Hydrogenaudio Forums > Columns UI / Panels UI appearance

blaxima

Oct 18 2006, 01:36

QUOTE(Mr. Happy @ Oct 18 2006, 03:33)

But I can't seem to figure out where to put the contents of the three txt-files...
Can you help me out with that??

There is a thread for this and this aint it

Post any questions regarding the Home Stereo display HERE

carmenm

Oct 18 2006, 01:47

QUOTE(tool++ @ Oct 17 2006, 13:02)

And area04:

IPB Image

tool++ : how do you manage to show only some of the menus? I think you do it with buttons, yet i cant find the right command while configuring the buttons.

QUOTE(maji @ Oct 17 2006, 22:49)

Still a work in Progress...

The Audioscrobbler image is dim then brightens when it's been scrobbled, which is what you see here. The checkmarks and crosses signify whether that song has lyrics available or not. And the lyrics are a hidden tab that's accesible via the button in the lower right corner. The other button is to swtich back to the single column playlist view.

maji: could you share the background image for your trackinfo mod. I love it.

tool++

Oct 18 2006, 02:39

Well it's just resized smaller than the menu is :|

carmenm

Oct 18 2006, 03:05

Oups! didnt even try to resize the menu :$

tool++

Oct 18 2006, 04:31

What I wish the devs would do is allow the menu to be opened from a button on the buttonbar.

I don't know realistically if they'd do that though, it doesn't seem like too much of a task, but who would I ask etc?

malde

Oct 18 2006, 05:00

QUOTE(tool++ @ Oct 18 2006, 12:31)

What I wish the devs would do is allow the menu to be opened from a button on the buttonbar.

I don't know realistically if they'd do that though, it doesn't seem like too much of a task, but who would I ask etc?

i'm using a bit of a trick here: using the menu with vertical caption and create left toggle area. so doubleclick brings up the menu or hides it.
but yeah, a menu button would be great

a quick edit:

put together a lot of other peoples configs

...Just Elliott

Oct 18 2006, 05:53

A context menu with the menu items and the > for going into them accessable via a button would be excellent.

tool++

Oct 18 2006, 06:10

That's a pretty good idea actually.

mmmdesktop
http://sv1.letmehost.com/sv1/21/Monitor_Ca...13.13.38%5D.png

...Just Elliott

Oct 18 2006, 06:15

(I was confused as to who you were because of your avatar change for a second, there...

)

Haven't changed much recently, but here it goes:

Code will be posted on request. (the header and trackinfomod backgrounds change to the 3d object-colour of the VS so I only have to change the album art background when changing VS)

tool++

Oct 18 2006, 07:54

Can you do buttons in the single column playlist yet?

Because that allows for an insane amount of possibilities.

musosticky

Oct 18 2006, 08:17

not as yet.....but as soon as terrestrial ports the $buttons2 function to Single Column Playlist I'll be all over it like cheap aftershave

klitz

Oct 18 2006, 09:04

I see alot of cool self made foobars, i'm new to the program myself. And i'm not really the programmer type either, so i was wondering if it possible to compress the "foobar folder" and just send it to me or something?

ubi

Oct 18 2006, 09:12

QUOTE(klitz @ Oct 18 2006, 18:04)

I see alot of cool self made foobars, i'm new to the program myself. And i'm not really the programmer type either, so i was wondering if it possible to compress the "foobar folder" and just send it to me or something?

this must be a troll!

spex04

Oct 18 2006, 09:16

QUOTE(klitz @ Oct 18 2006, 16:04)

I see alot of cool self made foobars, i'm new to the program myself. And i'm not really the programmer type either, so i was wondering if it possible to compress the "foobar folder" and just send it to me or something?

...

Go back a few pages and you'll see a response to this..

...Just Elliott

Oct 18 2006, 09:32

Am I the only one tempted to upload a zip with an empty folder named foobar?

Nitrius

Oct 18 2006, 09:32

Which plugins are most used to make all these beautiful skins?

Edit: Also is there any webpages which have and good library with ready made skins? so i just can download and install them? i've tried to make something of my own, but it takes awful lot of time

ubi

Oct 18 2006, 09:48

I hope you guys understand that foobar is so much more than just for the eye-candy... It is the best and most versatile music player ever and the trick is to learn to use it. And what a better way to learn to use it than actually trying things out on your own...
On the other hand I do understand you: "If it looks good, it feels even better!"

