musicmusic!!! Sorry for wreaking havoc
After messing more with my source according to foosions tips, the "bug" has been squished, but rather on my side than yours.

I don't know BTW, why my code worked well with the default UI

Thanks for your patience, and sorry again.

And thanks, foosion, for your help.

i just wanted to say that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PLUGIN!!!

2 questions:

what is newer b8 or RC1 ?
where can i find custom buttons ?

look how pretty it is:

foobar

thank you very much for giving me such a nice foobar

works fine now... something with the DNS update or something... who knows.

newer would be RC1 .. but why use that when final is out ?

where ? can't find it here: http://columns.outerspase.net

You didnt wreak havoc !! I still want to look into what exactly is happening different from the default ui.

There still may or may not be a problem, so no apology needed..

(Oh and I did have old foo_vis_simple_spectrum, 0.1.0 )


Most likely RC1


I have not seen anyone with a proper set of custom buttons yet. Maybe you should contribute some


?

Hi,

Thank you for this wonderful plug in.

I would like to report a small glitch in RC1: The seekbar doesn’t work with long (>=57min) musepack files: the seekbar is locked.
(Long mp4-files however, aren’t a problem)

This glitch did not happen in beta8.


-tm/

Small bug: column headers which are center or right-aligned shift to the left when you sort by them (click on the header and get that little triangle); they stay left-aligned even after sorting by a different column afterwards and don't reset until you switch playlists. Thanks.

Sounds like the bug reported before - can you redownload and try again?

Thanks, will be fixed for RC2.

Would it be possible to simulate the playlist tabs of the Default User Interface more closely? I don't know if they're taller, or what it is, but the default tabs seem much cleaner and clearer than in foo_ui_columns...

Also, maybe I'm just stupid - Would it be possible to add the ASCII-style buttons from the Default User Interface as well?

a bug: if there's '&' character(s) in the name of playlist and playlist mode is tabs, there's no '&' shown and the next letter is underlined. Oh, Windows does that, right? default UI works ok with that. Fix please!
Still waiting for RC2...

I have changed it for RC2 so that it looks better without xp theming (or maybe just the particular style I use..)

Any remaining differences after that are from either a different border around the playlist, or the border around the header control.


What for ? I cant implement it exactly like the standard ui since I dont have a standard menu to put them in. I could put them on a toolbar though, but not for 0.1.


Thank you, fixed for RC2.

Stupid question, but is there any reason why this component doesn't work for me at all? I tried installing both the newest ver of FB2K & Foo_ui_columns on 2 different machines and it shows all the options in preferences, but it doesn't actually show the columns in FB (or change the interface whatsoever). I also use foo_looks too, is there a conflict because of that? It seems like foo_looks is the only visual component I can get to work... BTW I'm running WinXP in case that affects things. Thanks.

-ScislaC

http://members.lycos.co.uk/musicf/columns_...ml#Installation

Boy do i feel dumb! Thanks much!

Feature request:

The user should be able to drag songs off the play list (onto the desktop or a folder) to make a copy of the file at the destination. This is possible with the default foobar2000 user interface and it would be nice to see this implemented in foo_ui_columns as well.

Thank you in advance!

Right-click and drag... It took me a while to find this too

How about restoring the tray icon if/when Explorer is restarted?



Or, you can initialize that variable when you create your window.

You can find a bit of information at this (old) page, or search Google. :B

I just thought that it would be very nice to have an option on columns that will hide the columns if theres no playback and show when playback starts (or vise-versa) ... that could be very very nice

bouh

Or ctrl+drag..


I was looking for that info the other day, I guess I don't need to bother now. :B

Implemented for RC2, thanks.


What would be on the playlist if there was no columns ?

I think he meant to hide a single column, like the enabled option, but depending on the playback status. I can imagine this used for now-playing markers.

I looked into it and basically you were getting called with on_flush() after the main window was destroyed, because uDefWindowProc was destroying it in response to the WM_CLOSE message. Obviously, your window is destroyed then and so the saving of the window position failed..

..whether it is a problem or not, I have changed it for RC2, at least for consistency.

It's not necessarily a problem, as the missing parts in my code that foosion pointed me to solved this problem. But fixing this part can't hurt, maybe there are some other plugins floating around whose author was not aware of this stuff.
Thanks! Awaiting RC2

On 0.1 RC1 "Minimize to systray" check box doesn't work (has no effect, foobar still minimizes to taskbar). "Show systray icon" works properly.

Can't reproduce. Maybe you have "Show systray icon" disabled.

Yes, I had it disabled. Thanks. It's slihtly different behaviour from default ui (it still minimizes to systray even if I have "Always show systray icon" disabled). My wish is possibility to completely remove foobar from taskbar (show only in systray regardless of it being minimized or brought to front).

Thanks for great plug-in. Tryed it only today and got stuck to it.

I see what you mean; neither did I know the standard ui does that.

It is changed in RC2.

rc2:
- shift + drag on seekbar
- fixed: header alignment on sorted columns
- insert + copy buttons
- added rearrangement of columns from the header
- fixed '&' characters in tabs
- ctrl + a on column config
- tray icon recreated when explorer restarts
- rebar remenbers previous positions of toolbars
- when importing config, auto-sizing takes effect without restart
- made tabs look better in some circumstances
- on first startup, the window is not hidden
- fixed minor repainting bug with the header
- fixed minor bug when remember window positions is disabled
- changed some systray behaviour
- random fixes

thx

Just discovered a small header redrawing problem with RC2, reproduced in this manner:
1) "Auto-resizing column mode" is on.
2) Create new empty playlist (where there is no vertical scrollbar).
3) Add enough files to the playlist so that the vertical scrollbar appears.
4) Header isn't redrawn i.e. vertical scrollbar overlaps the right-most part of the header.

