Yes I have done it


This is my config
Code for the pictures

Any chance that a single column panel will have an option to detach from playlist in the future?

If so, a panel could be created to replace album list panel with a nice list including album art

Yes! I want a replacement for foo_browser! I want album art in THERE!

I've got a quick question for the brains in this thread.

My config is set up to use a rating system that basically checks to see what the rating is (00-05) and displays that many stars at the far right of my single_column_playlist in item display. Now, I want to expand that a bit to have the play_counter influence the rating of the track. My idea was to put a bit of code right before the bit that generates the stars that says something like "if %play_counter% is less than 5, rating = 00, if %play_counter% is less than 10 but greater than 5, rating = 01" and so forth.

My problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to feed a value in to an already defined ID3 field. I thought about using $put() but it didn't seem to work. Does anyone have any ideas?

do you get a blank row on all your playlists? it's a whole blank row right- not a partial one? As for adding in blank rows, I will try to add it in for the next version.




doesn't look like it's related to scpl.. it's more likely that something else + vista don't get along.




I'm still not able to reproduce this. please post a screeshot if possible. both "Playback follows cursor" and "Cursor follows playback" seems to be working for me...



no, not really feasible here, unfortunately.




will try to get it in for the next version.



I'll try to add HSL support for the next version also.



I will fix it, but I'm curious as to what you use the globals for? It doesn't help with performance any here (in fact, the opposite). Is it so that the same code isn't in two different places, or is there another use for globals that I'm missing?



not quite sure I get this one either... maybe a screenshot?

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edit: and for the people who still have the display glitches with the rows... when you scroll, it always scrolls in whole-row increments right? The top row should always be whole...

also, for the people with the problems, what version of comctl32.dll do you have?

sorry I do not know the answer to your question, but I wanted to ask:
What do you mean the next level down? the next line? or inside the same line? Cause what I'm trying to do is to force the wrapping of the text and I can't figure out how! If use $alignabs2(,,,,, top) it does wrap, but if I set Bottom, it doesn't, even though there is space...(24 pixel high lines)

Seeing how slow SCP can become with only a few 600*600 album art, it would be just awful with a whole library... You would have to resize all your covers and even if you did so, i doubt it would go fast enough.

The blank row at the bottom is not the same height as a row, instead it appears as though the entire list is scrolling too far and the "blank line" is the height of whatever would be visible if the playlist was 1 entry longer.

I experimented by changing my row height but this had no effect on the blank row.

If the foobar window is resized vertically while the blank row is displayed, the row expands to fill the space until the blank row is the same height as normal row. At which point the entire playlist jumps down one row and the blank row begins to expand from 0 again.

When I scroll the playlist it always scrolls in increments of 1 row height (is is possible to change this to 1 pixel row? I rather like the "smooth scroll" look to things). My COMCTL32.DLL identifies itself as v5.82.3790.2778 and should be the default version for Win2k3 SP1.

A darn good explanation, thanks for that. And, FWIW, the current behaviour is perfectly acceptable to me: what I'd really like to see is $tab support.

Anyway, here (Win2000 SP4) COMCTL32.DLL is 5.81.4916.400.

HTH.

Alessandro

5.82.5744.16384 here (Vista RC2).

terrstrial, Whenever i switch to a new track with keyboard hotkeys or after searching for a track, It starts playing but the playlist does not focus on it anymore even if 'Cursor Follows Playback' is enabled. Also, My statusbar action is set to focus on the playing track upon doubleclick - That also no longer works, The playing track does not get focused.

I did some more expirimenting and found out some more details. 'Playback follows cursor' works, maybe it already got fixed or I somehow confused it with 'Cursor follows playback'



I'm listening to Orbital's Octane soundtrack, the cursor is at the bottom row of the screen. When the track ends or I skip to the next track, the screen scrolls so that the next track is visible:



Different situation:



However, when listening to the last track before a group display, and then skipping to the next song, the screen scrolls all the way back up to the top of my playlist:



The cursor is still in the right place, so trackinfo_mod and coverart panel show the right information, when I press the keyboard cursor down button, the screen scrolls back to the cursor.

Another observation:



When the next track after the group header is visible, the scrolling does work OK.



To conclude: it looks like that when the next item that is to played is not in the current screen, the whole screen jumps back to the top of the playlist.

I really hope this helps and that my explanation is understandable

this is normal behavior, then. the last "blank" row should be filled with the background color, and should always be less than the row height. this space is what's left over after all the rows get displayed (since scrolling only goes in 1 row increments). I don't think its possible to change the incrementing behavior.




$tab would be kinda redundant... you can use one of the $align functions instead.




I'm not able to reproduce any of that... maybe it's a vista thing. I'll see if I can test it out on vista later today. Anyone else with the same symptoms.. and what OS are you running?




so the playlist jumps and the focused/selected item is not visible? its off screen to the top? it should center the item in the middle of the screen.

Yes, the playlist jumps and the focused/selected item is not visible.