Russell777

Oct 18 2006, 09:56

Is it just my impression,or there's a huge wave of newcomers hitting our shore?It makes me very curious
to know where the new ppl are coming from?I mean where did they came across foobar?It's not a widespread
piece of software,so either someone tells you or you get it by accident (like in my case).
I suggest we make a poll in which everyone will tell where from did he\she get to know about foobar .

tool++

Oct 18 2006, 09:59

Well pretty much every forum I frequent now has a foobar2000 thread.

Its just because people are getting bored with winamp, seeing great setups and getting clued up slightly more about the fact that tagging is important and things.

Its just getting more talked about and things.

Russell777

Oct 18 2006, 10:06

QUOTE(tool++ @ Oct 18 2006, 17:59)

Well pretty much every forum I frequent now has a foobar2000 thread.

Its just because people are getting bored with winamp, seeing great setups and getting clued up slightly more about the fact that tagging is important and things.

Its just getting more talked about and things.

Yeah maybe so,but i'm getting strong impression that ppl tend to seek good looks rather than sound quality and
performance.

ubi

Oct 18 2006, 10:25

Seems to me that we are slipping to OT (nothing new in this thread O_o )

So...

I just had to borrow that SYSCOL coloring method from toolej and add it to my current config. I also ditched xeno.2 and made this one with flex VS. Lyrics config is switchable via hotkey, I don't like to keep all the stuff visible and that's why there are some hidden panels and the config is very minimal.
Next time I make something completely new...

blaxima

Oct 18 2006, 10:41

QUOTE(Russell777 @ Oct 18 2006, 11:56)

Is it just my impression,or there's a huge wave of newcomers hitting our shore?It makes me very curious
to know where the new ppl are coming from?I mean where did they came across foobar?It's not a widespread
piece of software,so either someone tells you or you get it by accident (like in my case).
I suggest we make a poll in which everyone will tell where from did he\she get to know about foobar .

I've been thinking the same thing!

QUOTE(Russell777 @ Oct 18 2006, 12:06)

Yeah maybe so,but i'm getting strong impression that ppl tend to seek good looks rather than sound quality and
performance.

I've been thinking the same thing!

musosticky

Oct 18 2006, 10:48

Its definitely beooming more of a phenomenon. I think it'd be in the best interest of everyone if there was a beginners forum under the main foobar2000 forum.

This way the other threads would be less bloated for the more experienced user and those of us willing to contribute can just dip in answering any and all questions we see?

Anyone agree? and if so would a moderator mind suggesting it where neccessary?

Russell777

Oct 18 2006, 10:56

QUOTE(musosticky @ Oct 18 2006, 18:48)

Its definitely beooming more of a phenomenon. I think it'd be in the best interest of everyone if there was a beginners forum under the main foobar2000 forum.

This way the other threads would be less bloated for the more experienced user and those of us willing to contribute can just dip in answering any and all questions we see?

Anyone agree? and if so would a moderator mind suggesting it where neccessary?

I've been thinking the same thing! (greetings Blaxima

)

But it will be difficult to separate the experienced users from the non experienced ones.Like when one is posting some question and you tell him:"Sorry pal,you're unexpirienced!Go play with the children in the beginners forum!".I mean how will the ppl know if they have already made a grade or not.Otherwise good idea.

ubi

Oct 18 2006, 10:59

QUOTE(Russell777 @ Oct 18 2006, 19:56)

QUOTE(musosticky @ Oct 18 2006, 18:48)

Its definitely beooming more of a phenomenon. I think it'd be in the best interest of everyone if there was a beginners forum under the main foobar2000 forum.

This way the other threads would be less bloated for the more experienced user and those of us willing to contribute can just dip in answering any and all questions we see?

Anyone agree? and if so would a moderator mind suggesting it where neccessary?

I've been thinking the same thing! (greetings Blaxima

)

I've been thinking the same thing!

Russell777

Oct 18 2006, 11:04

In conclusion:we're all thinking the same,let's stop this OT now!

Nitrius

Oct 18 2006, 11:05

The album veiw/library used in the new WMP11, what can i do in foobar to get something similar?

musosticky

Oct 18 2006, 11:08

I've been thinking the same thing!

Oh wait it was my idea....

