This is something I've been working on. It's not finished, but I have exams to study for.

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Also requires foo_ui_columns v0.1.2 beta 4 or greater.

After you've copied the plugin to your foobar components directory, right click in the foo_ui_columns sidebar and select General->"Tabbed panel stack". Then right click on the empty window and use the "Add tab" sub-menu to add whichever extensions you like.

You can also make the tabs appear at the bottom of the window through the "Tab-bar position" sub-menu (right click on a tab to find that). However, Windows XP with themes enabled has issues with using a tab control in tabs-on-the-bottom mode. But it's not my fault, I promise

. Wow, thats a great idea. Maybe you could change the name from "Tabs" to something like "Panel Stack"?

It caused me one weird problem though. If the tabs is in the sidebar on foobar startup, it causes no mouse button down/up/conext menu messages to be recieved anywhere in the main window except the sidebar. The problem goes away when your panel is removed from the sidebar, it does not happen if your ppanel is added to the sidebar after foobar starts.

I'm not sure if its your fault, I don't have time to look into it anymore than that.

I think they are sent to the parent window.

Cooooool

I have a little problem with this plugin.
It work fine the first time i enabled but after close foobar and run it again I´m unable to click in any place.

I´m doing something wrong...?

And another question...

How I can get the extend search in the sidebar?

Strange, am I the only one who has no problems with this plugin?
Now if only we could figure out a nicer way than tabs, as they are too large for my somewhat minimal taste Anyhow, I'm glad there's the autohide option for the sidebar




edit: I got an idea! What about having (optionally, of course) those tabs as something like the column headers are? That way it would look much more sleek imho

I'm searching for the extended seach plugin(for columns_uie), can someone help me?

this is my fb2k

nice windows theme, what is it?

It's window XP classic setting, but I changed some colors.
and I used azreal column setting for my fb2k.

I've just Just switched to columns_ui and I'm loving it! But how do you get the Album List to display in the sidebar like that?

ProfH, check here.

Phi, Could it be possible to edit the name of the tabs manually?

Nice idea, though I have a few things to make your todo list a little longer.

• The component crashes at start-up when a previously added ui_extension is no longer available.
• If the component does not crash at start-up (i.e. all added ui_extensions are present), I get the same behaviour as described already by Cenobita. The left mouse button is essentially disabled, and the main window titlebar has the "inactive window" appearance. I've tested this with a minimal set of components to verify that it really is foo_uie_tabs that causes this.

anza,

many thanks! The database explorer extension is pretty cool, too.
Gradually moving away from Winamp after >5 years

Thanks . I can make that the default. I'll probably let you choose eventually. I just didn't bother with a config dialog for this initial version.


I'm sure it is my fault. I'll look into it.


That's weird, I'm not getting any window messages at all (in the tab control or the parent) when there are no tabs. Probably related to the above problem.


Hrmm... that doesn't sound good. I'll see what I can do.


No problem, thanks for testing. What OS are you on?


I could eventually draw the tabs myself to make them look a little nicer (or more minimal or whatever). They do look a quite large on your set-up.


Sure.

New version uploaded (redownload from link in my first post). Fixes all of the bugs reported so far.

I second this idea .... It would enable to switch easily between your multiple views of the albumlist without waiting for the refresh, a nice feature in my opinion.

I just ran into a problem. I had foo_temple as a tab, but because of a problem with foo_temple that causes it to revert to a dialog/window on first restart (see this post), every remaining tab in foo_uie_tabs stopped working after restart. All that showed up when I right clicked inside album list or history was "foo_temple configuration".

Edit: Forgot to thank you for this promising plugin. I like the way it makes the interface tidier, and that each panel gets a larger visible area when viewed. Looking forward to future versions.

Cool, thanks

I made a quick mock-up of what it could look like, what do you think?

(meh, my ftp connection seems to be dead somehow so I can't upload it on my webspace. I'll upload it to the upload forum in no time - if it works...)

edit: ok, here it is, would something like this be possible?



Thanks in advance

It´s working fine now.

Fast and efficience fix

Only one thing is drives me crazy...

Where´s the extended search tab?


Thanks for all your nice work

Hello,

Instead of tabs could you make an option to use a dropdown list instead? like "playback order".

And why isnt it possible to add volume, seekbar and button panels?

cheers

Cool, another minor bug is that when you have a single tab, you can still move it right (which then causes problems)

I think janjan is still working on that extension. But I'll see if I can improve the error checking in uie_tabs to make sure a "rogue" extension can't interfere with the other tabs.


Thank-you.


Yeah, that should be possible. I'll need to learn how to do the drawing first though, so it might be a while before it gets added.


It was more of a concept thing, and was only ever released in source code. I suggest you wait until panel support is added to the database search plugin.


Not a bad idea. I won't do anything like that for a while, but I'll add it to my "todo-one-day-in-the-future" list.


Oops.

Edit: Oh and ep0ch, I forgot to say, the current version doesn't let you add toolbars (seekbar/buttons etc), but I only excluded them because I didn't think they were all that useful inside a tab. I'll re-enable them in an upcoming version.

