I think that looks like it might work. I have only been using panels ui for a day or two so I am still getting used to how it works. I will fiddle around with that later. If anyone knows of any configs of a library filter that does open different trees depending on tag structure that doesnt have this problem, please point me towards them so i can have a look to work out how it all works. THanks

I really hope terrestrial hasn't stopped developing the component cause of bad feedback from older foobar community people.

I'm using 0.13.8 beta (June 12, 2007) Thats the one linked from the post in the OP. Is there a newer version? Also, how can I tell which version is the latest? In the past the only way I could tell was by downloading the link, overwriting the old component in my foobar directory, restarting foobar, loading the preferences, and seeing if the number is greater. Seriously, nowhere in the OP, nor on the download page does it say which version is current. At some point I just kind of gave up on updating the thing.

I think this is possible. Or he may be just in holidays? If anyone knows more, let us know.

Some of the criticism in that thread while not positive was at least constructive (such as foosion's), but some of the latter from a certain member was utter verbal flatulence. I too hope it didn't turn him off or discourage him. There's obviously a lot of us who appreciate the time and work he's put into this component.



You can download the latest version released here (version 0.14.2 beta [Jul 18 2007]), but keep in mind there are many new changes, some things work differently, or may be buggy, so make backups of your PUI files, and refer to the wiki; the new changes (syntax and deprecated functions) are all documented, the latest version number is usually documented on the wiki as well.

i hope he is in holidays.. meritated holidays.

Indeed. Come back terrestrial!

Btw, does 'always on top' work for anyone or is that still a feature to be implemented?

That's exactly what i wondered today. Guess it's still on ToDo (not only the command via PanelsUI code but also the one accessable via menu)
At least I enabled it and nothing happened...

I so hope terrestrial is fine.

The !null! function in Library filter doesn't work for me anymore... I'm using 0.13.8, and this code:

$if(%favourite%,%favourite%,!null!)

also tried

$if2(%favourite%,!null!)

I'm pretty sure it has worked before, but not anymore. I get the questionmark in LF on all those tracks that don't have the %favourite% tag..

Anyone know what the problem might be?

Have you checked this with the latest version?

No, I don't want the latest version, yet... My whole config is written in the former language, and I dont want to rewrite everything as I just wrote it. It should work with !null! but it doesnt :S

The old syntax still works in the latest beta. Just back up your PUI if you want to downgrade later.

Is there a bug with %_trackinfo_notrack% in 0.14.12 beta ?

Its output seems broken.

I also hope terrestial keeps the development for this great plugin, but I thank him so much for the work he's done so far.

It works fine.
Did you install foo_uie_powerpanels?
This component causes it.

^ Yup seems to be the case.

$not(%isplaying%) might do you for the moment though.

is there a way to embed all album covers of a particular artist? wanna make something like apple's coverflow... all my covers are stored in one directory and named like that: %artist%.%album%.folder.jpg

Thats not been my experience. The latest panels throws my alignments off and some of my fonts lose their colour

There might have been some changes, as long as you don't enable $newsyntax() there should only be small annoyances?! My config worked fine (and it was coded when panels-ui wasn't existent at all), but it's a rather simple layout. Anyways, it worked.

Hi,

I'm using the newest version of panelsUI available, but I still got the same problem with playlist switcher. In every panelsUI-based config, it's not transparent. Someone wrote that it depends on columnsUI - I also updated that component, but it didn't help. Any suggestions?

The only way that the playlist switcher can be transparent is if your using ColumnsUI as your default display not panelsUI

Has found a bug!

In "Single Column Playlist"-> "Item Display" if to write $calcwidth(%length%) and to play song that after 10-30 seconds begins outflow of memory in 4 KB every second, that is visible in windows tasks dispatcher.

I've tried the $rand() function in Group Display in SCP and it seems that it's not working properly. The function itself works but it doesn't display the result properly; visual glitch.
for example, it displays the top of "8" with the botton of "4". it's always the first half of a number and a bottom of another number.

could anyone try it out to see if it's just me?

PanelsUI v0.14.14beta

Works fine here. May depend on your font/size settings and/or the "environment" (alignabs and so on)?


Where'd you get that one from, wasnt 0.14.12 the latest released beta?

Tell please as works "FILTER:name|value:name2|value2" and what is "name" and "value"?

woops my bad. that'd be .12beta not .14beta.

i've tried different fonts and it still does it.
i've tried it on two different machines and one had a fresh install of foobar.

But as far as I remember I saw some screenshots of people's panelsUI skins, where playlist switcher was transparent. I'll link a pic if I find one.

EDIT: take a look: http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php?image...t_122_952lo.jpg
comes from http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....41&st=25#38

Is there any way of having the artists listed by their directory structure, and not by the artist name?

Isn't that on Vista though?

