I did a search for my question so sorry if it's already been answered. I'm running Foobar2k 0.9.4.2 with Panels UI 0.6.1 in Windows XP SP2 and I've got Windows configured to use "standard" (greyscale) antialiasing for the operating system fonts. However, for some reason when I run Foobar with Panels UI the fonts in the playlist use cleartype rendering (the default UI and Columns UI don't do this, both use the "standard" rendering fine). I poked around the configuration files but couldn't find any explicit reference to cleartype. Is there some option to force Panels UI to use the Windows "standard" font rendering or is cleartype hard-coded into the plugin?

Check the wiki for Trackinfo Mod for the exact command, but you can add 'nocleartype' to the options portion of your $font() function. Ex -

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the "nocleartype" parameter seems to just turn off antialiasing completely. Windows XP has three options for font antialiasing: none, standard (greyscale) and cleartype, and I want the second one. The wiki you pointed me to says that options for the $font function "can include bold, italic, underline, strikeout, nocleartype, glow- and shadow." The "can include" wording suggests that perhaps this list isn't exhaustive but I'm not holding out much hope. Anyway, thanks again.

I dont know if it's possible at all and if it's been asked before, but I think it would be cool that we could use an image for the seekbar, like in Windows Media Player.

I think I know the answer to this, but I just want a confirmation. I'm using this button command in a Track Display -

to replaygain scan selected tracks as an album. Issuing the command from the context menu works fine (or course), however when using the button -
1. if nothing is playing, nothing happens
2. if a track is playing, fb2k attempts to RG scan the now playing single track, ignoring my playlist selection

I think this is because button commands affect only now playing items at the moment, correct? I think terrestrial plans to add the option to map button commands to selected items in the future though?

If I'm wrong, has anyone else made this work correctly?

you are correct.

is there a better way to refresh the display other than right click -> settings -> click on text box -> type a letter -> hit backspace -> apply

I was holding off and experimenting a bit before I made this claim, but changing my code from '%' to $char(37) has all but cured my problem with foobar crashing when I load the panelsui config. I suspect maybe the broken syntax highlighting may have been causing the crash. So, since a few others have reported similar issues I would reccomend that once you do actually get the configuration dialog to open.. scan through your code and see if you have any large blocks of code that are improperly highlighted. Consider alternate ways to code that block of text and see if this cures your problem.

Does ui_panels support vertical scollbars? I know this was a limitation in track_info_mod. I can't seem to get an answer to this and it's not in the wiki. I have cide that is too long to display within track_info_panel without scrolling.

wolfsong: No, the "Track Display" Panel included with Panels UI (formerly knows as foo_uie_trackinfo_mod) does not support scrolling. If it did, things like %_height% $align() would get interesting.

That's disappointing. It would be nice if TIM didn't have to rely so heavily on positioning.

terrestrial had mentioned that a future version would allow you to create buttons that didn't require absolute positioning but it hasn't happened yet. It's quite a pain to add a single button to the top of a list of buttons since every button then has to be repositioned.

Hell, it's not like we're paying the guy.

it sounds like you're doing something like:

$if(blah,
// PerSecond
persecond stuff....
// PerTrack
pertrack stuff..
)

which won't work. the // PerSecond, and // PerTrack blocks have to self contained since they are executed separately.




if you don't want to display a panel, no need to move it off scree or change its size... just don't display it (using $panel()) and it will be hidden.




yeah, only the image stuff uses gdi+. everything else is gdi.



fixed for the next version. the image is rotated first, and then fitted/cropped.



you mean the context menu?



yeah, it's either have the flicker or the ability to overlay track info over other panels.



no, the indexing is only done one and pvar changes won't cause a reindex. moving/deleting items, however will cause a reindex.



well, with the .pui file, the idea is to have one self contained file with all the necessary configuration information stored inside it and having external .txt files would complicate this a bit. I have been thinking about having some sort of "global" section (similar to columns ui globals) to make managing common stuff easier.



SCPL doesn't "see" pvar changes like track display (and the panels ui base) do. however, if you change the pvar, then move a track inside scpl it should change.



you could have two different track displays- one set to follow mode and one set to now playing and automatically switch between then depending on the playback state.

