I can't find it. But like I said, this isn't controlled by Columns UI.

Disclaimer: This is all "as I remember", this stuff was some time ago

Also 0.2 alpha 3 released.


Sorry, I didn't understand. Can you elaborate?

Thanks for the new version with the built in tabs.

Just a little minor cosmetig thing, the panels inside the stack is padded so it's a white frame around it.

And if you have the menu inside you won't be able to reduce the width lower than the menu's width.

It would be great if you could bind a hotkey to it, to switch to a tab or cycle it.

FCL exporting question:

I'm currently using this layout:


While trying to export FCL, i get this error:


What's going on?

nice update. the tabs will fix a few bugs for me related to the tabbed panel stack mod plugin. would it be possible to hide the tab bar and have no borders? thanks.

OK, as far as I understand you "%isplaying%" doesn't help as well and indeed, after replacing %_isplaying% with %isplaying%, this doesn't help. As this is fb2k core dependent I assume we'll never get the old behaviour back. Thanks anyway. And thanks for a3.

thanks for new version

everything seems to works fine.

It is using the standard tabs control positioning. I can maybe change it to same as playlist tabs, if it looks OK.

Yes, it's by design.


Check your other presets. It exports all of them.

For the latter see above. For the former why would you want to hide the tab bar?

Hi,

first of all thank you so much musicmusic for the new release.

I want to second the request of having no borders around the Tab Stack. Can you add support for keyboard hotkeys to switch between the tabs and the option to hide the Tab Bar, like in tabbed panel stack mod plugin?
That would be great.

for example, i have three different layouts for foobar. one for viewing on my monitor in high res, and 2 layouts with large fonts for viewing on the tv (one for browsing files and one for the playlist). i assign each layout to a tab, and then a keyboard shortcut for each tab. i use my remote to send the keyboard shortcuts to switch the tabs so i practically never use the actual tabs, but the functionality they bring. i know your component doesnt allow you to assign keyboard shortcuts to each tab so hiding the tabs wouldn't really be of much benefit anyway now that i think of it. the tabbed panel stack mod created a few bugs that do not exist in your version of tabs so i was excited to see the direction it was going.

0.2 beta 1 released, see changelog for details.. Difference between "Any" and "This" installation in FCL export is same kind of thing as FCB embed images vs. store paths.

Also foo_uie_typefind has returned. I added a Query search mode, which uses the filter syntax (i.e. same as autoplaylist).

Hi, well I am sure you can understand a tab stack without tabs is not really a tab stack

If your complete layouts are stored in these fake tabs (in Columns UI) you should just use the layout system, you can assign shortcuts to those.

In regards to shortcuts, I enabled the use of the left and right keys to switch tab (when focused) in beta 1.

Thanks for the update. Is the FCL format final now?

I don't think so. ColummnsUI still gives you the warning, that .fcl will not work with the release version.

Thanks, musicmusic for fixing the borders in tab stack, works great now.