nope.
im using the default setpoint drivers, which i used the registry hack to work with foobar.
the keys work perfectly in every other ui, its just panels

Is it possible to add the option to buttons to refresh the panels? I've a button switching some design in the playlist and want to update it after the button has been pressed.
Right now I'm using a 1 pixel difference to force a redraw (pl_info can only be 0 or 1):


//EDIT
Is there a way to get a Playlist Tree panel to redraw and update correctly? Everytime the panel needs redrawing it is just showing some parts redrawn and those in bold, though the text shouldn't be bold.
//EDIT2
Found the error. Playlist Tree behaves very strange when displayed in two foobar instances at the same time
//EDIT3
Can't get foo_rum to work with buttons and CONTEXT-SELECTED.... what's the full path i need to use as a command?

I know how to set up a button to change to order to "Default":


Does anyone know the command to "Shuffle (tracks)"?

Thanks in advance,

Dennis

edit: Also, does someone know how to link a playlist to a button?

Virtually all button commands and panel names can be found in the upper left portion of the configuration window.
I mean seriously, did you try Shuffle (tracks) before asking?
You would need an extension which adds the playlists to one of the menus.

Button commands seriously aren't this hard. Either the command is something found in the context or main menus or it is one of the specific things outlined on the wiki.

eerr wow, sounds messy.

I tried, but it isnt working Does it work for you?

Yes. You are wrapping it with single quotes, right?

I did, but it still isnt working...can you maybe give me an example?

Thanks in advance,

Dennis

edit: ah, i already figured it out...one of my functions was giving problems. thanks tho!

edit2:

QUOTE

You would need an extension which adds the playlists to one of the menus.

Would you happen to know such an extension?

not really, its essentially adding the program to setPoints list of programs (ie: winamp, wmp)

proprietary-compatibility-nightmare = messy, IMO.
But this threads not really about my opinion, so just ignore this post.

Suggestion: The blue bracket highlighting is useful, but almost not recognizable on my notebook (1024x768). Can you make the highlighted brackets bold please?

Seeing whats done in a lot of software, instead of changing the char font color you should change the char background color.

And i agree we dont see it enough

thanks

Does anyone know why, ever since switching to Panels UI, my drag'n'dropped playlist items always move to the bottom of the playlist? In ColumnsUI, there was an option to have dropped items insert wherever you dropped them. That option, while still set the way it was, obviously doesn't function since i'm using Panels UI. Thanks for any help you can provide

thank you a lot alphameric.

Are thin kind of function documented anywhere?

i was trying to find but i ended with nothing...

is it possible to to put two or more panels into one row not into three different?
like volume, seekbar & playback order

and what are those config IDs and name (from wiki)
$panel(ID,name,x,y,width,height)

can you give me some list of them..


PS
If it is somewhere in a topic i am sorry but the search engine was down.

I don't know what you mean by "put two or more panels into one row not into three" but a panel ID can be whatever you want. You can find each panel name in the panel configuration window. Click the drop-down selector.



The ones you are specifically looking for are called Volume, Seekbar, and Playback order.

This may have been already answered, but when this is enabled, foobar doesn't appear on the task bar anymore. Is there a way to fix this?

Did you try the uh..options?

hah that was stupid of me

im sorry , im not sure i understand the question

Hi,
I feel that with Panels UI, the foobar window is responding slower :
minimizing to tray for example, and also the taskbar button doesn't get the focus anymore (doesn't looked 'focused') when closing another window and foobar is automatically given the focus back.

Sorry for my poor english,

There is somewhere, a list of panelsUI keyboard shortcuts?

Terrestrial :
Looking for the ultimate config, there is one feature that i miss from Columns UI. The ability to change the size of a panel using the mouse on one corner of the panel. I dont if it is possible but if it is it would be awesome to have it as an option of the panel. And it would be even greater to be able to choose which sides of the panel are resisable.

So it s a little feature request

Thanks for your amazing work

Keyboard shortcuts are native to foobar and work regardless of which UI is used.
you can find and set them as you wish in Foobar's Preferences.

Alphameric's situation is unique because his logitech keyboard does things it's own, proprietary, way.
If you also have a Logitech keyboard then the shortcut keys probably won't work until Terrestrial, the developer of PanelUI, "fixes" it.


you could already do this (well, something close to it) with some code.

You mean with egoh s component?

no. I mean with PanelsUI.
think about it, all you're talking about is buttons and pvars and panel size.

PanelsUI already has all of these.



What you are directly asking for would be nearly impossible, and is already perfectly implimented by columnsUI itself.


In CSS, for example, you can either style webpages by using Float positioning (which is similar to Columns) or by absolute positioning (like Panels). If you'd ever try to create a page using both elements simultaneously, you get terrible, messy, incoherent results.

This may have been answered before, but I can't find it and am unable to figure it out... Whenever there is no track playing in Foobar (with Panels_UI as the interface), the Title Bar just show a question mark (?).

Is there anyway to change that to either say Foobar2000 (like the default UI and columns UI) or even better a way to customize it.

Thanks!

