This looks very promising. Too bad about the poor text antialiasing, compared to SCPL

Looks like we can't dynamicaly change font with the $font() function:


it's always normal instead of "artist - title"

I'm going to have to request another group level for this component. It would just be so much awesome. I can understand people's concerns on speed but only one more grouping would be all I (for one) need, so I can have artist>album>tracks. Hopefully you could still (conditionally) set it to zero width, so it wouldn't mean any extra clicking, and it would really save on scrolling, plus it would look great!

If the dev reads this and thinks it's a good idea, I'd be well happy, but if people really think it's unnecessary then I'm not going to get upset...

Cheers,
Tom

What do %el_is_valid% and dummy line mean?

A dummy line is an empty line in the playlist, which only appears when no. items is less than the minimum item no. you enter in the settings menu. They're useful if you want to put artwork as a background to your playlist, you can make sure the whole album art is shown instead of just a narrow band.

%el_is_valid% returns 1 for a normal playlist item, 0 for a dummy line I think.

Hello,
I have 2 questions
How to increase the header (what line ? ) I found for the cover but not for the header
and a silly one,how to select several tracks , the usual way won't work
thank you

EDIT : found the line for header

ELPlaylist 0.2.9.1a
download

I have 403 forbideen access on this link

maybe it's a referer trouble.. try to get it from download page http://foo2k.chottu.net/

thank you just found chottu.net

btw I still can't select severals tracks

That's odd, I can. Are you sure they're not actually being selected but you just can't see them? Try adding some code like:



To the Track List display, it should add a dark blue background. I don't know if the default adds something like that though, I'd have thought it would.

Oh another thing, you might want to check Single Click Action for Items is set to (none), just to be sure it's not that.

EDIT: sorry, confused the syntax

Thank you for your answer,I just tried everything, also with the new single clik action
I do see when it's selected (already in the config) but I can only select track one by one
very annoying,especially to tag new entries in my library
Maybe you can just tell me how do you proceed ?
thank you

That's odd, must be a bug, as for me, left clicking and dragging across different items selects them, as does clicking on one and shift or ctrl clicking on another.

yes, must be a bug,because with single column playlist,it works
well, nevermind
thank you

Tom thanks a lot for the code. I could not select several tracks before I implemented it.

I was wondering how to change the color to something more fitting by the config I use.
I am using the Dark config by CepiPerez.

What code do I need to make the selection area transparent?

Thanks a lot.




pepito

Rightclick on the playlist, choose 'Settings'

In the lower half of the window you see the white field where you can enter the code Tom has given us.
Let me know if this works.

You can choose another colour by replacing the RGB codes in the example I gave. I chose a blue, 0-0-200 as an example, if you want to find RGB codes, open a colour palette eg by clicking the colour button next to 'background colour' in the ELPL settings, choose your colour then remember the 3 numbers on the bottom right, for red, green and blue. Put them where 0,0 and 200 are, but keep the hyphens. I think one is a border colour, so they can be different. You can add another number to give a transparency: -0 would be completely transparent, -255 is opaque. E.G red with 50% transparency and a black opaque border is: $drawrect(0,0,%_width%,%_height%,255-0-0-128,0-0-0-255,)

Make sure your code is ordered correctly too, you'd want the backgrounds to go behind the text, so put the rectangle code before the text code.

I'm wondering what you guys have done to your codes, I just checked and there is a selection rectangle that comes with the default view:



I guess you must have deleted it or something!

Pepito: are you sure your selection rectangle is there for %el_selected% and not %el_focused%?

Cheers,
Tom

Tom

I found the code that will give me the transparent selection that I want.

Here it is:

$if(%_selected%,
$drawrect(0,0,%_width%,%_height%,-0-224-225-255,-0-224-255-255,),)

Thanks a lot for the help Tom.
Could not have done it without you.

Pepito if you copy and paste this code into your playlist settings you will have what you need.

PM me if you need any help. I can send you screenshots if you need them. :-)

thank you, Cepi made a new release 1.7 and the bug is set !!
for colors you can change everything you want in the pui layout,and now Cepi select 3 colours options
But I change directly in the code for the item I want

Could you please add all possible command for single/double/middle click? Just like PanelsUI had.

