New in 1.04.7: Hide hidden files and file extensions.
NOTE: A few settings will be lost after update to this version.

For foobar2000 v0.9.5 and Columns UI 0.3.4
foo_uie_explorer 1.04.7 (binary)

For foobar2000 v0.8.3 and Columns UI 0.1.2.
foo_uie_explorer 0.04.6 (binary)
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Playist -> Playlist would be nice
Great panel Thanks

Looks really good, I've been wanting a panel like this.

Perhaps when you add the customizability, you could give various options for double-clicking a folder, ie add files to a new playlist, append to the current, and perhaps even have a filter for what extension files to allow into the playlist? Just a suggestion, and thanks for the great work so far.

I'll try this when at home.
Thanks!

Great Pannel! It would also be nice if the middle-mousebutton-click would be customizable. Anyway, great work!

sounds great

i'd like it if when you click the folder it makes an auto playlist i.e DATABASEVIEW

the panel shows only partitions of hard drives , not my cdr drives.
is this behaviour intended or is it a problem only for me?

Amit.

I'm thinking its the intended behavior, I see my 2 hds no dvds

I second that. Maybe optional. Like doubleclick makes an new DATABASEVIEW playlist.
Also; "Playist" should be corrected to "Playlist".

Hmm, this is not your problem.
At beginning I implemented it with removable storages, but I found a trouble there.
When it tried to find files in removable stroages and the media are not inserted, we got a error dialog "Please insert a medium".
I tried to avoid this annoying problem, but I can not find any solution.

edit: Finally I found a solution. Thank for Google.



Excuse me to ask a stupid question, what is DATABASEVIEW playlist?
Is this feature is like current "create a new playlist"?
If the answer is YES, I don't think it is a good idea for single click.
Imagine you click on a tree item, and it contains many subdirectories and files.
This operation will take a lot of time, won't it?

However, I will add some shortcuts like double-click, Ctrl+mid-click, Shfit+mid-click, etc. in the future, and they will be configurable.
Please be patient.

Only folders can be showed in the panel...Can files in selected folder also be showed ?
I think a feature that allows us to change the background color is wonderfulv...

Thinks for your work, i like it .......

Eh. Like the behavior of foo_uie_albumlist when you click on an item. Here I could imagine the pugin creating a new playlist (e.g. called "Database view" or "Explorer view") when you doubleclick a folder containing all files in that folder (and subfolders?) that fb2k know of.

For some reason my directories won't display in proper alphabetical order. I'm still using the FAT32 filesystem on this drive, incidentally. Any chance that is causing the problem?

Oh, it insert the folder one by one and never sort it.
However, in my computer all of them display in alphabetical order.
I have seven NTFS partitions and one FAT32 partition, there is no problem with them.
So I think it does not need to sort them before insert the folders in the treeview.

If there are many people have the same problem, I will consider to sort them.

That is interesting, because according to the MFC source code included with Visual Studio, CFindFile is using FindFirstFile/FindNextFile. utf8api also has a uFindFile class, returned by uFindFirstFile.

The 0.2 alpha now sorts my directories properly. Thanks for such an awesome plugin, JackieKu

By the way, if you're taking suggestions for new featues, I'd love the ability to delete files/folders from within Foobar, like you can with the foo_tunes interface.

Nice idea ... and maybe to change the coulor of background, if it's possible.
Anyway, keep your work!

((((( Strictly4me )))))

I really love this idea but i have no idea how to get it working its not in its not like all of my other components are can anyone help me. I tried to look for help but maybe I'm just bad at searching or there isn't one.

awesome idea cant wait to try it

Tested 0.02 alpha 3. Cool. Seems good to me. User configurability of mouse clicks/shortcuts could maybe be a nifty feature.... Otherwise I can't see much I miss...
I don't know if integration of foobar context menu would be an idea... but Album List already does that, so....

@nWolc: It's a panel that works with foo_ui_columns. You got to add it as any other panel.

meh well i never downloaded the thing with .dll but how do i get the newer versions to work cause i didn't found any zip or .dll for them?

Please use 7-zip or WinRAR to extract the archive.

http://www.7-zip.org/

Thank you JackieKu for a simple and nice plugin. I've been waiting for it for some times. I'm already happy with it after trying for a few minutes, but I would love it more if double-clicking will list content of the selected folder recursively. Also the ability to exclude some folders or at least drives is nice. And of course more customization options like middle click, font...are all welcome.

