No I had the last version, and it does blink too. :-)

My verion of foo_uie_single_column_playlist identifies itself as v0.1 beta [Aug 30 2006 - 19:56:34] and again I do not experience any flickering. We tried tackling the code with no effect and pirlouy appears to be experiencing the same problem as you. Have you tried copying your foobar to another computer with different OS, Video, etc to see if you still experience the problem? Maybe there is interferance from another component that I do not use? Try installing a second foobar with a basic layout and see if you still experience the problem.

hmph v0.1 beta [Aug 30 2006 - 19:56:34] , this is an older version, a newer version is the sep and yea,i am using back the aug30 0.1 beta and the flickering gone

I think it is because of the update function that fixed the blank display when using tabs

it is like always updating something on the background

Oh btw, another question: When i put the image on my group display ,it is on top of my font, I cant view my text at all , any help?

the script is processed in the order it is written. If you tell it to draw text then tell it to draw an image.. it will "layer" the image on top of your text. I would suggest moving the code for your image toward the top of your script so that it is drawn before the text, and therefore the text will layer on top of the image instead.

I was out of town for a few days last week and it appears half my components got updated while I was away lol.

thank u so much, it works, silly me, been reading some code from the user example here and they put it on the bottom Thank you again

lol I just updated my component and now my foobar is flickering too. that's a definite bug in the plugin, I'm putting the older version back in :)

Tested under Windows2003 Server, WindowsXP x64, and Vista RC1. Used nVidia GeForce 6600 dualcore, Radeon 9700 AIW, and Intel GMA900. I tested it under both minimal and excessive resource availablity. I'm now fairly certain the bug is not hardware specific.

man i am having problem with the font setting ,etc

is there some sort of documentation of what can we put the syntax on the column?

for example , i am using $font(,,shadow,) but the shadow is black by default, how to set it to other color?(if can)

really need some documentation for this

You may find the foo_uie_trackinfo_mod wiki helpful as it uses pretty much the same functions as this component. There are also several excellent examples on text effects by mazy.

Ok I am off to play with my foobar , thanks m8

Just downloaded this, great.
However, the font doesn't look at all as clear as the text in the browser panel even though they have the same font settings. Why is that?

Where can i get the older version of this plugin? (Blinkin' drives me mad)

Is it just me or the keyboard shorcuts stop working with this plugin?

Great work, by the way!

Same here.

ok heres the layout ive been workin on. its not even close to being done and the way i want it. i still gotta finish the track info mod panel too.



...edit

whoops good thing i looked closely at the picture or else i wouldnt notice my compression ratio being messed up haha

You can use ctrl+ something else...

I have received several PMs requesting the older version of this component that does not blink. You can download the 0.1 beta [Aug 30 2006 - 19:56:34] version here.

does any one else have this problem indicated by the red arrow?
its the first set of items in the playlist and I can't scroll up any further.

No,but here's a few things you can try:
change the row height (foobar restart needed),try to align the text in the group dsplay part as $align(,bottom).

Thanks, resizing the row heights fixed everything!

CTRL-P. no workie.
CTRL-F, no workie.
Delete, no workie.

Please, take away this one bug <.<

Also, there's some display problems in combination with the tabs component.

Confirming Ken-chan's bug-report. It seems non-global hotkeys will not function when using this plugin. Or is it something I ought to do but haven't done?

Other than that, great plugin. I changed my whole layout around it.

Maybe i am using an old version but thouse keys are working here and keys without ctrl are working fine with the problem that the playlist scrolls up to the top.

What about different row height for group and item displays?

it was already answered... not possible right now... maybe multiple row for group will be. we shall see.



im trying to investigate this bug because i have troubles with updating tabs with other components too. im trying to find out something in this topic (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=48145) but got no response from comunity so far.

edit: typo, bad url

After seeing some people looking for a workaround for this problem, I remembered about junction utility. Maybe it's not the best solution, but maybe some people will find it useful.

Junction creates something like a symbolic link on linux systems. For people who are not familiar with this: it's like a shortcut, but behaves much more like a real folder.

To use tool++'s example:
Running will create a D:\fb2k\music link to F:\music folder. It will look like a copy at first (meaning that all files will be accessible inside foobar's folder) but this is just a link, not a real copy.

Warning: Since this is a link, changes in one of the locations appear in both locations. So if you delete something inside D:\fb2k\music, it will be also deleted in F:\music and your file will be lost. Be careful, especially when searching for "duplicated" files.