I guess we'd have to rely on the users themselves to work out where they stand and have a closed thread in every subforum General,Support etc describing what sort of questions will be answered here and if they dont meet the criteria specified they can be answered in the beginners area.

Itd also be a great place to post various entry level guides that would hopefully pre-empt a lot of questions we get sick of answering.

I hope it happens anyway itd be nice to have a little order on these boards

Russell777

Oct 18 2006, 12:00

QUOTE(musosticky @ Oct 18 2006, 19:08)

I guess we'd have to rely on the users themselves to work out where they stand

That belongs to science fiction thread,i believe.

sHsIkuA

Oct 18 2006, 13:01

Mine

JimmyWang214

Oct 18 2006, 13:08

QUOTE(Nitrius @ Oct 18 2006, 13:05)

The album veiw/library used in the new WMP11, what can i do in foobar to get something similar?

Check back on page 146. Someone put out a complete config to clone WMP11, per my request

maji

Oct 18 2006, 14:15

QUOTE(carmenm @ Oct 18 2006, 00:47)

maji: could you share the background image for your trackinfo mod. I love it.

Uh the one behind the Artist / Title? The denimish part is a total seperate trackinfo itself. Anyway here are all the image files including the single column playlist div...

IMGS

Nitrius

Oct 18 2006, 14:45

QUOTE(JimmyWang214 @ Oct 18 2006, 20:08)

QUOTE(Nitrius @ Oct 18 2006, 13:05)

The album veiw/library used in the new WMP11, what can i do in foobar to get something similar?

Check back on page 146. Someone put out a complete config to clone WMP11, per my request

See it, but there is something i don't understand.

After Code #1 and #2 i drop out and i don't know what to do.
There is an Code there which i don't know where to go.

Edit: If someone could try to explain me how to do this, i would really be happy, i've never done this before and a lot of whats explained in the post back on 146 dosen't make any sens for me at all.

Oceanic Depths

Oct 18 2006, 14:57

QUOTE(blaxima @ Oct 17 2006, 20:46)

Are the covers that don't show an even ratio, ie 300 x 300?
If not you will have to resize them to an even ratio.

yeah, all of my pictures are pretty square...I think some of them may be at most two pixels off (498x500)

blaxima

Oct 18 2006, 15:31

QUOTE(Oceanic Depths @ Oct 18 2006, 16:57)

QUOTE(blaxima @ Oct 17 2006, 20:46)

Are the covers that don't show an even ratio, ie 300 x 300?
If not you will have to resize them to an even ratio.

yeah, all of my pictures are pretty square...I think some of them may be at most two pixels off (498x500)

Forget what I originally said. I mis-read your post. I thought you were having problems with the album art being displayed properly like with the cd case.
What you want is for it to stretch across the your header right?

This is the code Snowsfall used

CODE

$imageabs2(288,288,0,0,288,288,0,-150,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg),alpha-100)

spived

Oct 18 2006, 16:45

With all the information on this thread, this is my first foobar2000 0.9 setting.

Sorry guys if I borrowed some of your code.

Thank you so much!

Xrance

Oct 18 2006, 17:19

QUOTE(maji @ Oct 17 2006, 23:49)

Still a work in Progress...

The Audioscrobbler image is dim then brightens when it's been scrobbled, which is what you see here. The checkmarks and crosses signify whether that song has lyrics available or not. And the lyrics are a hidden tab that's accesible via the button in the lower right corner. The other button is to swtich back to the single column playlist view.

very nice, when you finish would love to try the code out.

Oceanic Depths

Oct 18 2006, 18:38

QUOTE

Forget what I originally said. I mis-read your post. I thought you were having problems with the album art being displayed properly like with the cd case.
What you want is for it to stretch across the your header right?

This is the code Snowsfall used

CODE

$imageabs2(288,288,0,0,288,288,0,-150,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg),alpha-100)

im using that code now, but it still isnt stretching the images at all. All it is doing is displaying the image centered in the header and only cropping the top and bottom. As of now, my code is:

CODE

$font(calibri,10,boldshadow glowalpha-0,)
$alignabs(20,10,180,110,,)%artist%
$alignabs(20,25,270,110,,)%album%
$alignabs(20,40,120,110,,)%date%
$imageabs2(288,288,0,0,288,288,0,-150,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,folder.jpg),alpha-100)

but im still getting this:

I've tried:

