Make sure the sidebar is showing:


then right click in the sidebar area:

Thank you.

Two stupid questions:
1. Where can I download the latest alpha versions?
2. Is there some good explanation of those sexy format strings? I know there's that topic in the Uploads forum, but it seems that's only a place for people who already know somehow and show off their creations.

here

Alpha Page

Just a small bug i've found. If you maximise the fb2k window then lock the side panel, when you make the fb2k window smaller it is still locked at the maximum.

Think it is a truly great plugin though. Keep up the good work!

Hi, managed to reproduce the bug. To see it do the following:

1. Add some tracks to the playlist, enough to require the vertical scrollbar.

2. Scroll to bottom of playlist and play the last track.

3. While track is playing open album list and 'send to new playlist' some music.

4. New playlist will have opened and started playin first track, close this playlist.

5. You'll now be back at the first playlist and should notice that the last track has been duplicated in the playlist!. If you scroll the scrollbar it disapears, or instead if you start clicking other tracks in the playlist they get duplicated!

Hi, I would be interested in this. Could you maybe upload it in the forum (or send it to my email frederic84 [at] web [dot] de?

Regards; ilikedirt

A few requests for the Databse Explorer:

• Ability to apply custom colours (like selection frame, selection BG, etc) to it like you can to the playlist switcher?
• Add an option that truncates the last few characters and replaces with '...' when the item doesn't fit, instead of getting a horizontal scrollbar (I can't stand horizontal scollbars. )
• Already asked, but the ability to remove the parent node (All Music)?

Also, the visualization frame option doesn't appear to do anything with the new Columns UI alpha.

Thanks.

Can't reproduce. Those tooltips are handled by windows itself. Perhaps a possible difference from other applications is that in WM_CLOSE the main window isn't destroyed, rather PostQuitMessage() is called and the main window is destroyed when foobar recieves the quit message.


1. Known. It should be an option really, because some people might want the "find-as-you-type" style behaviour, its just not implemented yet.

2. Not exactly what you want, but you can use the auto-sizing columns and the "Resize" column setting to achieve a similar effect.


Try alpha 3.


And I just made the UI tabable. Oh well, I'll disable the tabable UI for now, and make it optional or something.


Thanks


I think you are refering to intended behaviour. When you lock a panel, it prevents it from being automaticaly resized. Like setting a column's resize setting to 0.


Thanks, I didn't have any luck with your instructions, I figured it out though (scroll to bottom of playlist and resize window downwards). Fixed for alpha 3.


1. Those can't be added without owner drawing the treeview.
1 & 2. I am not going to develop the databse explorer much further myself, its in the hands of whoever wants to work on it.
3. I think rexy has modified it to support that, wait until rexy posts it.
4. Fixed in alpha 3.

alpha 3 is out

alpha 3
-fixed sending useless messages to seekbar again
-fixed status bar action dropdown on win2k
-fixed playlist switcher colour options do not update properly on apply
-fixed inaccurate clipped text detection in playlist switcher panel
-changed panel resizing behaviour
-fixed status bar drawing bug
-fixed status bar part sizing bug
-fixed status bar repainting bug
-fixed sidebar autohide a bit
-fixed: when rebar was above sidebar in z-order, when rebar height changed, sidebar panels were not repainted properly
-fixed - toggling "show header" did not make it appear again until window resized
-fixed vis, playlist switcher panel edge, playlist switcher item height settings
-added option to not show sort arrows in playlist
-added more menu items
-fixed "selected tracks length" when items added to playlist already selected
-fixed playlist painting bug when scrolling to bottom of playlist and sizing downwards

Please!!! Make tree by directory structure in DBExplorer panel!!

oh! I can't open the page,now I can't download the Columns UI Plugins,who upload the Columns UI Plugins to me? or send E-mail to me. my e-mail is 44095086@51uc.com
THX.

try this:

http://www.daskleinegruenedreieck.de/foobar2000/columns_a3/

I would really like this as well, it's the only view I ever use in the Album List...

Rexy, could you provide musicmusic with the required changes to the source code in order to allow him to add an option to remove the "All music" node? musicmusic, would you be so kind and include this option? To get a modified DLL from somebody else would mean that those who'd like to use this feature would rely on him updating his version, that is why it would be better if it was included in the original version. Thanks a lot to you both in advance.

