Nope. No plugin needed.

Just go to:

Preferences/ColumnsUI/Layout

Create a new layout preset.

Then customize a button to:

Main Menu Item/View/Layout/the layout you created

I don't have any presets option for columns :S

What is the latest version?

e: Oh crap, I had some ridiculously old pre-alpha ;D

Here's a link to my FCS:

http://fan34.free.fr/upload/up/tool_________xx0rdark^_^.zip

what VS are you using ? another question, what do i have to do to add rating column to fcs that dont have rating columns ?

Nice stuff

I do layouts on paper first to visualize the shape and/or size of the panels, and it helps me to get the real thing done faster.

Thanks!

hey tool++ can you help me with something, im using your fcs and everytime i select a song thats either not playing or not the first song in the album the whole row goes totally black with some blue spots, where is the setting to change that, i want the text to be 191,191,191 but the selection to be black.
this is in my browser playlist, not the *all* playlist

Ctrl+P \ Display \ Columns \ Playlist view \ chick new to make a new column & paste the Autorating column codes on there..

With all the new components, I did a major revamp of my set up. Here it is:

I'm not quite sure, selecting things is weird but try going to the Colours and Fonts tab and playing with the settings there.

New layout in progress. Trying to keep things compact, but with all the functionality I want.



Props to topdownjimmy for his excellent scriptage.

yeah jimmy owns! :>

I've came up with this Gray-Blue-Green color scheme for columns a couple of years ago and have been using variations on it ever since. I've been calling it SimpleOne, but don't know if I've ever called it that here on the forums. I've had a few requests for the .fcs over time, and in some cases seen really cool variations on it. It's flattering, seeing as how I don't know anything about code and scripts like a lot of folks who design .fcs release for the community. I just like it simple, easy to read and nice looking.

Here's the laterst incarnation:



Not shown are the track, genre and columns, which I only use to make sure my albums and single tracks all have the tags I want.

brumal, I like your ColumnsUI-settings. Would you like to share your fcs?

seriously plagiarizing color ideas here

Pelican are an amazing, amazing band.


@ Chivas - the atreyu album cover is damned sexy. Anyone know who the model is? She's really beautiful.

i have a question regarding globals in Columns UI:i believe that i saw it on this thread,but i don't remember where (it got so big), anyway i saw people assigning a different color to every album in the playlist
i know also it could be done using the string to color function,and my question is:is there any way to make it
controlable like to set global variable to hold the now playing album title and compare the other (not playing)
song's album value with it and and if it fits to give it the same background color?I tried playing with it
but with no success.I'm sorry if that kind of question has already been asked here.Than you

UI columns reads the script for each track separately, no way to use next or previous tracks/albums in your UI script to do domething special.

people use $crc32() to the album field. this function returns the same number for an album, but changes when the album name changes

Yes i know but you cannot predict what color it will give you.Thanks for the reply

Using the $crc32() trick, every track with the same value for %album% will have the same background color. You would not need to store and compare anything.

But somehow I think this is not what you meant to ask. Are you saying you want to specify the color to be used, rather than rely on the random color that $crc32() provides?

If you want to choose different colors but with predefined colors, you can set a lot of colors and then use $rand() or $mod functions it won't do exactly what you want, you won't be able to predict the color, but you will be able to have only chosen colors

edit I think that it is something like that that did this user:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=383705
with hum, his personal color taste but well..

There needs to be a $playing(%field%) function
which returns the field for the currently playing.

In this way, you could do

No,that's not what i meant .I wanted to give one album let's say black color and the next one -white,and black after that,but i already understand that it's impossible.Is there really no intaractionn between the lines values?
Or at least if there was a field that gives you the number of tracks for the album it could give me a solution

you can use TRACKTOTAL but you will have to add this field manually I believe. (or with edit tags.. maybe the freedb tagger can put this field, not sure)

But there is definitely no interaction between lines..

Yes you right and i hope there was but..

Can you set variables?

Because then you could set the previous album as a variable and do some compare things.

Well then another question if i create a global variable in trackinfo panel is it also limited for use only in trackinfo panel?

That's right, you would have to store the hue value somewhere in the files if you wanted to control what colour is assigned to an album. However, to a certain extent you can limit the colours to a part of the hue scale (for example, excluding "reddish" colours - mod by (160-40), then add 40) or to a rougher hue grid (f. e., mod by 6, then multiply by 40 restricts to red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, pink).

Well thats the problem,that so called "global" variables is only global in their home line


Yes,but in this way you can possibly have two following albums with the same color and thats what i'm trying to avoid.Thanks anyway

I would also like to know what visual style you're using. It looks great.

just switched to 9.1 and am loving it so far!





cheers

I third that inquiry.

I'd bump it up in case it goes unnoticed

That looks like a bbleanskin scheme, judging by the glyphs being used, complemented with a black window color scheme.

Yeah, its bblean + bbColorEx + my own 3DC style codes + Windows Classic.

:]

Its Natalia Delano, and she really is amazing!!

http://www.nataliadelano.com/

Cheers, chivas


E: Oh Christ she has MSN...must...resist...add....

Nothing special but simple ^^

inspired by lots of people

fcs by moglenstar from neowin

p.s. sorry for the image size

Still working on this layout, but I'm liking it. Didn't like the playlist dropdown and browser combination, so went back to my old playlist switcher config. I think the few clicks/keypresses to get somewhere, the better.



BTW, for those asking for the config, I'll release it when I'm done. Until then, just work on those reverse-engineering skills.

brumal, thank you for your reply! I will be patient - since mine isn't too bad at all

one of nices configs i´ve seen so far.
great work

hmm

Thanks

I like it even better in my newest visual style:

very nice. Is there any way that you would share fcs

He already has:
http://fan34.free.fr/upload/up/tool_________xx0rdark^_^.zip

is it Playlist Tree on the right? which tag do u use to right-align the item count?

My simple layout:



It's simple and blue, just how I like it. ^^

Just switched to 0.9 and I love it.



Someone has to make a component to remove those edges though.

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