A very nice and useful pannel, thank you. Could you please consider adding an option to hide the 'address bar'? Also, being able to specify a folder as root, eg My Music, would be great

thx,
this is a great plugin
(i was lost when 1st time use, dunno where to activate it )

btw, is possible make it save the directory location?
each time i restart fb2k, it will return to root directory.(disable scanning the A: drive would be nice, since i don't use it anymore )

The address bar is provided here for select a folder faster. Users can type or paste a path and press ENTER to select the folder.
But if you really do not like it, I will add a option to hide it.
The feature 'custom root ' which I considered before, but I think a 'startup path' is a alternative choice and can be implemented easier.

Would it be posible to ad a somekind of favorits?

I have my music most of the times on standard places, it would improve the use of this plugin big time for me

But it is added to my standard config anyways, you get a hug for it

Can i hide the command line on the top of the panel ? I don't need it.....

Thanks Jackie. I like the idea of a startup folder. In fact I'd like to hide the address bar in order to save space, as I prefer using foobar in a small window. Also, curiously, pressing enter does nothing

Writing a path in adress bar and hitting enter makes nothing at all happen at my place (0.8.3 on XPsp2)?

"Startup path" could be a a nifty feature.....

hmm, I tested this feature in the latest 0.02b2. It's work.
I used xpsp2 and fb2k 0.8.3, too.
So I don't know why that can not work in your computer.

Tested with b2 now also, still same situation. I have a Logitech USB keyboard & mouse setup, don't know if that can have anything to do with it? Can't find spesific explanations otherwise, keyboard works with other stuff......

Anyways, this plugin is starting to look great. Thanks for your effort!

Works well and thanks for this feature!
Now i just miss a version of it, without scrollbar.

((((( Strictly4me )))))

It is possible to disable the scrollbars, but I have a question.
If there is no scrollbar, how we scroll it?
Note there are both horizontal and vertical cases.

In fact, I would add custom colors even if there is no one tell me to add time.
Since I need them, too.

ver 0.03 rocks!
Perhaps the startup path sould be automaticallly expanded, so the first thing we do wouldn't be clicking the + at its left?
it's 3am and i'm somewhat drunk so please forgive me if that's a bad idea

ive tested 0.03,
it seem have bug in "hidden drive" option,
when i type A and press "save all" button,
the explorer tree panel will become blank.

but all drive will show after restart fb2k
and, where is the scroll bar?

Yes I like to use this in my tabbed panel stack and I can't go that deep into my folders cause I can't see them, so new version would need scrollbar badly.

Nice component. Good work, thanks!
Request: Menu option for "Window frame style: (None / Sunken / Grey)"

I was wondering the same thing. Then I figured 0.03a2 might just be the same as 0.03a, but without the scrollbars (?), and dl'd 0.03a instead.

Good question. How could anyone do without at least a vertical scrollbar? (for example, 'album list panel' has an option to only enable/disable the horizontal scrollbar)

Get a mouse with a wheel

Ok, it will be added.

Edit:
It seems that Windows draw a black frame instead of a grey frame in the tree controls.
But sunken frame is fine.



I'am sorry, the 0.03a2 I uploaded before is not the latest bulid.
Please download it again to get the TRUE 0.03a2.


However, what about both horizotal and vertical content should be scrolled?

Ah... Thanks! (for adding window frame style (in the future) too)!

Keep up the good work! I hope this gets ported to 0.9

Good work ,man!
I just would prefer to have the choice enable/disable vertical or horizontal scrollbar. No idea?

((((( Strictly4me )))))

Well, if you really want that, I will add a option to disable the horizotal one.
There is some reasons that I cannot add a option to disable the vertical scrollbar. (At least I will not do this soon. )

Great!

((((( Strictly4me )))))

i have just downloaded latest build - 0.03a3 and tried it. all is great but one thing:
it seems that because now it scans for every directory not only its subdirectories but all files it takes about 30 seconds to show my music folder. maybe you can add an option for choosing basic usage : only directories tree or directories with files tree.

Thank you for your work.

Amit.

Didn't you see an option "Only show following types..."?
I think it is what you need.....

I saw that option and tried using it but it isn't helping .still takes the same time to load everytime i press on that directory.

Oh, I think you have too many directories and files in the same folder.
I have a folder contains 168 files and one folder.
It took only 1~2 seconds to expand the folder.
This component does not scan full content of a folder until the user expands the folder.
The main overhead between 0.02 and 0.01 is testing a file is supported or not supported by fb2k.
The API is provided in foobar2000 SDK, and I don't know the performance of the API.

However, I will try to optimize this part. I hope that will help you.

thanks for the fast reply.

In 0.01 it took about 1-2 seconds to open the music directory.
if this check you described is the only difference in reading the directories between 0.01 and later builds can you make this optional for the time being until a better way is found?


Amit.