How come that fonts with the same size are rendered bold sometimes and sometimes not?
Would it be possible to add an option in one of the next releases to enable cleartype rendering? it just doesn't look good if the rest of your layout is rendered with cleartype and the text in chronflow is rendered with a different method.

1) ok i'll deal with

2) my album title start with 1 space char ... that explain all.

==> could you ignore spaces for this functionnality ? cause i use this for album title :

' '%album artist%$char(10)%album%

$char(10) allow to have a break line, but 1st line (%album artist%) is not centered with the 2nd line %album% when using this ... so i have to add 3 spaces before %album artist% to center it

that's a shame that inhibate this option

thanx for answers

EDIT 1: Album Title fied allow to use titleformatting but if done, "Find As You Type" option could not work because it start with a '$' ... i.e if i use this to not repeat artist name if already included in the album title :

$ifgreater($strstr(%album%,%album artist%),0,%album%,%album artist%' - '%album%)

i think i would be more simple to bind this option "Find As You Type" by default with %artist% or %album artist%, i don't think this is more difficult to code and i think it would be more coherent, no ?

EDIT 2: i've just find a solution to make it work and having my 2 lines centered ... i put the 3 spaces at the end instead of at beginning ...

I guess that's not possible, but I also can not test it, since win2k does not support cleartype. So that's a no-go.

That will work just fine. Actually that's similar to what I'm using and is also the reason for the current implementation.
It would be very unintuitive to search for a string that is never displayed anywhere.

I have nothing new to add. However, I do want to take a brief moment to express my appreciation for this plugin and extend many many thanks to the creator. I've experienced no problems with the most recent version, and the new improvements look stunning.

This plugin is such a breakthrough for me, that I find myself completely hooked on building themes again. For me, this plugin is up there with some of the all time best I've ever seen released for foobar. Thanks!

Chronial your component is amazing! Works perfectly here with lower cpu consumption and 8 passes (Supersampling). Thank you very very much!

First of all: 3.0 works for me
I recognized something but I don't know if it is intended:
When I minimize foobar2000 and then reopen the window the chronflow loads the cover again. I didn't recognize this in the 2.1 version.

that is because the option "empty cache when window is minimized" is enabled. you can disable it in the performance tab.

Thanks a lot for this answer

@all: We could create a layout topic in the upload section for different configs.

Thanks

Happy to hear that .

Hello to all

I have a big problem that I can't understand where it is from.
Please look at this picture:



The transparency and the background include errors
What would be the solution for my problem please ?
Is the background transparency only* available under Windows VISTA ?

*Config:
-Windows XP SP2
-Graphic: ATI MOBILITY FireGL T2. (Driver: ATI RADEON 133.2.1.1.1-070206a-043154C)
-Ram 2.0Go
-Foobar 0.9.5.1 + all the required updated plugins

If you want some details, feel free to ask

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

Hey, Chronial.

I've tried this example.
It does indeed freeze upon clicking for a fraction of second, but only the first time. All subsequent clicks are detected quite smoothly, without any delays. The game's fully playable.

I know it's rather stupid, but could you play it up to the later levels, pls? Since at the first levels there are only about 5 objects on the screen and as far as I understood you, you only get real problems when the cover count is getting big.

There is no transparency support available in this plugin at all. It has no transparent background and you are not supposed to place any transparent panels over it.

Ok thank you for your answer.

But, would you have an idea about my cronflow display problem (Ref. My Screenshot in my previous post) please ?

When I had this error, I used Catalyst driver.
So I decided to try another one, I install OmegaDrivers.
(Maybe it's a problem of OpengGL or DirectX...)

But it didn't fix my problem and I have now this error at the lauching:
"Couldn't get a Hardware accelerated PixelFormat" .

I saw on this forum that many people had this error too, but the solutions proposed don't work :-/

Thank you

P.S: Your work is really awesome ! Congratulations for your efforts .
We have to say when people make some excellent works

Okay, played it to level 8, until Game Over. No change.
Yes, the problems are becoming problems only with decent cover count, but they are noticeable with any amount of them (when it's only 1, though, you have to click on the coverflow repeatedly and very quickly to notice the interference with the channel spectrum panel). This is not the case with the game example, because while the first click yields one distinctive freeze, all following do nothing in that regard, no matter how quickly I'm clicking.
That's in window mode. In fullscreen I'm getting another one (kind of double-freeze) occurring at about two seconds after the start of the game, but after those two everything's smooth. That one is unrelated to clicking, and can occur before or after the first, depending on the time of the initial click.