Yup, that would be the easy way (trust me to do it the hard way)


Seems to work alot better, more responsive (for me at least)


Cheers musicmusic, you the man!

Just to let you know, it seems the history panel is broke in alpha 3 (no horizontal scrollbar)

Thanks again

Great plugin. I've been using it for months now and love it. And now that it supports its own plugins, it's even better. Great job!

Well, I didn't come just come to praise. I have a few suggestions. If they were already suggested and anwsered please don't yell and excuse me because I ain't reading 37 pages to see if something was suggested or not.

Anyway, here goes.
1. Add a small bar at the bottom of the sidebar with a few buttons (add, remove.. etc) which if you click a menu popups which allows you to add a panel. I know you can use right mouse button and click anywhere on the sidebar to add, but I personally find it rather annoying that when you click it selected some other item in a panel or something similar. Not that it's really major deal, but I thought an extra panel with a few buttons would be much better and appealing.

2. Panels with headers. Have all, or not all like visualisation, panels have a header with a close button and tag saying what this panel actually is.

3. Collapsing panels. Speaks for itself.. maybe in addition to the header suggestion, a button on the header which would collapse the panel so if you don't need it for now it won't be there. Locking button can actually go there as well.

Anyhow, great work so far on the alpha. Looking forward to see more of it.

Wow. Great job thus far. Looks awesome!


Would it be possible to put the DB Explorer and the History panel UNDER the play list?


Also, have u seen how Music Match handles it library? Its like a hybrid of the "+" albumlist and columns. Like when u click the + it opens the files inside of it and it lists metadata in the columns to off to the right.

You guy know what im talking about? Right?


That would be sick if you could build up the MM library in foobar!

OK, here is my modified dll:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=26937

Don't worry about it. I can use ~ or something if the autohide still doesn't suit me.

thank you !janjan

In Japanese foobar2000 fan forum, I found a minor bug has been reported.

With "Always show systray icon" option disabled, if you minimize fb2k to systray after starting playback, systray tooltip doesn't show the info of the now playing item but just shows "foobar2000 v0.8.3". Then it won't show the correct info until playback changes to the next track while keeping it in systray.

Since I always have the icon shown in systray, it is not an annoying bug at all. But I think I should report it anyway.
Thanks for all the effort you've put into this. Columns UI is getting better and better, simply amazing!

Hello musicmusic!

Your plugin is great and I really like it's panel functionality.
Anyway, it could be improved by providing panels on each side of the ui window (top, bottom, left, right), with configuration to turn on/off each panel, and choose if it takes the whole available size (width, for top/bottom, and height for left/ritht) or is forced by other panels to take what is left between (that could be configured visually). For example I prefer to have the panel on the left, and to have console at the bottom.

And the more important thing, is it possible to make the plugin's panel functionaltiy independent of the UI? I mean, to make it new UI plugin, which uses different plugin for displaying UI in it's client area between panels. That would be very useful, and would make the new plugin more popular, because UI extensions would be available to any foobar2000 user. What do you think about that?

musicmusic,

Is your plan to make the main playlist a panel itself? (this may have been asked previously but am being lazy to look) That way it will be possible to have panels all over the shop like filon describes

I'm not alone MuzMuz, we need ya!!

It never had a horizontal scrollbar.


Known, I just forgot about it because it was so trivial. More worrying, is the bug when you deactivate both systray options when foobar is minimised, which I also forgot about. I will fix both for next build.

Sort of like make the area where the playlist is displayed one big sidebar, with another thin one on the right? Maybe. I don't want it to be too crazy, but certainly that kind of flexibility would be nice.

What exactly do you mean? Are you talking about replacing the playlist? Eventually, yes. The current playlist view needs to be rewritten as a ui_extension first.


See above.



Oh dear...

Well you will be pleased to know that I finished making a panel based upon albumlist 2.0, at same url. (Its foo_uie_albumlist.dll)

It is more complete than database explorer, use which ever you wish.

Note: The process keyboard shortcuts setting will not work unless you redownload columns ui due to a bug in the latter.


1. No, buttons are unneccesary clutter. You can right click in the separator if the other items annoy you..

2 & 3. Possibly, a fair amount of work though. I will consider it for a future post 0.1.2 version.


1. Probably eventually.
2. You mean you want items sent to the playlist when you click on the plus? Well Im done with album list panels now the 2.0 one is done so its up to anyone else..