I think there's a bug with single click for show/hide items when auto collapse is enabled. Clicking a group makes it flicker on and off and you have to click again to see it. Groups don't automatically collapse when you click on a different group either.

confirm

New version is out.. from what i saw..

- $font() command work with $drawtext,$drawtextex (for those who didn't like anti-alias in $drawstring, use this instead, it look just like SCPL)
- Added: glow option in drawstring experimentally.

thanx for the news

I tried v0.2.9.1alpha and there was no antialiasing in $drawtextex

aa in $drawtextex isadded in v0.2.9.3a

edit: I misread. I think there's just the option to use $font() together with $drawtext/$drawtextex to get no aa... or something like that !?

v0.2.9.4.1a 2008/06/02

it's so difficult to understand even with google online translator

Does this component adhere to the titleformatting rules?

v0.2.9.5a 2008/06/06

I still don't see any difference, assuming that (auto?)translation above refers to the $drawstring function without the nooa switch.

v0.3.0a 2008/06/14

by Google, as always :-)

yes, now we can do subgroups! for example, "%artist% ||| %album%", then check %el_group_depth% in the Group Header titleformatting window and draw different styles / paddings for main group and sublevels

look like a great news, i'm going to try this immediatly, thanx to you (& Google!)

I tried the latest: 3.1.0
The preferences page has changed. There are now tabs available
Style | general and behaviour
I like the option that you can set the group headers to zero so you mustn't see them.

I would like to have the option via the context menu to show the groupheaders or not. That would be cool.

This is completely awesome! Props to the dev. I like the import/export function, that will definitely come in handy. Great stuff.

I'm missing the functions updates...
Can someone translate the readme properly? I mean the functions descriptions that comes with the zip, and not only the change history...
Thanks in advance...

now that's what I've been waiting for, now the only thing necessairy is a good panels ui replacement and I'm all set.

new release available !!!

http://foo2k.chottu.net/

that's great, no more white flashes when i resize the panel under Panel Stack Splitter

so happy, thanx for the good work !

Thanks for the heads up, trying it out

I have some ideas but I don't know if they are possible to do. Could color grouping be done in EL playlist (like in columns)?

of course, depends of rules you choose to apply colors (album color depending of the genre for i.e)

Hello.

I have a problem with sorting tracks. I'm listening mostly to single tracks, not whole albums, and I would like to set it this way:
1) firstly - all single tracks in alphabetical order (by %artist% or %album artist%)
2) then all albums also in alphabetical order; there's no difference if it's sorted by artist name or album title.

Can anyone help me sorting this out?

Can someone help to adapt my panels_ui (single columns) config to elplaylist ?
The group display is


and the item display :


And a screen :


Hey hey, i succeed

this is awesome!!!

I have been waiting for something like this for ages... I didn't really want to port my whole config to panels ui (too much work) but I wanted something to avoid having to endlessly scroll through my playlist... and now I have it

thanks soooo much to the developer, if he reads this



and after a bit of tweaking I have been able to properly sort my singles too. I'm happy. I can go to sleep now

v0.4.0b released

bad performances on scrolling playlist with this new version EDIT: same in the previous

for my config it is good (not if i activate pseudo transparent option), but my config is quite good (Core2Duo e6850 + 8800GTS 640Mo + 4Go of RAM...)

much bad when using mousewheel ... refresh display lags

v0.4.1.1b just released !!!

Same problem with v0.4.1.1b for me, big refresh lag when scrolling with mouse wheel

^Same here, but the lag goes away when I disabled the album art

found !

it is due to usage of $drawimage ... no more pb using $imagebs instead

new released v0.4.2.0b, take care, foobar variables like %_width%, %_height%, ...etc don't work anymore with this new release !! you have to use %el_width%, ...etc to make it works

I don't know if you're still interested, but I kind of managed to do that this way:

-In the general tab, in the "group row" box:

$if($strcmp(%el_item_count%,1),0,whatever number)

-And in the "min item num" box:

$if($strcmp(%el_item_count%,1),1,whatever number)

this only suits those playlists where there isn't 2 tracks from the same album... so it's very limited. but I barely use playlists like this, only for thinking of "mixtapes" for friends, so this is good enough for me