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I've uploaded a new version, with two changes that need to be taken into account if you're upgrading:

1) PanelsUI subfolder (which stores the .pui files) has been move from the profile directory to the foobar directory. So, if you want you old layouts move them from your profile directory to your foobar install directory.

2) There can be multiple buttons over the same area and all will be executed (with the caveat below), instead of just the "last" one. The caveat is that button processing stops when a context menu / main menu button is executed. so you can have a PVAR:SET button, a WINDOWSIZE button, and then a button to change layout, but you can't have a change layout button, followed by a PVAR:SET button, etc (since to change layouts you use the main menu).

Um...
Nice.

/patiently awaits upload

I'd really, really like to see the text use GDI+ as well. Especially if you use GraphicsPaths so that we can place proper text on Vista glass.

Just trying to understand the change to buttons, is this what what you mean:



The two buttons are obviously overlapping, so will they be executed one after the other, first setting the pvar than pressing play?

Strange, with the last version :

-I cant close foobar

-my dropdowns and menus doesnt open anymore. And Ctrl-P doesnt work so i cant go to the preferences :$

Could someone upload the version 0.6?

I have none of the problems you describe. Though I have uploaded the old version for you. See PM for URL.

Thanks terrestrial for the new version

Ok so it come from my config somehow.
Thanks a lot for the upload anyway

EDIT: Found the guilty one.
Prettypopup and the last panelsui are not compatible. Dont know why yet as the symptoms are quite strange

Very glad to see you back, Terrestrial, and eager to try the new version.

Maybe what I"m going to say is impossible... yet it happens! The Playlist Tree Panel WILL cause problems (not serious ones) even if it is not displayed, ie:



is used. It appears to me that it is redrawing the tree, but of course it happens very quickly. So, just a flash. I'll do more testing, take out the PTP altogether, and see if that is, for sure, what is going on. If I am scripting, when a track changes, everything in foober2000 (except the sound) freezes for a second or two.

I am still trying to place a smaller Track Display over a larger one, or overlap, etc. I've been trying to create some windows-like controls, such as a dropdown list. It works very well, but (as you know I'm sure) if you hover the Track Display 'below' it, that one redraws and rises in z-order, or something like that. If I move the mouse back over the DDL, it redraws and stays on top.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is impossible, or not feasible? Incidentally, I'm using a lot of dynamic positioning/sizing based on various factors (usually on button click).

Thanks! Having a great time working with PanelsUI.

It's also incompatible with foo_oddcastv3 and foo_title (dotnet_title.dll + foo_managedWrapper.dll).

To your symptoms, I can add inability to scroll anything that can scroll, and form a selection in the playlist.

Using the new version... seems like $imageabs2 is causing shrinked images to look a little more blurish compared to version 0.6, in this case, album art at about 500x500px shrinked to 142x142px.

Same here

I am thinking more along the lines of an HTML/CSS partnership, where your content is separated from design. I don't see why a function such as:
$import('%profile_directory%/variabledata.txt')
would complicate things - it would just be an option for users that want the same general design but with different variable values.

My exact problem is, I have around 55 variables that determine shape and colour of my configuration, with some refinements I can pair this down a lot. However now that I have a black and white theme within the PUI, so that users can choose between them, I have to have 110 variables defined. For a user to then scan through these variables and change the correct ones becomes complicated. Ideally I want to have two more colour themes in my design, this would be 220 variables and the code to select between them would bog it down further, let alone finding the correct variable to edit.

Importing from files would also let me do a lot of other interesting things like scraping info from the web via a custom run command, storing that in a text file and importing it into foobar to display, all within a few seconds.

I guess I could have a hidden track display panel containing the variables for each colour theme. But then it's harder for users to find the correct file to edit (it's proven difficult to get most new users to set just one variable). Would it perhaps be possible to get a button action that lets you open a particular panel for editing?

Bug (?) report:
With the latest version i get massive memory leaking while playing track.
Task manager indicates that after a track switch fb2k allocates additional RAM for album art caching (as usual),
but then keeps allocating RAM with spontaneous jumps during track's playback.
The $imageabs2 statement is under // PerTrack section,the OS is Win XP x64 and the components are:

I can confirm that too.