The new album list panel is awesome; works great for multiple fields too.

Just wanted to report a small bug in ui_columns: right-clicking a header > 'Edit this column' always leads to the Globals tab instead of the respective column.

Thanks and keep up the great work :]

I've had a look at the "same url" and there is no foo_uie_albumlist.dll there?

"Same url" in his post links to this, which definitely contains a foo_uie_albumlist.dll and .zip. If you can't see it, blame your ISP for poor http caching. (Or, maybe it's all Lycos' fault for responding with bad headers that confuse caching proxies. Eh, whatever.)

If you still cannot see it, maybe you can ask someone to emailbomb you with each new version.

Ok i can see it now.

weird

My bad, sorry

MuzMuz rocks again...
Albumlist panel is much better than DBExplorer!! Thanks!!!

One question... Why you now need DBExplorer?

Well I can tell you why I need it. DBExplorer panel has "find-as-you-type" eg. I type b-e-a-t & it drills down to 'Beatles'. This does not apear to happen with the Album list panel - but works with the standard 'Album list'. Can anyone confirm this?

To make it more clear, I mean something configured like that (with ability to turn on/off panels, not shown here):



Update: I meant not panels, but sidebars, sorry for confusion.



I mean loading any existing UI plugin into the playlist area, like the default foobar UI, for example.

If in the preferences screen, if you have the 'Process keyboard shortcuts' ticked then typing stuff in the album list panel does not drill down to nodes starting with that letter. If you untick it, then 'find as you type' works

Thank you very much!

Yeah that i handy thing a frequently use, but is there a plugin that can make me search as you type in the playlist? i know sonique2 has that, and that's was something i really used before i switched to foobar

Have you tried foo_dbsearch (foo_dbsearch)

yes but that is not what i meant, i mean i can type something like "foo" and the playlist jumps to the first songs the begin with "foo....
Just like rectangle requested for the album list, i like something like that in the playlist.

Try Playlist Find (foo_playlistfind).

It's not a big problem for me, but sort by dir structure was the reason for me not to use panel so frequently as now. Now i can just delete all playlists and use albumlist panel as full music manager (like in WMP9). Anyway thanks!

It MUST be included in special installer!!

Sorry for bad english... again....

is there a chance we can have minimum height for history and playlist switcher panels?



and maybe a selectable delay for showing/hiding the sidebar?



oh and awesome work by the way .... now i can show off my foobar to everyone even more (not like i didnt do that already before).

yes playlist find works wonders... it can even automatically start playing if what you have typed has only one match.

I agree, thanks for that nice panel

Is there another way of switching views than to right clicking the albumlist-panel? A combo box like in the original Albumlist window would be great - or am I just blind?

Thanks to all who put work and time in this thing

Columns now are MUCH better than StandardUI!
We just need more beta-testers and ermm.... FEATURE INVENTERS to make foob more usable and eye-candy...

Dumb question. How do i get that? I installed the new one and all I get in the side bar is playlists and vis.

Thanks.

Here

I was wondering the same thing, but actually I think I prefer the way dbexplorer panel displays all views simultaneously. It seems easier than only having one view visible at a time and having to switch between them by right-clicking or choosing from a combo box. Hopefully all the excitement about the albumlist panel doesn't mean that the dbexplorer panel will fall by the wayside.

Anyway, thanks for the great plugins!

Rob

I dont see why the db explorer and albumlist arent merged (at least panel wise) they share a lot of the same features, with a bit more config options one plugin could make everyone happy.

Of course that would be the best solution. It would make no sense for effort being spent to maintain two separate, but very similar, panel plugins.

Rob

Could it be possible then to have two playlists opened at one time, would be really great

[quote=foosion,Aug 27 2004, 08:52 PM]The UI extensions a a nice addition, though there are some parts I don't like - not about specific panels, rather about the way the whole thing works. I'm currently writing down what I think should be changed and why, and how I would go about implementing that. Progress and this is rather slow, as I'm currently updating implementation and documentation of some of my own plugins, but I should have it finished around the middle of next week.

[/quote]
Any progress? I revised the api a bit, to work somewhat better with single-instance windows. Yuo can see the revised version here. Its not implemented, so I may have overlooked some things. Any feedback appreciated.