Also, since ctrl-a support has been added to the column config, why not add it for globals too?

Was reluctant to nitpick on your great work, but I guess feedback is to only way to make it even better

exactly ... the now playing animation columns, the time remaining/left columns, and other stuff too who knows ... but thing is, those columns takes space when the playback is stopped, for no reason ... so I think this feature could bring new possibilities

Thanks for systray modification. And I too have problems with rerdaw after scrollbar appearing.

Great plugin, am loving it, a few pointers tho:

Wouldn't it be better to have auto-resizing availible on a per-collumn basis. I think it jus provides wider felxibility, as there are some collumns which I'd want auto-resized, and some not. This could also make a "now playing" collumn effectivly disappear when nothing's playing?

Also, what is the format for a buttons.bmp file? It only asks for one file, so they all must be in the same image, and presumable in a specific order/positioning for the plugin to assign the buttons correctly?

Steve

If you have a column you dont want to resize set "resize" to 0!
Under the column there is an option called resize that tells how much a column should resize set that to 0 for the columns you don't wnat to resize!

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Neksus

Cheers I thought it was strange that this wasn't an option.

Thanks,
Steve

Really nice plugin. It even works (and looks pretty) in wine/linux. I have two feature requests that would make it work even better for me:

- in the default ui, doubleclicking in the statusbar selects the currently playing track. Would it be possible to add this to foo_ui_columns?
- This one is probably for post-0.1: show the sidebar on mouse-over. When you're not using it, the sidebar is hidden. When you touch the left side of the window with the mouse pointer (and leave it there for a few seconds) the sidebar "slides" out. When you move the pointer away from the sidebar, it disappears again. Oh, actually I discovered the doubleclick-the-sidebar-separator-function while I'm writing this. That's almost as good as what I'm describing here.

musicmusic, the new tabs look great. Thanks very much!

It already does this.

I've noticed in a few screenshots that people have images in their playlists (for replaygain a tick or a cross etc), and I am curious as to how this is done.

Is there an online to tutorial for this? Or would someone care to explain it?

I wish to create a rating collumn similar to that in foo_tunes (foo_tunes i feel is too buggy atm for my use).

Cheers,
Steve

This is how I do it!

It needs Arial Unicode MS or other Unicode font with special symbols!

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Neksus

Reproduced, thanks. I wouldnt call it a redrawing bug though, its updating+sizing..


I was feeling lazy. I will add it for RC3.

Yes


Maybe..

..but seriously why would you have time remaining info in its own column? It would only be filled in for one track.

As for now playing marker columns, the column would still be redundant if the track playing was not in the (current) playlist.

Anyway, I will see after 0.1. Maybe as some general expansion of the playlist filters, i dont know.


Order of buttons is the same as they appear normally. The buttons should all be adjacent horizontally.

You can find info about format at the bottom of this page.


Ok, but the number of requested post-0.1 features is awfully long..


Your welcome

musicmusic,

When dragging and dropping a directory onto the playlist sidebar, instead of creating a new playlist called 'New Playlist' can it be changed to create a new playlist with the name of the directory?
E.g.:
Drag and drop a directory called 'David Bowie' onto the playlist sidebar and a new playlist called 'David Bowie' is made, not 'New Playlist'

Cheers

Hmm, must be a wine bug then. Sorry. I'll just use a keyboard shortcut.

Cheers for information about the buttons

Here's my first button set. Based on XP in silver mode, but I think it should look fine in blue too. If not let me know.

XP Buttons

Steve

How big do the buttons have to be, so that they border the edge of the physical click area i.e so there is no grey between each button.

I wish to create something like this:

XP Buttons 2]

Cheers,
Steve

look at the plisk config , the light will come ... and yes I was seeing this as a expansion to the playlist filters ... to show or hide depending on tabs and playback status

two small bugs in RC2:
- using the mouse wheel to horizontally scroll the screen causes a strange delay effect in the headers (just CTRL+Scroll back and forth)
- when arranging columns by the headers (yay), pressing ESC moves the column to the very left instead of cancelling

post 0.1 request:
- not sure how many people would find it useful, but how about a 'Move files here' in addition to 'Add files here' when right-click dragging?

Thanks.

Its not a question of making the buttons bigger, I have to mess around with the toolbar control.

I can remove the padding , but it will look like this:

with the mouse over a button.

I can, however, remove that background so it looks like this:


(with a button pressed)

..however I can stop the button from being indented, but then there is no button down effect.

If either of those three behaviours is OK for you, I can make it an option.


Probably a good idea, I will see what I can do.


How strange. I will look into them, thanks.



Yes, it is planned, it may be in there for 0.1.

I have a small feature request... could you add an option where the entire column you've sorted by last has a grey background color, just like windows XP?

Okay, I hear what your saying. Ideally, a hover picture could be included in the .bmp, like so: XP Hover Buttons

There could also be button-down images included too.

If this is not possible, I would recomend a slider bar, so the user can adjust the padding themselves? and then a check box with "hover effects" as shown in your post, and another with 'button down' effects. In fact, the slider bar seems a natural move whether hover images are possible or not.

Steve