CODE

$imageabs2(%_width%,%_width%,0,0,%_width%,%_width%,0,-150,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,alpha-100)

as well, but I get the same results

R@ül

Oct 18 2006, 18:54

My modified foobar, Cepiperez thanks to help me, your creation is excellent!!

blaxima

Oct 18 2006, 19:19

QUOTE(Oceanic Depths @ Oct 18 2006, 20:38)

im using that code now, but it still isnt stretching the images at all. All it is doing is displaying the image centered in the header and only cropping the top and bottom. As of now, my code is:

but im still getting this:

I've tried:

CODE

$imageabs2(%_width%,%_width%,0,0,%_width%,%_width%,0,-150,$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)folder.jpg,alpha-100)

as well, but I get the same results

This is the code I use to get a single background image for my headers.

CODE

$imageabs2(500,500,0,0,500,500,90,-150,'D:\Multimedia Tools\Audio Tools\foobar2000\images\header-back.png',)

If you really want your foobar to have the albums in the header like Snowsfall they will all be cropped. Find the dimensions of an image that works for you and (batch) resize all you images to the size that works. Thats all you can really do

::rzr::

Oct 19 2006, 03:59

Well here goes- my first attempt at an UI after strolling throught the forums (and PM'ing you all about questions and problems)

The hard parts were:
- finding out about the rating plugin
- finding out what all the syntax of the cmd's are ($font / $imageabs2 / etc .. )
- finding out vertical splitter is horizontal and horizontal is vertical (wtf

)

But all in all im quite happy with the result - it fits my needs almost completely. I still have some very difficult questions which I really need to find out, these are the following:

- When I add an [Playlist switcher], I see the [Library view] and my other playlists. But only [Library view] shows in the [Single column playlist] when I press the others only the [ColumnUI Playlist view] gets updated. Is there any way to show and directory view and playlists?

- I have read something about an Album Cover plugin (run command) but I cant seem to find it anywhere anymore. Is there something like an cover retriever which automaticly saves the album cover?

Thanks in advance for the answers. And thanks for this great program and all of your sweet looking UI's.

mobyduck

Oct 19 2006, 05:29

QUOTE(::rzr:: @ Oct 19 2006, 01:59)

- I have read something about an Album Cover plugin (run command) but I cant seem to find it anywhere anymore. Is there something like an cover retriever which automaticly saves the album cover?

Perhaps here?

HTH.

Alessandro

...Just Elliott

Oct 19 2006, 06:25

If he was talking about the foo_run one, he probably meant mine. Maybe.

::rzr::

Oct 19 2006, 07:12

QUOTE(Alessandro @ Oct 19 2006, 06:25)

Perhaps here?

HTH.

QUOTE(...Just Elliott @ Oct 19 2006, 06:25)

If he was talking about the foo_run one, he probably meant mine. Maybe.

Thanks guys! I've used the standalone version for now - as I had to do all my directory's. For future expansion I might use the php one, though I'm not rly fond of installing it on this machine.

OpiX

Oct 19 2006, 08:09

Any idea what is the name of this VS?

thanks

Raven.am0k

Oct 19 2006, 08:40

It looks like a Windows Vista VS...but i don´t know which one

look at www.deviantart.com

OpiX

Oct 19 2006, 09:58

QUOTE(Raven.am0k @ Oct 19 2006, 16:40)

It looks like a Windows Vista VS...but i don´t know which one

look at www.deviantart.com

there are too many, and i am lazy

Funeral

Oct 19 2006, 10:21

Updated mine.. Not quite finished yet, because I'm having problems with trackinfo-mod code and single column playlist code, but i'll soon figure it out.. I guess :-P

Guess I also have to put some kind of buttons to my layout, though I often use keyboard shortcuts.

lizzard

Oct 19 2006, 11:16

Here my foobar, thanks to CepiPerez. All of this is all his work, not myne, because i still don´t understand code.

regards.

Nitrius

Oct 19 2006, 11:17

Have a question, about the single_column_playlist plugin.

Atm i have it configured that it shows.

Album --------------------------------------Artist

track1
track2
track3
track4

and so on.

For example:

Greatest Hits ------------------------------Billy Idol

1.Dancing with my self
2.Mony Mony
3.Hot in the city

But if i have an album with Various Artist, then the artist stays at the same, if anyone understand.
So i wonder, if there is a string or something which will enable the artist view to switch as you switch or select another song in the album, with various of artists?