[quote=Silverbolt,Sep 3 2004, 01:29 AM]The new album list panel is awesome; works great for multiple fields too.

Just wanted to report a small bug in ui_columns: right-clicking a header > 'Edit this column' always leads to the Globals tab instead of the respective column.

Thanks and keep up the great work :]

[/quote]
Your welcome

Known, it will be fixed for next version.

[quote=Stalwart,Sep 3 2004, 04:51 AM]MuzMuz rocks again... 
Albumlist panel is much better than DBExplorer!! Thanks!!!

One question... Why you now need DBExplorer?

[/quote]
Your welcome

I thought maybe someone would prefer the multiple views. No other reason really.

[quote=filon,Sep 3 2004, 07:35 AM][quote=musicmusic,Sep 2 2004, 03:35 PM][quote=filon,Sep 2 2004, 06:16 PM]Hello musicmusic!

Your plugin is great and I really like it's panel functionality.
Anyway, it could be improved by providing panels on each side of the ui window (top, bottom, left, right), with configuration to turn on/off each panel, and choose if it takes the whole available size (width, for top/bottom, and height for left/ritht) or is forced by other panels to take what is left between (that could be configured visually). For example I prefer to have the panel on the left, and to have console at the bottom.
[/quote]
Sort of like make the area where the playlist is displayed one big sidebar, with another thin one on the right? Maybe. I don't want it to be too crazy, but certainly that kind of flexibility would be nice.

[/quote]

To make it more clear, I mean something configured like that (with ability to turn on/off panels, not shown here):



Update: I meant not panels, but sidebars, sorry for confusion.
[/quote]Ok. Something along those lines. It needs some thinking about really, I don't want it to be too complicated.

[quote=filon,Sep 3 2004, 07:35 AM][quote=musicmusic,Sep 2 2004, 03:35 PM][quote=filon,Sep 2 2004, 06:16 PM]And the more important thing, is it possible to make the plugin's panel functionaltiy independent of the UI? I mean, to make it new UI plugin, which uses different plugin for displaying UI in it's client area between panels. That would be very useful, and would make the new plugin more popular, because UI extensions would be available to any foobar2000 user. What do you think about that?

[/quote]What exactly do you mean? Are you talking about replacing the playlist? Eventually, yes. The current playlist view needs to be rewritten as a ui_extension first.

[/quote]

I mean loading any existing UI plugin into the playlist area, like the default foobar UI, for example.

[/quote]
Sorry, I still am not sure what exactly you are refering to. Selectable playlist view (as in the playlist window)? If it is that, then yes it is planned in some form.

[quote=spase,Sep 3 2004, 02:57 PM]is there a chance we can have minimum height for history and playlist switcher panels?[/quote]
A better solution would be support for resizable panels above/below playlist. I could add it in playlist switcher though, if you stilll want it. foo_history_panel does not have any configuration so I won't add it there for now.

[quote=spase,Sep 3 2004, 02:57 PM]and maybe a selectable delay for showing/hiding the sidebar?
[/quote]
For showing the sidebar, I use the system hover time, which you can configure using TweakUI (at least on TweakUI 2.10 for xp/2k3). I could make it configurable, if you prefer.

There isn't any delay for hiding the sidebar (do you really need one?)

[quote=spase,Sep 3 2004, 02:57 PM]oh and awesome work by the way

[/quote]
Thanks

[quote=0x1ff,Sep 3 2004, 07:55 PM][quote=Stalwart,Sep 2 2004, 08:51 PM]Albumlist panel is much better than DBExplorer![/quote]

I agree, thanks for that nice panel [/quote]
Your welcome

[quote=0x1ff,Sep 3 2004, 07:55 PM]Is there another way of switching views than to right clicking the albumlist-panel? A combo box like in the original Albumlist window would be great - or am I just blind?
[/quote]No, contextmenu is the only way to do it. I have no plans no change this myself in the near future.

[quote=hunted,Sep 5 2004, 03:29 AM]I dont see why the db explorer and albumlist arent merged (at least panel wise) they share a lot of the same features, with a bit more config options one plugin could make everyone happy.

[/quote]
I didn't feel like adding multiple hierarchies to the album list panel. Someone could do it if they wanted.

[quote=Der_Iltis,Sep 5 2004, 02:57 PM]Could it be possible then to have two playlists opened at one time, would be really great

[/quote]
I don't have any such plans right now.