Is there a way to make it so when double clicking on an album it is played now, even when there is something playing currently?

Also is there a way to organise it into playlists? I have FLAC, classical and archive and wish to organise this into the same categories?

Love this plugin. Thanks!

Hey Chronial, i don't know what's change, but the last version works for me. No more crashes and fast cover loads!
Thanx! Many Thanx!
Using OpenGl 1.2 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

This will sound dumb but I can't find how to activate the component. The preferences for the component are here, the console says nothing special... I just don't see it. Please help.

Is my comp too old to even display it (PIII + Riva TNT)?

Hey Chronial,
great plugin, I love it! especially with the 'smooth' skin made around it.

However there is one thing that might need some improvement: With super-sampling all the covers in the background look nice and have soft edges; however the textrues themselves look very blurry then (this is especially annoying with the active front cover).
Using Multi-sampling or nothing at all (can't see a difference between those) leaves the front cover nice and crisp, but the egdes of the other covers look ugly then.
Is it possible to use SS for the background covers and leave the front cover unfiltered? Or use the filtering only for the edges?

Thanks, and keep up the great work.

You have to use Columns ui (or Panel ui) and then add the chronflow element to your layout.

I'm using 16x multi-sampling and all the edges look very smooth. perhaps you should update the drivers of your graphics card if multi-sampling doesn't work.

Sry, but I'm really getting pissed of, when I'm spending my time to write a complete help page and people think they are too good to read it...
Both your "questions" are answered there...
Supersampling should always improve rendering of every cover. If you notice a bluring of your front cover, you are either looking to closely (there is an extremely minimal bluring, but that's not noticeable in real use), or you have not set your cover size correctly.
RTFM, dammit.

Thanks.
Chronial do you plan making a DefaultUI version?

I don't think the DefaultUI SDK is out yet so nobody can make any components for it yet.

hi
first gg for this awesome component.
i ve got one prob: i ve got many folder with only one or 2 tracks and i want chronflow to ignore these. (or ignore files with no album tag)
how should i config the database filter ?
thx

Chronial, sorry for my delay in replying; it's been a hectic week. I have Nview set to disabled and am using the latest Nvidia drivers, but your plug-in still displays only gray boxes in place of album art and crashes when moving it (as a dockable panel) between my two monitors. Any ideas? Everything worked fine with the previous version of your plug-in. Thanks for any help offered and for the great plug-in!

@Joelimite
That is very difficult. I'm making heavy use of rather unusual (not used by games) OpenGl features (seperate texture loading and rendering thread etc.). And OpenGl on a PC output or multi-monitor system is a very difficult topic. I guess I can't help you there. The last version brought heavy internal changes, that are quite likely the reason for your problem. Sry, you'll have to stay with the old version.
The crash is in your drivers (nvoglnt -> NV=Nvidia, OLG=OpenGl, NT=WinNT), that's a black box for me. I do not have the resources to do extensive testing with your specific setting and implement a workaround .

To ignore files with no album tag: "album MISSING". You should move the complete albums into another subdirectory as the single tracks (that's the way I do it), then you can use %_path% HAS "\full-albums\").

is there a way to do the opposite: put all singles in a \singles\ directory and ignore it ? (less work to do ^^)
thx in advance

You should only quote the part of the message that is relevant - not everything.

NOT %_path% HAS "\singles\

On my single tracks I've removed the track numbers and are using 'Tracknumber IS *'
Works better than the groupings I've tried in the past.

I have some issues with my gpu driver and chronflow. (my gpu: radeon 9600)

Using chronflow 0.3 is only possible with catalyst 7.12 to 8.4 (which is the newest), a lower catalyst version will result in an error message saying:

"TexLoader: Can't Set The PixelFormat." and
"ImgTexture Leak: 2"

But unfortunately a lot of my games installed won't run without problems if I update to anything newer than catalyst 7.11.

So I found out that catalyst 7.11 installs openGL 2.0 and that the catalysts 7.12 upwards install openGL 2.1.
Could this be the problem? (Because you once said that having openGL 1.5 is enough, Chronial).
And is there any way I could install openGL 2.1 without upgrading the catalyst driver?