I am having the same problem with images. Also, CPU usage is pegged when playing.

Does this mean you've implemented changing .pui's with a button/menu command? Or are you referring to people still using/changing a ColumnsUI layout?

EDIT: Just saw the 'context-playing' and 'context-selected' options for buttons in your changelog. Freaking awesome. I can't wait to get home to play around with this....work sucks.

EDIT2: Is there a way to control window position along with the window size button? So if you're growing your foobar window, it doesn't grow off screen, or if you're shrinking it, you can position it in a corner somewhere. Think - a button to change your layout to a small bare necessities now playing window and stick it in the corner...cool.

Thanks!!!!!, because I had the same problem. Now, I delete the prettypop's dll. (I dont know that I can do.)

can you both please post your .puis (and any images).

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I've uploaded a version which should fix the focus/image problems.

The Focus image problem is fixed in the last version

Thanks

Image shrinking is pretty good now, but stretched images looks a lot worse in the new version.

Mine is Here.

Foobar has become slower for me as well
And when I minimize foobar I see it in the lower left corner before it's totaly minimized.
I can confirm the $imageabs2 issue as well.

I noticed that the tray tooltip is working again

My rating code doesn't work anymore, first worked perfectly now the alining isn't correct anymore

I don't see anything defining 'infopanelh' in your variables. Maybe somewhere else in your code...

My memory seems to double after about 10 minutes of general use- it starts off at around 30mb used of RAM, and after 10 minutes seems to shoot up to c. 60mb. Is this normal image caching or is it a leak?

I swear in my columns_ui config, foobar hung constantly at about 30mb of ram. That was based on SCP and Track Display too.

Can anyone tell me how to load up Fofr's latest release? I tried following the directions on his blog, and they aren't working.

edit: nevermind, I sorted it.

This is what I get when I load it...

Can anyone post a link to the previous version of panels UI?

Gracias

I think it would be nice to have a page on which old version of plug-ins could be uploaded.

Would be nice to have the possibility to execute commands wiithout buttons being pressed. useful for:
-automatically resizing album art with foo_run if no resized version is present. Speeds up the playlist if album art is already resized.
-automatically downloading artist/album images or lyrics
-other weird stuff like alarm functions with shutdown and many more

This is the best idea I've heard all week Works like a charm too. There's a momentary flash as a the first track starts playing, but it's smooth between track changes and back to the stopped state.

Note: the new 'context-selected' and 'context-playing' button options only work if the full path is used for the command!

Is it possible to invoke tooltips? If not that would be a handy feature.

this looks like it will be a pretty sweet plugin when it matures. it looks like a huge improvement over the cloumns ui layout editor.

from what i see it can display formated text, images, toolbars, and other panels. thats pretty much a complete interface plugin. too bad the main window cant be removed.

but shit.. it requires .net. i havent had much luck with any .net programs. its either performance issues or bugs, especially with ati's ccc. so i stuck with the cp and swore to only install .net on my testing rig. now that i see this requirement, im not surprised to see the number of issues posted.

i hope one day it will be ported to c++ but thats probably very unlikely..

I wonder where you got the impression that this requires .NET, because it certainly doesn't. I'm in a good mood, so I'll ignore the anti-.NET nonsense/trolling. For now.

All the apps I've written in .Net have great performance... But this was not written in .Net, but possibly in an IDE (VS 2002/03/05) that supports the .Net languages.

Bug report: Latest panels ui don't check for the file "user_profiles_enabled" in foobar's program folder.

Affects: People with user profiles, and "secured" systems.

Symptoms: After several hours of setting up panels ui to users liking, all settings are lost upon a restart of foobar.

Tempo fix: (as a system administrator) create a folder called PanelsUI in foobar's program folder and give the users who want to use foobar privileges to change that folder.

Useful fix: Panels ui must check for "user_profiles_enabled" if unable to create the folder PanelsUI, and if such a file exists, use to appropriate folder in "Documents & Settings".

(BTW, excellent plugin. Love it.)

Problem is my rating code first worked perfectly and now not anymore