Hi everyone. First time here. I'm new to Columns UI and I have a question. Apologies if I'm asking something obvious, but I've been struggling to do something and I can't find a way to do it. I'm using the DarkOne Foobar skin, which uses Columns UI. I've attached a screenshot. What I'd like to do is have a fourth category "Composers" in the filters panel on the left, together with the existing Genre, Artist, and Album categories. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I listen to a lot of classical music and have many files tagged by composer. Thanks!

IIRC, Spider Monkey Panel can get the flags from any menu item. That's fine if you want to query it on startup/on demand, not so good for visual indicators which I'd expect to update in real time regardless of how the settings are changed, Without some sort of associated callbacks provided via the SDK, I'm guessing that isn't possible??

Quote from: snotlicker on 2021-03-31 07:26:52

IIRC, Spider Monkey Panel can get the flags from any menu item. That's fine if you want to query it on startup/on demand, not so good for visual indicators which I'd expect to update in real time regardless of how the settings are changed, Without some sort of associated callbacks provided via the SDK, I'm guessing that isn't possible??

Sorry, I got distracted and have been away. Yes, I am indeed using a button in a Spider Monkey Panel and toggling the image (as well as performing the appropriate command) when the button is clicked. How would I get those menu item flags? In this case, that is for the "View/Playlist view/Show groups" command in columns ui. I imagine that getting the current value can be done once at startup, and a variable or text file can be manipulated as needed from there.

let showingGroups = false;  // used to draw correct button
setInterval(() => {
    const val = IsMainMenuCommandChecked("View/Playlist view/Show Groups");
    if (val != showingGroups) {
        showingGroups = val;
        window.RepaintRect(...fill in your buttons bounds here...);
    }
}, 1000);

Ah yes, MordredKLB, that works a treat with one addition: the check function needed a namespace, so it ended up as

It looks like group titles don't obey the 'Display ellipses in truncated text' setting and always have ellipses enabled.

I can't see changing it to respect that setting being a problem, so I could change it to respect it.

Is it possible to bind a keyboard shortut to move focus to the filter search toolbar (ideally highlighting current filter term ready for being overwritten)

I just downloaded version 1.7.0 beta 1 and I have had a great disappointment since you have not included anything that I had requested.

I mean the message #7683 <https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=28647.7675>

...

Your response to my message was positive for what I had hoped that it could be included:

    Unfortunately, even blank group titles are rendered at the moment, so the behaviour you want isn't currently possible. I'm not sure how much effort it would be to change that, though I'll consider it since it seems like reasonable behaviour.

     Your other option (of course) is to use a third-party playlist view. I don't know if any of them support the behaviour you're looking for, though.

I would greatly appreciate you if you told me if you have contemplated or not include it in the definitive version 1.7.0 since it is absolutely fundamental for me.

Finally, in the message #7685 it made you other requests that I understand that they must be more complicated to do. However, I would only like to know if you consider them for the definitive version 1.7.0 or if you definitely reject them.

Quote from: metamorphoise on 2021-08-03 11:22:25

Is it possible to bind a keyboard shortut to move focus to the filter search toolbar (ideally highlighting current filter term ready for being overwritten)

I don't believe so, but it seems like a fair request to me so I'll think about adding a menu item to make that possible.

Quote from: josemescud on 2021-08-08 11:55:47

I just downloaded version 1.7.0 beta 1 and I have had a great disappointment since you have not included anything that I had requested.

I'm sorry you feel disappointed, but I'm not sure why. I don't see any promises about the contents of that version in the quoted messages. Furthermore, the confirmed contents of any upcoming release is public information as Columns UI is open source.

For your information, I don't routinely keep track of who requested or reported what. But looking back, I can see that the 'In the playlist view, group titles now respect the 'Display ellipses in truncated text' option.' change was made based on your feedback.

Quote from: josemescud on 2021-08-08 11:55:47

I mean the message #7683 <https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=28647.7675>

...

Your response to my message was positive for what I had hoped that it could be included:

    Unfortunately, even blank group titles are rendered at the moment, so the behaviour you want isn't currently possible. I'm not sure how much effort it would be to change that, though I'll consider it since it seems like reasonable behaviour.

     Your other option (of course) is to use a third-party playlist view. I don't know if any of them support the behaviour you're looking for, though.

I would greatly appreciate you if you told me if you have contemplated or not include it in the definitive version 1.7.0 since it is absolutely fundamental for me.