If any of you have glass.png laying around from russell's home stereo display I dicovered that it makes a nice effect for selected items under this component:

A higher transparency level might make that look a little better.

Unfortunately there are no transparency/alpha levels available for the image function, however due to the nature of the transparent gradient image all you gotta do is shift it vertically to achieve the same effect. I found this to work nicely:

$if(%_selected%,$imageabs(0,-10,images\glass.png,))

Thanks for the suggestion FofR it looks much nicer now

I think I've found a bug, but I'm not sure if this was posted already..

If you switch Edge-Style to "none", you can't change the Row height. Nice Component, though. I really like it. Go on like this!

Is there any way to have the albums sort themselves by artist, and then by date (if available), and then album title?

Also, non-global hotkeys still won't work for me with this plugin. It seems a few other people have the same problem, but not everyone, anyone have any idea why?

Mmm, I think you can. But thing is, you have to apply the row height then move foobar around. Try stetching it and it should change. Kind of annoying but it works.

@Earthworm, usually I restarted foobar after changing row height.. it works.


try this:


put it in pref > general > sort incoming files by:

I can change my row height and click either Apply or OK and the changes are immediately apparent without foobar so much as skipping a beat of the music. However, as mentioned previously regarding the flickering bug I am still using the August 30th version of this plugin. Can anyone verify if the row height bug is restricted to the newer release?

That seems to do the trick when manually adding directories, but not when getting tracks from the album list, which is how I usually get them.

if you use album list panel, select "apply core sort settings to added items"

I use a playlist for online radio stations that I routinely add and remove entries from and there simply is no way to auto-sort this list. I think that if this component were to implement it's own sorting then it would solve not only your issue but mine as well.

Ha! Man do I feel stupid for not noticing that. Thanks alot acedriver!

How do I make my text have a big left margin (for album art etc)?

If I use padding it pads on the right too and looks ridiculous.

This is what I have at the moment:



Suggestions for cleaning things up?

^^ woah, looking good. Mind posting the code for it?

Not until I make it useable.


How do you detect if there is cover available/the image exists?

Else there's ridiculous looking gaps?

You could draw a no cover image first and then draw the album art after (on top), so if there's no album art, then the no cover image should just display.

I think that would work...

Woo.

I'll try it.

Any ideas on the old padding issue?

Tool:

If you use $alignabs() functions before each chunk of text it should be a simple matter to adjust the horizontal values by a constant amount to create the left margin without affecting the right. You can also apply that constant amount to your $drawrect() functions so that the margin also applies to background coloring and selection bars.

I dont know how practical this approach would be with your code but that's how I'd go about it.

I'm not too sure but couldn't you add the left aligned text last, meaning under the right aligned text in your code so that way the left aligned text would be the only thing padded.. I'm not sure if that's possible, but you get my meaning? Sorry if I sounded ignorant there, I'm not too good with code.

I'll give it a go.

e: Arrrgh it seem sso much work. Maybe give it another go tomorrow.

Anyhow, I've been playing and made a no-art thing.


The shineyness is overlayed on all art, btw.




Is there any way I can wrap text in that left column?


EDIT: I worked out how to use alignabs properly, and thus made:



/cheers

Simply beautiful! But if i understand it correctly you had to manualy resize all the images in order to fit
the borders?

I'm still learning this whole scripting thing and I'm not great at it yet, so this might not be useful advice, but can't you use $alignabs() on the names of the artists/albums etc, and then make the bounding rectangle short enough that it fits under the album art and high enough that it can fit three lines or so, while aligning the text at the top left of that rectangle?

Man that's a long sentence, I hope it helps. I don't think that allows you to make it so that the line underneath moves down if necessary, though that would be nice, but perhaps it's a start.

Yeah I think I'll try alignabsing that text on ze left.




Indeed, did a batch job in irfanview!

What did tool++ is just amazing but i dont really want to copy all my covers. I have already done it for Rockbox, and two copies of my covers is enough for me.
I hope one day we will be able to give fullpath for images

Congrats to terrestrial for his plugin and to all of you for giving life to it.

Does IrfanView create the PNG required as well? How about the problem of moving the files to relative paths?
I really want to implement this but the hassle of configuring my music collection is forcing me to wait.

Also this component really doesn't like auto hide