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Reply #2925 –
Quote from: Lyx on
I edited my previous post, check it again - his FCS may be incompatible with fb2k 0.9final.

Ah well.  All I wanted was that line on the bottom of my albums and now I have it.  I'm one of those guys that just steals code from everybody and puts it into one big pile of letters to make the final product look pretty. 

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Reply #2926 –
@musicmusic:

Proposal regarding inline-metadata-editing:
This feature can become quite powerful. It however currently has some limitations regarding feasability of implementation. With some playlist-display layouts, it is feasible to display more than one kind of information in a single-cell. But only one fieldname can be defined for the cell regarding inline-metadata editing.

The problem also wont go away in the future, because at least when someday contentgroups get implemented, the interest in hybrid-displays will increase dramatically. But for hybridmode-displays, merging multiple kinds of metadata into one field is a must.

My proposal - if technically reasonable - would be the following:
Change the current behaviour so that when clicking a cell two times, a small dialogbox pops up allowing to edit metadata. Then, in the column-preferences allow to enter more than one fieldname for metadata-editing - by seperating them with a semicolon. Then, when clicking a cell two times, the dialogbox should be able to allow editing of multiple fields, like this:

ARTIST:
[editable fieldcontents here]
ALBUM:
[editable fieldcontents here]

This could make in-playlist metadata editing quite powerful, even in hybridmode-displays.

- Lyx
I am arrogant and I can afford it because I deliver.
 

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Reply #2927 –
Quote from: Lyx on
Quote from: mazy on

@lyx - would you support this idea?

I proposed just that about a year ago. Musicmusic's reply was that something like this should be a seperate plugin and that he already has his hands full with maintaining columns ui. My reply was that from a pragmatic POV, it is unprobable that such a seperate plugin will happen in the near future, and therefore it should be intergrated into columns ui, even if its not the "proper solution". Not much happened from there on.
Actually, Im pretty sure the last thing I said in regard to making the globals available to other components was "I'll do it".  Since I am a man of my word, I'll add it to beta 1.

Quote from: Chaser on
Quote from: Chaser on

Hi musicmusic,

my config: http://www.Sturmvögel.de/Chaser2.fcs

Is it possible to autohide the menu (so it hides to the top in my config)?



Have you seen this?
FCS files don't contain the layout. So I don't know exactly what you are asking. But yes it should be possible. But generally auto-hide/hiding panels should work better in beta 1.

Quote from: Chaser on
Apart from that: Will there be a function to assign shorcuts to hiding splitters?
In beta 2, there hopefully will be. There is presets in beta 1 but those only define completely different/independent layouts and so isn't suitable for this.
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Reply #2928 –
Megadeus: Thanks for civiliy answering my question.

Lyx: The question was not about an FCS.  It was a general question about Columns UI.  Thank you so much for proving you are incapable of decent human interaction.  So good to know civility is alive an well here.

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Reply #2929 –
Quote from: BlueDev on
Lyx: The question was not about an FCS.  It was a general question about Columns UI.  So you can take you asshole attitude and go screw yourself with it.

You mean, you failed to read the UI Columns manual AND the manual of the FCS (which BOTH answered your question), and when the author of the FCS which you just downloaded tells you to RTFM, you call him an asshole? Please go away and stop abusing peoples time luser, thank you.

- Lyx
I am arrogant and I can afford it because I deliver.

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Reply #2930 –
Allright, now tune down everyone and lets get on with this thread please. 

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Reply #2931 –
Oy, I just realized that there was an arguement going on about my fcs.

A: SROL, or anyone else, you should have just PM'd me. That's fine with me, and also probably good nettiquete in relation to the people you asked here. After all, they don't know what crazy stuff I've been doing...

B: Yeah, my fcs is pretty much still all .8.3 stuff. I haven't had time to sit down to read the new docs, so I haven't been able to update it. It still uses |colors| and all that old junk, and could use a general clean-up of the code. However, it seems to work perfectly fine to me. It isn't incompatible, just old.