Well, as you can see, there is no playlist switcher panel shown there.
Probably the person who took that screen shot didn't have columnsUI installed.
What blaxima has said is correct.
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If you're talking about in the Library filter, then yes. You'll need to change the 'criteria' for that entry in

file -> options -> PanelsUI -> Library filter.
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That would really suck.
There are obviously more than plenty of people that appreciate his work.

Oh, I see. Thanks a lot.

About the developement: hope it's untrue cause PanelsUI brought skinning foobar onto a new level and mostly for the easiness of installing themes, it can really bring new users to foobar, who found adjusting the user interference rather difficult in the past.

Is there a way to have the Library Filter not to show the root of the library and have the list expanded by default rather than having to click the root?

I have it like this:

Library (root)
.. Artist Name
....Album 1
....Album 2

I would like it to have all the artist to display by default rather than having to click on "Library".

Yeah, what do I need to change it to? I changed it to "Directory" but that just listed the albums for each artist by their directories.

It's probably going be a lot of code.

It sounds like maybe an easier solution for you might be to try tagging your files with the %album artist% tag standard if you haven't already.

I'm trying to make the long album titles cut (in order to do not go over the date just like in the following screenshot).



I thought the good solution was putting something like $tabx(30) before %album% but actually, I get an unknown function error when I do so.

Anyone knows how could I solve this problem ?

$tabx(30) is new syntax, have you put $newsyntax() somewhere in the SCPL config?

Anyways, perhaps you could try to cut the album title (you'd have to calc the space available for it and how long it could be.. don't know if it's a good solution, just came to my mind)

Well. I don't know how panelsui work but I'd probably sove it with the $cut(a,len) function (where a is the string and len the length)...

Thanks for your answers.

Unfortunately, none has solved my problem :

eisteh > what do you mean by SCPL config ? I've put directly at the beggining of "group display" $newsyntax() and it does the same. If I put the old syntax $_tabs(30), it does the same too.

zachastrife > I thought about the cut function too, but I just hate this solution. It cuts the words after a certain number of letters, I'd prefer something who cuts the words depending on a number of pixels as 30 "i" doesn't fit the same space as 30 "m"... (other problem: if I maximize the windows, the titles will be very short).

$alignabs()

This is very easy. What you want to do is shrink the size of the "bounding rectangle".
since you want to adjust the size of it based on the width of the window. You'll want to make sure you use %_width% in figuring out the width parameter of the $alignabs().
I'm not going to do it for you.

I would also do it like you just suggested, shakey_snake. Though i've have seen that text, which was "cut" by alignabs, behaves very strange sometimes.

@ Superunknown: For tabx(x), perhaps you need something like alignabs first? Perhaps tabx doesnt know relative to what the text should be indented?

To help you out with alignabs:


This did the trick for me. You would have to add another $alignabs for the date tag, though. You should be able to figure that out by yourself as its pretty easy.

shakey_snake's solution works like a charm ! Thank you very much !
Then, to make it works perfectly, do you think it's possible to add 3 dots ("...") when a text is cut, just like it does with Columns UI ?

Has found a bug!

In "File" -> "Preferences" -> "Display" -> "Panels UI" -> ("Track Globals" or "User Globals") if use $fileexists(...) but if used $cwb_fileexists(...) its OK.

For example:
Then in "File" -> "Preferences" -> "Display" -> "Panels UI" -> "Sort/Group" -> "Some Criteria" $get(isWithCue) always return false, but in "Single Column Playlist"-> "Item Display" work well (not always return false)

I hope Terrestrial is okay, he hasn't been active for over 2 weeks.

Since terrestrial still MIA, I decided not to use Foobar anymore. Until he comes back I'll be using Windows Media Player 11.

same here. moved to itunes 6

Is it not possible to have multiple commands with a button???

Not natively. Just make 2 buttons with the same position like


The order of the buttons MAY be important. Some commands don't work if they are below another button or vice versa.

Nope. But I'm pretty sure you can place multiple buttons in one spot - someone, by all means, correct me because I'm not sure about that totally

Thanks :-)

Found a bug: When you remove the windowborders, the mouse resize-cursor does not show when it leaves panelsui, only when it enters. Just a little annoying.

Edit: And btw, I'm sure that terrestrial is fine, he's probably just pissed over the flamewar between him and the developers. See his latest posts. Just a shame that something like that ends development of great components.

Welcome!



With disabled titlebar, I can only resize the window on the top (including the top corners) At least the resize cursor wont show up anywhere else (no matter if I go from panels_ui -> border or from outside panels_ui -> border)
Did anyone mention already, that the title bar buttons (close, minimize/maximize, exit) loose onMouseOver focus when something in panels_ui is updated? As soon as something changes (progressbar advances, playback time changes) the buttons mouseOver effect disappears though my mouse is still on it.