I'm also using Vista, I'm trying my Foobar installation on a Windows 2000 PC soon.

Coppertop to the rescue again. Exact description of the problem.

I moved my Foobar installation to a Windows 2000 PC and the problem was no longer there, so it looks like a Vista-specific problem

I really hope you can try to fix the problem, but I understand if you don't want to because it is Vista-related.

Funny thing: the garbled last line bug that doesn't occur on my Vista PC, did immediatly show up on the Windows 2000 PC.

Well, Vista isn't too far off, And it is going to be a widely used operating system. It is possible, However, That it is indeed a bug in the updated COMCTL32 in Vista. Anyone else with Windows 2003 and\or XP to test it out?

I can't display any images, I tried $imageabs(0,0,images\somerandomimage.png,) (I placed images\somerandomimage.png in the foobar-directory) but no image.
Nobody else seem to have this problem . No error, no crash or something like that, just nothing...
I have no idea what to do. No copy-n-past code posted previously in this thread works either, so I don't think its a problem with my code. Do I need to get some other plugin for the imageabs function or something like that?

The whole code:

yes, i have some strings in columns_ui globals like strings for va album detection, color schemes etc.

Would it be possible to have sort within group format box?

I've uploaded a new version. Please see if that fixes (some) of the vista issues.

Thank you very much! The 'scrolling' problem is fixed!

Confirmed, Fixed here too. As a developer, I'm interested to know how did you fix it, If you don't mind

The filesize seems to be the same.. Is it just a recompile against the vista DLL ?

some problem with LVM_GETITEMPOSITION. replaced it with some code to manually calculate the position and amount to scroll.

I see. Well, Good work

Great plugin!

I would love to have an option to control "Item rows" in the same way that "Group rows" are controlled...if it's possible.

Rob

just make the row height taller

What I meant was I would like to specify a row height and then set "Item rows" in the same way that "Group rows" can currently be set. I want to set row height to 13 and set "Group rows" = 1 and "Item rows" = 2.

Rob

You can't specify how many `lines' there are per track, but you can make the row twice as high and align some content below the first `row', so it would appear to be two rows. This is what Nick was referring to, I believe.

Can some1 tell me the code to display a picture if there is no album art.

in other words i need the code to check if there is album art present.

Can some1 tell me the code to display a picture if there is no album art.

in other words i need the code to check if there is album art present.

This is not possible to test if an image exist. But you can display a "no-cover" image : make a code to display an "no-cover" image and make another code to display the cover after the previous code. So, if there is a cover, the cover will hide the no-cover image.

My track numbers are getting cut off. All my other columns are fine eg artist & title. I've tried to adjust the row height but that doesn't seem to help. Any ideas?

What is the code you are using for your track number? Are you confining the text by an $alignabs() or $padding()?

I know that I can't specify how many "lines per track". That's why I was saying that I would like that as an option...as in a feature request. I have already increased the row height. I would just like the group header rows to be half the height of the item rows.

Rob

Try aligning your text to the "top" of the row. Some of the new microsoft fonts, which it appears you are using, have numbers that have different vertical offsets, such as 9 and 6.

I have a job. I am very busy. I don't have time to setup my foobar to my exact specifications, but I do have time to use someone else's code. I cannot find the code you guys are using in Single Column... where can I find that junk?

Thanks

You can just ask/PM the person has the Single Column config to your taste and ask for his/her code.

How did you make this layout? Could you please post your code?

This topic here.

item:

$imageabs(2,$if($strcmp(%tracknumber%,01),0,$add(17,$mul(-17,%tracknumber%))),images\album_overlay.png,)
$imageabs(3,$if($strcmp(%tracknumber%,01),1,$add(18,$mul(-17,%tracknumber%))),$replace($replace(images\albums\
$directory(%path%,2)\$directory(%path%,1)\mini.png,',',),?,),)

$font(calibri,10,bold,)
$if($strcmp(%tracknumber%,01),$alignabs(113,1,170,55,,)
$if(%artist%,%artist%,$font(Calibri,10,italic bold,)Artist unknown))
$if($strcmp(%tracknumber%,02),$alignabs(113,1,170,55,,)
$if(%album%,%album%,$font(Calibri,10,italic bold,)Album unknown))
$if($strcmp(%tracknumber%,03),$alignabs(113,1,170,55,,)
$if(%genre%,%genre%,$font(Calibri,10,italic bold,)Genre unknown))
$if($strcmp(%tracknumber%,04),$alignabs(113,1,170,55,,)
$if(%date%,%date%,$font(Calibri,10,italic bold,)Date unknown))

$if(%_selected%,$drawrect(277,1,550,16,brushcolor-216-216-216 pencolor-210-210-210))

/// Now Playing
/////////////////////////////////
$if(%isplaying%,
$font(calibri,10,,0-160-0)
$alignabs(284,1,30,12,,)
$ifgreater(%tracknumber%,9,%tracknumber%,$right(%tracknumber%,1))
$alignabs(317,1,250,20,,)%title%
$alignabs(467,1,120,20,right,)%length%