C: To settle the question, I still use TRACKNUMBER = TN/TT. I realize that foobar now seems to prefer the totaltracks tag, but f me if I'm going to retag everything. I also do totally non-standard stuff like a custom tag called "CJW" which I use on some of my music to segregate it into a different album list panel (or at least I did when I still had uie_tabs for multiple panels). Why? Because I want all of my classical on the seperate tab, but only some of my jazz and world genres.

I mentioned in my post that it had a ton of customized stuff for my tag patterns, and I wasn't kidding.

It's good that foobar has a set of styles for tags and other stuff that it uses by default, but it's also good that a user can tell it to do something different. (Though it would a help if  there wan't a new default system every version increment.  ) The day that foobar becomes a perscriptivist system that only lets you do things one way will be the day I stop using it.

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Reply #2932 –
Quote from: upNorth on
Quote from: sahara_lai on
Sorry I got a stupid question here. What should I do if I want the colour of the texts of a song (in the playlist) to change whenever it's playing? I tried for quite a while but didn't work out....
In essence it's done like this:
Code: [Select]
$if(%_isplaying%,color_when_playing,normal_color)

And here's an example:
Code: [Select]
$if(%_isplaying%,$rgb(255,0,0),$rgb(0,255,0))%artist%

Thanks a bunch man! 

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Reply #2933 –
Hello all, I got another question to ask  . Under the tab "Global", there's a tab "Variables", what is the use of it, and how to use it? 

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Reply #2934 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Actually, Im pretty sure the last thing I said in regard to making the globals available to other components was "I'll do it".  Since I am a man of my word, I'll add it to beta 1.

hurray! you're my hero . ot: now only if i could get to %playlist_name% outside from playlist, like in track info panel ...

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Reply #2935 –
Quote from: sahara_lai on
Hello all, I got another question to ask  :huh: . Under the tab "Global", there's a tab "Variables", what is the use of it, and how to use it?  :unsure:

Thats far too complex to fully explain here - a better idea would be to check the Columns UI manual.

The short version is: global-vars are *trackspecific* and its exported vars can be used in all columns. Column-vars are *column-specific* and only apply to that single column.

Quote from: mazy on
Quote from: musicmusic on
Actually, Im pretty sure the last thing I said in regard to making the globals available to other components was "I'll do it". :rolleyes: Since I am a man of my word, I'll add it to beta 1.

hurray! you're my hero :D. ot: now only if i could get to %playlist_name% outside from playlist, like in track info panel ...

Maybe just EXPORT it in from the global-vars? BTW, if i understood musicmusic correctly, then all the panels etc. will have to be updated so that the exported global-vars are available in their formatting.
I am arrogant and I can afford it because I deliver.

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Reply #2936 –
OK, I'll check the manual    Thank you very much for answering 

moderation: Removed unnecessary full quote of previous post.

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Reply #2937 –
Thank musicmusic for this wonderful plugin! 

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Reply #2938 –
Quote from: Klyith on
A: SROL, or anyone else, you should have just PM'd me. That's fine with me, and also probably good nettiquete in relation to the people you asked here. After all, they don't know what crazy stuff I've been doing...

Heh, normally I would have just sent a Pm.  Except, for some reason, I couldn't get an underline from ANYbodys fcs code to work.  I only used yours as an example because it was the one I pulled up first to steal the code  That and I couldn't find a good screenshot displaying a playlist that had single tracks as well as albums showing the underline.

But that was the only thing that didn't move over from .8.3 to .9 from what I can see

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Reply #2939 –
Hi, I hate to ask really dumb questions here, but that is not going to stop me, unfortunately...

In 0.9, using the latest pre-alpha, my columns UI (unmodified) shows no track numbers column, no option to add it, and only about half the tabs on the preferences page compared to what I see in the wiki.

Am I doing something wrong? I just installed 0.9 and the various components as I always did with 0.8.3...

EDIT: and the configure button is greyed out in the layout tab, so I'm really quite stuck.

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Reply #2940 –
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but why doesn't the export settings feature work with the layout? It sure would save a bunch of time and effort if exporting included that info, since upgrading the software = redoing the whole layout. Is this something that's being planned on implementing?

