I am a newbie here but I see that you all do great work with this great player and so I started customizing my own foobar. I have create my own config and I like it but I have a big problem with custom buttons. Whenever I try to change the default set of buttons the ones I put disappear. Every single one of them!!! I don't know what happens. The weirder thing is that the buttons are there, I mean that when I click with my mouse in the place where the buttons should be they work ( pause, stop etc). I am using the latest version of foobar and columns ui among other plugins. Any help please ?

So the button functions are working, but the images aren't being displayed?

I'm assuming your using panels UI?

-If you are using the $button() function, make sure the image paths you have specified are correct, mainly the exact syntax (case-sensitive, and correct file type, .png/.jpg etc). Also specify a path for the hover image (to be displayed on mouse over).

-If you are using a button panel, then right click>customize>tools>load from file..>browse for your .fcb, and select it. I'm guessing you've done that part already? Make sure that the height of the panel is large enough for the images to be displayed. (Any button image taller than the height of the panel wont be displayed, so the panel must at least be as tall as the tallest button)

Hope that helped
-mac

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I am not using the panels ui but columns...This is my config. But when I try to add some custom buttons from a .fcb file they disappear... . What else could this be?

So you are talking about the buttons panel at the botom left? They are the default buttons, yes, but to apply any custom buttons you might have, I would have thought that the second point I made still stands.



...and make sure the panel is big enough. I don't use Columns UI myself, but I would have thought that should do the job. If not you might have to go to preferences>columnsUI>layout>select the buttons panel on the layout tree>customize>tools>add from file...>etc...

-mac

Thanasis159 you are using foo_ui_columns together with the playlist view of foo_ui_panels... (in former times known as foo_uie_single_column_playlist)
It seems that you lack the libraries zlib and libpng, which are needed to display custom buttons.

edit:
You can download the needed libraries here.
Just unzip them to your foobar directory.

edit²:
I changed the nick to the right one, to prevent further misunderstanding

neomcasty I absolutely thank you!!!! You are my hero!!!! I just downloaded those libraries, put them in the foobar directory, loaded the customs buttons from the .fcb file and there they are!!!! Thank you!!!!
P.S. : Could you please explain this :"...you are using foo_ui_columns together with the playlist view of foo_ui_panels... (in former times known as foo_uie_single_column_playlist)..."? I am using both foo_ui_columns.dll and foo_uie_single_column_playlist.dll .

What he means is that your interface is columns UI. Check by going to Preferences -> Display. What you've done is used Column UI in conjuction with the Single Column Playlist portion of Panel UI.

And this means that I should remove the single column playlist?

Um no. You just right click the buttons toolbar and load your fcb again. Does it disappear everytime you restart foobar?

No... They are ok. So I guess that I am alright. Thank you all for your answers. You helped me a lot!!!

No, I am using foo_ui_panels as my active user interface, which is much more than just the playlist view of SCPL (foo_uie_single_column_playlist) - it's a complete UI. You have to have columns UI installed to use panels UI, I believe, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the active UI (as it is not with me).

What I was saying is that panels UI has two ways of adding custom buttons; using the $button() (or $button2() ) function, or placing an actual (default) buttons panel in your layout using $panel() and importing .fcb files to it. This buttons panel is identical to the one used in columns UI (pictured above), so the process of importing .fcb files is the same, and the second point I made still stands for what Thanasis159 was trying to do.

The reason I was ranting about Panels UI in the first place, is because the original (Thanasis159's) post was actually a new thread in the 3rd party plug-ins forum, where the active UI was not specified, but it got integrated into this thread by the mods....




...and now, it has disappeared altogether

My post meant to be adressed to Thanasis159. I wrote the wrong nickname.
Sorry, for the misunderstanding...

Actually, that is not what has happened. Thanasis159 made a total of four posts about his problem, three of them in new threads and one in here. The first of the separate threads was removed by a moderator who noticed that Thanasis159 had posted the same problem in here. The moderator also notified Thanasis159 about this. Later on, Thanasis159 asked another moderator to delete his post in this thread. Meanwhile, the other two threads were detected as duplicates by the first moderator and were removed as well.

It was a big mess... But now I think that everything is ok!!! Sorry for all the inconvenience, thanks for the patience and mostly thank you for the answer to my problem. It won't happen again I promise...

Ah, I see what you mean, glad it's been resolved.