The question mark is displayed when you have told foobar to display a variable (let us use %tracknumber% for an example) however there is no data available for that variable. You can compensate for this by telling foobar to only display the variable if there is data available like this:
[%tracknumber%]
or this:
$if2(%tracknumber%,)
Or if you would only like to display data when a track is playing like this:
$if(%isplaying%,
%tracknumber%
,)

Quoting this for the next page i hopes someone has some idea what I'm doing wrong

I did find it a tad strange that titlebar behaves like Track Display in Mode: Now Playing. I got over it. More interestingly, $extra(foobar2000_version) does not work on the titlebar. It displays [UNKNOWN FUNCTION]. It looks exactly as it should in the preview, so I believe this is a Panels UI issue.

terrestrial, I know you're inundated with feature requests, but I have to add another of my own. I thought of something that may be quite useful. Through the configuration window or through whatever means you see fit, include the possibility of viewing a "debugging" window that shows a tabular list of all the current variables in use ($puts and $pvars) as well as their real-time values. Perhaps the variable values can even be manipulated or deleted entirely via this window for further debugging. Just a thought.

using v.0.8.1

just updated, are tagz not working in this version for the main window title, tray icon, etc.?

for example, for the main window title, i had

CODE

%album artist%
-
%title%

and got

?-?

then i put the tagz in [ ]

CODE

[%album artist%]
-
[%title%]

and got

-

should an extension even alter the main window title, tray icon menu, etc.?

gregory: tags appear to be working fine for me and what you have posted is the expected output for the code. Maybe you are looking for something along the lines of this:


btw foo_ui_panels, although it does require columnsui, is named and developed as a UI not simply a UIE. so I do believe it is free to muck about with the user interface quite a bit more than a typical extension.

You're referring to a 'Watch Window'. Guess it could be useful for some stuff, But definitely not the easiest thing to implement, Maybe going even a bit out of place with a scripting language.

damn, I still don't get how to use the windowsize option on buttons. Can anyone care to explain how to use as if I was really really dumb?

@gregory

Adding to what Yotsuya said, the PanelsUI scripting for the main window title does not have a default for a not-playing state. So you have to define it, either as Yotsuya posted, or using $if(%isplaying%,....).

I've also noticed that you must restart foobar to see the changes you've made correctly.

$if(%trackinfo_notrack%,,)
Is probably more useful considering it stays true during a paused state.

Does that work for the window title? I thought it only worked in a Track Display panel.

Ahh found it, here's terrestrial's post -
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=479065

are we still talking about the window title?!?
never mind me then.

I guess I assumed that this being the panelsUI thread and all, this was about panelsUI.
silly me.


in that case,
@greg-baby
You can hide the titlebar and create a pseudo-titlebar of your own. see my config as an example of this

PanelsUI (I assume in great confidence) will always be dependent on ColumnsUI for generating panels, since the different panels themselves are written for ColumnsUI. So that considered, it makes sense to let Columns do the things it already does perfectly well, like take care of all those little formating strings.

no, not yet. there will eventually be a way to delete pvars though. and editing the .pui files in notepad is almost always going to corrupt the file



do you know the dimensions of the image you want resized? if so, then you would just set one side to what you want, and the other to a large number.




check your user / layout globals.



nope, none of the previous versions stored the window position in the .pui (although it might be a good idea for the future).




backup the .puis often and if you can reproduce it, let me know.



you might need to change the target of the key presses. panels ui uses different a window / class id than the default (or columns) ui.



there will be a way to delete pvars (maybe it will display values too, not sure yet). you can already do a real-time watch for pvars using a regular track display and $getpvar (but you will have to know all the variable names).




actually, no it doesn't require ColumnsUI (although the default layout uses panels from ColumnsUI, like the menu and seekbars).

First, you'll have to know the aspect ratio of the image you want to use, because AFAIK, foobar cannot retrieve this information from an image file. For this example I'll assume it's a standard 4x3 ratio and you want to keep the upper left corner of the image at the 0,0 coordinate of the panel.



I think that should work. You may want to add an arbitrary number of pixels to the dimension (like 5) to compensate for rounding and avoid any small borders.

Correct! There was a mistake in USer Globals, I noticed it a few minutes ago. Thanks for the reply anyway ;-)


I've been trying to do something like that, but I have lots of problems with rounded values and finding the dimension to use as basis. Everything gets messed up quickly if I play with the aspect ratio of foobar.
My code is on another computer, but I'll paste it later. Maybe you'll find something.

Well the code I posted above should work for any background image that is a 4x3 aspect ratio, regardless of the size/ratio of your foobar panel. That's why the $get(bg) variable is based on the panel width and height, so it can change along with it. If you change bg images to something else, modify the ratio in the code and it should still work.

I haven't tried it, but I would like to know if it does what you want it to.

Don't know if this has been answered before but is it possible to put text on top of glass because it looks washed out behind the glass.

It doesn't seem to work :-(

But I have found a solution



The main problem I had came from my previous comparison that generated non-integer results


As you said earlier, now I just need to add some pixels to remove black borders.

Aww geez, I went braindead. I missed a ) and I forgot that you can't stretch an image greater than it's original size if you don't use 'nokeepaspect'. So here's the corrections edited for your 16x10 ratio -

That's more or less the same code as mine so we agree! Thanks for your help

Sorry for duplicating the question. Can SCPL make subgroups (that is. can it group particular tracks inside album-groups)?

not really.

You could do something like this though:


based on %track% and %totaltracks%

Using right mouse button to drag files to other apps/folders doesn't work in panels_ui. Would be a real nice feature.