I can't make any promises about any particular feature being in any particular version – this is a free-time project.

I have created an issue on GitHub for that request: https://github.com/reupen/columns_ui/issues/386

Any progress can be followed there.

Quote from: josemescud on 2021-08-08 11:55:47

Finally, in the message #7685 it made you other requests that I understand that they must be more complicated to do. However, I would only like to know if you consider them for the definitive version 1.7.0 or if you definitely reject them.

No, I'm not planning to implement those features.

|$rgb(160,20,0)$repeat(🖤,%love%)$rgb()|

/$rgb(90,0,200)$repeat(⬟,$meta(rating))$rgb()\

|$if( 
$stricmp(%love%,1),
$rgb(160,20,0)🖤$rgb()|,
$rgb()     |
)

/$if(
$meta(rating),
$rgb(90,0,200)$repeat(⬟,$meta(rating))$rgb()\,
$rgb()              \

)

Hi, this is actually my first post and I don't know if I should post it here or as a topic of its own,... Anyway, this is how my Playlist looks like, I think I found it somewhere years! ago and did a little scripting, just now I felt like going back and brush it up a bit.



so between two pipes | is a heart in case the %love% tag field is filled with a number. between a slash and backslash is the rating with some ascii character that I liked.

here is the code in the Clumns Tab under Playlist View:

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|$rgb(160,20,0)$repeat(🖤,%love%)$rgb()|

and

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/$rgb(90,0,200)$repeat(⬟,$meta(rating))$rgb()\

Question:
What I'm looking for is a way to make the distance between pipe |    | and  /         \ uniform, so that no matter what my rating is they are always apart from one another exactly the same distance. The width should obviously be so that between Pipe exactly one Heart fits in and between Slashes exactly 5 Ascii-Stars fit in.

|🖤|  /⬟ ⬟            \ |     |  /⬟ ⬟ ⬟ ⬟ ⬟ \ |     |  /                    \ |🖤|  /⬟ ⬟ ⬟          \

How would I do that?

EDIT:

This is my first one it does what I want:

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|$if( 
$stricmp(%love%,1),
$rgb(160,20,0)🖤$rgb()|,
$rgb()     |
)

The second one, Rating, I'm having trouble with:

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/$if(
$meta(rating),
$rgb(90,0,200)$repeat(⬟,$meta(rating))$rgb()\,
$rgb()              \

)

Because if the rating is 2 the \ character is next to the ascii-Star.

$if(%isplaying%,$transition(%_time_elapsed%,$rgb(2,165,253),$rgb(240,15,179)),

/$if(
$stricmp($meta(rating),1),
$rgb(0,0,255)★$rgb(93,93,93)☆☆☆☆$rgb()\,
)

$if(
$stricmp($meta(rating),2),
$rgb(0,0,255)★★$rgb(93,93,93)☆☆☆$rgb()\,
)

$if(
$stricmp($meta(rating),3),
$rgb(0,0,255)★★★$rgb(93,93,93)☆☆$rgb()\,
)

$if(
$stricmp($meta(rating),4),
$rgb(0,0,255)★★★★$rgb(93,93,93)☆$rgb()\,
)

$if(
$stricmp($meta(rating),5),
$rgb(0,0,255)★★★★★$rgb(93,93,93)$rgb()\,
)

$if(
$stricmp($meta(rating),()),
$rgb(100,100,100)☆☆☆☆☆$rgb()\,
)
)

Quote from: Phillight on 2021-08-08 17:51:42

It occurs to me that you could do the following:

Example: $meta(rating) = 2

/$rgb(90,0,200)$repeat(⬟,$meta(rating))
$rgb(15,15,15)$repeat(⬟,5-$meta(rating))

The subtraction operation is not now as it is written exactly. If you need it, I can look for it.
The trick is to paint 3 times the character ⬟ but with the color of background of the playlist (in the example $rgb(15,15,15)) which makes it invisible.

I just now got what you were saying and looked up the proper function, so your suggestion, with the better looking stars and my new Idea of replacing %isplaying%...:

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$if(
%isplaying%,
$transition(%_time_elapsed%,$rgb(2,165,253),$rgb(240,15,179)),
$rgb(90,0,255)$repeat(★,$meta(rating))$rgb(93,93,93)$repeat(☆,$sub(5,$meta(rating)))$rgb()
)