$font(calibri,10,,114-116-120)
$alignabs(691,1,220,20,left,)%artist%

//// Rating
/////////////////////////
$puts(rating,%play_counter%)
$if($greater($get(rating),4),$puts(rating,5))
$if($equal($get(rating),0),$puts(rating,0))
$if($stricmp(%play_counter%,?),$puts(rating,0))
$imageabs(604,0,images\$get(rating)s1.png,)
,

/// Inactive tracks
/////////////////////////
$font(calibri,10,,0-0-0)
$alignabs(284,1,30,12,,)
$ifgreater(%tracknumber%,9,%tracknumber%,$right(%tracknumber%,1))
$alignabs(317,1,245,20,,)%title%
$alignabs(467,1,120,20,right,)%length%
$font(calibri,10,,114-116-120)
$alignabs(691,1,220,20,left,)%artist%

//// Rating
/////////////////////////
$puts(rating,%play_counter%)
$if($greater($get(rating),4),$puts(rating,5))
$if($equal($get(rating),0),$puts(rating,0))
$if($stricmp(%play_counter%,?),$puts(rating,0))
$imageabs(604,0,images\$get(rating)s1.png,)

)




Didnt write most of this so if some1 could tell me which bit is causing the track number to cut off

I posted earlier that you might need to align your text to the top of the item row. The new Vista fonts have some numbers that are aligned differently, such as the numbers 9 and 6.

In your code, where you see $alignabs, the last two positions in the code deal with horizontal and vertical alignment. If you put "top" in the last position, I believe it will work.

For example:
Instead of
$alignabs(113,1,170,55,,)
Use
$alignabs(113,1,170,55,,top)

didnt fix it

make your row heigth bigger, leaving the text aligned to the top of the row. you'll see how many pixels you need your row to be so that the text fits.

or, change the font size (10)
or, change the font (calibri)

$if(%isplaying%,
$font(calibri,10,,0-160-0)
$alignabs(284,1,30,12,,)
$ifgreater(%tracknumber%,9,%tracknumber%,$right(%tracknumber%,1))

sune

Great plugin ;]

Bugs:

• when navigating up by keyword groups aren't skipped. e.g. if group size is 2 rows, then it takes 3 key strokes to move to the group above.
  
• When group size is 0 rows...
  I know one can say why have groups if you can't see then.. but i still have %_itemsize% and %_itemcount%
  
  Spin box doesn't accept 0, it must entered manualy.
  when restarting foobar, all i can see is a series of 1 pixel thick horizontal lines spaced by 'row size'. To make things ok i must open config, switch to 2 or something, apply and then back (manualy) to 0 and apply again.

requests:

• would it be possible to make this plugin not single instance, and add abilitiy for instances to have different configs and alsow be fixed to a specific playlist?
  
  my goal is to have one view displaying fixed playlist feed by playlist tree, displaying cover art, ane one with regular playlists.
  
  
• Would it be possible to give a group minimum item count? So that if group is smaller it is explode into several smaller groups without header?
  
  
  
• a bit more complex: ability to o add a parameter (scriptable) for groups and items descibing their height( in row count).

it is multiple instance (and with selectable playlists...). the keyboard shortcuts, however, always refer to the active playlist.

I noticed that the SDK distinguishes between an active playlist and a playing playlist. It seems that with single_column_playlist, the playing playlist is always the active playlist even though you may be viewing a different playlist. Is there a reason for this? I'm asking because I have, perhaps an unconventional layout where I have a dedicated "Now Playing" playlist and a dedicated "Browser" playlist. With this layout it is not really possible to use the foo_uie_quicksearch plugin because it always searches the current active playlist, which in my case, when viewing the "Browser", is the "Now Playing" playlist not the "Browser" playlist.

Perhaps I'm not understanding the foobar2000 concept of "active" and "playing" playlists.

Thanks.

[EDIT]

That explains the way it acts this way, for instance you could have more then one panel in your layout viewing different playlists, which one is "active" in this scenario? I only have one panel showing, and I use the single_columns_playlist context menu playlist selection to switch playlists, so this didn't occur to me.

Still, I wonder if there is some solution to using foo_uie_quicksearch, for my particular layout?

Thanks. All i needed was to place it in another tab container. And it's a bummer with these keyboard shortcuts...

$ifgreater(3, %_itemcount%,!noheader!,)

That should work, but the !noheader! command isn't working for me for some reason... Did it get removed?

no, active and playing playlists are different. in any case I've switched things around for the new version to make things work better.




you can't use %_itemcount% in the group by box... there are no groups when the group by string is evaluated, hence no %_itemcount%. it's the chicken and the egg problem.

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I've uploaded a new version. hopefully I didn't break anything.. If anyone still has graphical glitches, let me know.

No more graphical glitches for me, thank you very much! :>

Yes there are. At least the corruption at the top of the playlist remains (also reported by Squeller on some earlier version).