Awesome plug-in, definitely helped organize the panel pane! Thanks!

Hi, thanks for this plugin!

A request: Could it be possible to have a minimum height (like the album list panel)? In the case that you want to insert tabbed panel stack outside the sidebar...

Thanks for saying so.


Umm... maybe. Definitely not until I add a config page though, since I guess you'll want a say in what that minimum height value actually is.

Another feature I would like is having multiple Tabbed Panels or would this need a change to ColumnsUI?

(background: I'd like one tabbed panel used for Visualisations stuff e.g Vis and HTTP Buffer and another tabbed panel used for sliders e.g. seekbar and volume control.)

Edit: forgot to say "thanks!"

Wow, this plugin rocks! Thanks for making it.

This plugin is what I have a long time waited for.

Many Thanks!

The possibility to assign shorcuts to the different tabs would be nice.


Regards, Lars

The plugin supports as many instances as you like (an earlier version even allowed tabs within tabs, but I didn't really see the point of that), but columns won't let you add more than one to the sidebar at a time.

Actually, I lie, I added a "fix" that broke multiple instances in the latest update. No matter, I've fixed that for the next version.



Thanks guys


True. That one will have to go to the bottom of my todo list for the time being though.

Hi there!

I just found a little redraw bug - although I don't know if it's a bug from the sidepanel itself or the database explorer (in the ColumnsUI thread musicmusic told me it is a foo_uie_tabs bug, so I'm posting it here now). Look at this screenshot I made -> HERE

This happens when I drag the scrollbar up / down and a hint pops up that covers the database explorer entry which is not completely visible at the time. When I drag further up / down the hint disppears but leaves this grey box instead of the entry title... weird.

My current FCS configuration -> HERE

Using foobar 0.8.3 / ColumnsUI 0.1.2 (Beta 2) / foo_uie_tabs


Greetz.
Moon

Yep, that's foo_uie_tabs' fault. I'm posting a new version tomorrow with a few fixes (including that one).

I've just uploaded that bugfixed version. Multiple instances should work better now also.

Oh, and you can add toolbars as tabs now too.

PS. In case you missed the post, it turns out I was wrong about not being able to add multiple instances of an extension to the foo_uie_columns sidebar:

Cool, great plugin. Thanks

When you have time, please add possibility to have a minimum height (a config window, as you said), to avoid this:

http://www.mokava.org/temp/Fotos/jkwarras.png

Originally posted in foo_ui_columns thread:

I can't seem to get the tabbed panels, there's just a menu with General and Toolbars and umm well no tab stuff, look:



There's no tabbed panel options in the sidebar menu either.

I have both foo_ui_columns and foo_uie_tabs dll's.

hey jkwarras, what's up with the no cover picture, is that by foo_looks?

No, it's mine

The tabbed panel is supposed to be added to the sidebar (in the same place as your playlist list). You'll need to enable sidebar captions to be able to add it, so go in to preferences->columns ui and click on "reset sidebar". Then right click on the sidebar (it should be a blank grey area now), and select General->"Tabbed panel stack".

But then it will clear my playlists? Or won't it?

Edit: It wouldn't.

i mean how the picture is put there

Go to:
foobar2000\components\foo_looks\
And replace 'lookversion.png' by your own 'no cover' picture

jkwarras, i think that dano actually meant "how did you make it appear in this place within foobar interface?", not "how do you change the default foo_looks "no cover" picture to sth different?"

so, how did you accomplish that? share your secret plz

I wanna know too. Tell us all about your l33t config!

Sorry to go off topic (moderator please feel free to move/split this).

1) Create a 'fake' album list or database explorer panel like this (or put it where you want: sidebar, ....):
http://www.mokava.org/temp/Fotos/jkwarrasfakecover.png
2) Use the SeeThroughCover look (foo_look) and put it on top of this 'fake' panel. You're done.

Until we have a coverart panel, this is a the only workaround I've found

My current Column UI configuration: here

Found a minor bug:
screenshot

I was wondering when someone was going to mention that.

Great work with this foo tabs.
But, with album list, i cannot sort my list as i want to, it's just the option given in standard. I don't understand why ....
But really good work

New version.

• fixed various redrawing bugs
• got rid of flicker when resizing
• can now tab to extension windows
• better handling of attention-seeking windows

Thanks. Are you sure you're changing the options in preferences->"Album list panel" rather than the ones in "Album list"? The album list panel and the regular window are two separate components, so you have to set the options for each separately.

I have the newest version of foo_ui_columns, but I can't even see any kind of sidebar.
Is there something what I should do first?
I have ticked the "enable sidebar" and "show sidebar" from Components -> Columns UI.

Sorry to say this, but the new version has serious redrawing problems when tabs are unwrapping.


In case you don't see it, there is only three real tabs in the picture...

Whoa. XP themes seem to get me every time...
I'll look in to it.

EDIT: nevermind, happens without themes too

@kebabi:
You could try the "reset sidebar" buttons in preferences.

Try now.