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Reply #2941 –
Quote from: pokepoke on
Hi, I hate to ask really dumb questions here, but that is not going to stop me, unfortunately...

In 0.9, using the latest pre-alpha, my columns UI (unmodified) shows no track numbers column, no option to add it, and only about half the tabs on the preferences page compared to what I see in the wiki.

Am I doing something wrong? I just installed 0.9 and the various components as I always did with 0.8.3...

EDIT: and the configure button is greyed out in the layout tab, so I'm really quite stuck.


You don't configure the layout from the configuration button; rather, the button is for configurating individual things in your layout. Right click on the base entry in the layout window to start modifying the layout.

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Reply #2942 –
I'm on a 1600x1200 display.
Every time I want to resize a panel I find it a bit difficult to make the resize arrows appear: is it possible to make them appear on a wider area beside the separator I want to drag?

Thanks

Is it also possible to drag files from a playlist to another without using additional keys (only with the mouse)?

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Reply #2943 –
Guys if I want to show the TOTAL play time of all the songs in a playlist at the status bar what should I do? 

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Reply #2944 –
Quote from: sahara_lai on
Guys if I want to show the TOTAL play time of all the songs in a playlist at the status bar what should I do?  :huh:

select them all?
I am arrogant and I can afford it because I deliver.

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Reply #2945 –
Quote from: fabiospark on
Is it also possible to drag files from a playlist to another without using additional keys (only with the mouse)?

Seems easy enough to me, but maybe I missed something in your question.. anyway what I would do is: Left click to select files, then right click and either use "Edit>Cut/Copy tracks" then paste in other playlist, or "Edit Other>Add to playlist>?" or even "Utils>Send to playlist..." Now if you don't have any of these, try to get foo_utils from foosion's page (I'm not sure which menu buttons are part of it).

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Reply #2946 –
Quote from: Seldaek on
Quote from: fabiospark on

Is it also possible to drag files from a playlist to another without using additional keys (only with the mouse)?

Seems easy enough to me, but maybe I missed something in your question.. anyway what I would do is: Left click to select files, then right click and either use "Edit>Cut/Copy tracks" then paste in other playlist, or "Edit Other>Add to playlist>?" or even "Utils>Send to playlist..." Now if you don't have any of these, try to get foo_utils from foosion's page (I'm not sure which menu buttons are part of it).

What you're missing (because I didn't mention it) is that I would do it using the mouse pad of a remote control in a remote room and some meters away from the TV screen so I can't hope to read the menu items.

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Reply #2947 –
Well you can access all these menu items through keyboards shortcuts under [context], and then you can call these keyboards shortcuts with the remote using Girder or anything else that you may have. Note that Girder allow you to script a key so you could do select all + send to playlist in one button and even switch to the new playlist maybe and start playing it.. I don't know what you need exactly.

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Reply #2948 –
Quote from: Seldaek on
Well you can access all these menu items through keyboards shortcuts under [context], and then you can call these keyboards shortcuts with the remote using Girder or anything else that you may have. Note that Girder allow you to script a key so you could do select all + send to playlist in one button and even switch to the new playlist maybe and start playing it.. I don't know what you need exactly.

I would just need a drag and drop with mouse only.

I'm using Girder with my remote wonder RF remote and I'm well aware of the power this setup gives me in controlling FB from around the house. I can even tag my files while listening to them... but this is not the subject of my request.
I have many keyboard shorcuts mapped to the remote buttons - I even have a couple of home made shift keys - but the wife feel more at home with the good old mouse behaviour as in other windows apps where after selecting something you can drag it everywhere just holding down the left button.
Just that.
And now, if you don't mind, let's turn our attention to something else.

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Reply #2949 –
Quote from: fabiospark on
Is it also possible to drag files from a playlist to another without using additional keys (only with the mouse)?
Try drag and drop with the right mouse button. A you'll see, the difference from using the left with a modifier, is that a small menu will pop up when you release, asking you what to do.