No, this is not the problem - I meant what I said. The Error you are getting is completely unrelated to your OpenGL version.

hi all.

i just downloaded the chronflow dll and installed the microsoft script control in my program file directory (i already have restarted windows) but everytime i start foobar with a chronflow panel i get the error:
"Windows Script Control not installed. ... "

do i have to install this script control component into a specific directory or what should i do.

i'm using windows xp.

thanks.
tommy

in earlier versions of chronflow there was an option tu run it in separate window. i wanted to try new version yesterday but cannot found it anywhere in menu now. console doesnt output anything wrong so it looks like component should work. was the "separate window mode" removed completly for sake of panels or am i missing the right menu item somewhere?

you could make use of panelsui's popup function to do this: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...nd.2Coptions.29

So no way of fixing it huh? Damn that sucks! This plugin is awesome!

You could loan him your computer...
I have to track down the drivers for this video card. it's built-in and the computer cost $250 and came with Lindows :U

i dont use pui thats why im asking. in later versions it was possible to test chronflow with dui/cui. now i dont know the way around

With the last ati driver 8.4 and the modtool of driverheaven it works with my ati x600 it is nice

It is not as fluid as before but it works !!

Can you point me to the links - or in the right direction by any chance?

EDIT: I just updated my drivers Properly and it now works error free! Just seems A LOT slower that's all. What's up with that?
When I click on an album it can take up to a second or so for Chrowflow to react...
Transitions once the album art is moving is very clean though...

First of all i wanted to thank you for this beatiful plugin! It looks really pretty!
And I think its way better than the "original".

But I have also a question: Is it possible that Chronflow only shows me the artworks of songs which are in the active playlist?

So i could remove my at facets my album column with chronflow

I didn't found an option for it but also I do not understand every field maybe it exists
and if not is it planned?

greetz and thanks plissk3n!

On my friend's computer some album art shows up just as white squares, while some show up normally, as do the No Cover images. What info do you need about his computer? any test images needed?
It's very nice (only 2 years old?)
Dual nvidia GeForce 7800
dual core AMD opteron 185
2.6 GHz
2 GB ram


on the other hand, he can run the 3.0 version of Chronflow and it looks really fantastic

First I want to say thanks for all the work on this plugin, it's awesome!!!! I've been having some difficulties and I've read all 18 pages of this thread, a ways back there was mention of a guide or a manual for chronflow. Could someone please post a link for that?

It's in the HA Wiki! http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...(foo_chronflow)

Hi Chronial, thanks for this excellent plugin It's made my foobar so much more beautiful.

I have what seems like a very simple problem, and it seems strange to me that no one else has it, but I've searched the forum and all the pages of this thread and I can't find anything relevant, so... basically, I'm experiencing very severe flickering on the Chronflow panel. It doesn't matter what performance settings I use. I've read the manual, I've tried many combinations of settings, and no matter what it still flickers crazily especially when I move the fb2k window.

What could possibly be causing this? I'm using 0.9.5.1 and PUI 0.14.12. My chipset is an Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML and I have the latest graphics drivers installed. Any help is appreciated!

Your GPU sucks. Sry, but that's the way it is. Intel does have no reason to write good OpenGL drivers for that chip, so they don't.

Sry - I can't help you, and unless you find good drivers, there is no help.

Ha, I guessed it might be something like that. One of the worst things about having a laptop is the sucky integrated chipsets... oh well, thanks for your help anyway and keep up the great work

As an aside, after switching to a Columns UI layout just to test out Chronflow, I can confirm that the flickering is far less severe in CUI... so much so that it is negligible. I'm not sure why this should be the case, but I'm happy enough to live in CUI for now so that I can continue to use this component!

i love this plugin. One thing I can't figure out is how can i set it to ignore my singles folder. eg C:\Music\Singles

This is a great plugin! This is what drove me into using foobar. Not exactly newbie freidnly foobar is

Is there a way for the plugin to try to look at the %band% tag as well as the %album artist% tag when grouping a CD together?
Album Artist is not a standard tag and many software remaps ACC album artist field to Band anyway.
It's a shame the Album Artist is not handled to look at Band too in Foobar

You should be careful with such comments when you are new to a community. Neither the Album Artist nor the Band tag are official standarts.
So none of both are "right". Anyways - foobar can't handle the band tag as album artist, since they have different semantics.
But about your initial question: Of course there is. Just have a look at the foobar titleformat reference and the grouping field in this plugin's settings.

I know I'm very stupid, but the Play command doesn't work for me.
Can somebody help me?