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Reply #3025 –
Quote from: ak47mega on
metadb_handle leaks: 2 objects.
What does it mean, and how could I remove this message ?


change 0.7(track info)  work fine

You're right, it is Trackinfo'fault. I have the 0.8 version, and with a previous version, I cannot see the info panel. How can I solve that ?

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Reply #3026 –
Thanks for the update musicmusic.  My columns_ui setup never looked better and the layout improvements make it so much simpler to use!


Please consider the following feature request:  enable parsing of title formatting in the custom title for panels.

The immediate benefit is to utilize the white space that extends across a horizontal title to display additional useful information.  Some may even use it for a simple track_info.

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Reply #3027 –
i think i've found a bug with columns_ui. ok here's the deal. i have multiple splitters in my config. here's a picture.

now, if i Lock all the panels and splitters, watch what happens to the album art.



as you can see, the panel goes into the status bar but the status bar overlaps it. not a huge bug but still a bug.

also, what does "lock" do anyways?

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Reply #3028 –
Quote from: Squeller on
Now that we can have multiple individual track info panels and the layouts can get very complex:
I'm feeling bad. May someone agree please please please, that layout designing for columns ui has became a rather intellectual task?!

Like this?
Quote from: My name is Mud on
Ya know, after spending the past few weeks trying to get my copy of v.9.0 w/foo_columns to config in a way I like (I've messed with it on my own, I've lifted different strings posted here, etc. etc. etc.), I've decided that my v0.8.3 is just fine.  It looks the way I want it to; it works the way I want it to; I can rebuild it in a few minutes, if it bugs up (a rare occurance).  Besides, I'm kinda burned out on chasing down the latest version of whatever was just ported over.

When v.9.-- is better established, I'll give it another try.  Until then, I'm good with what I got...

One of the reasons I'm backing off (for now) of v9.- is what Squeller said.  I don't think of myself as being particularly, shall we say, 'figure-it-out' challenged (I think I had as much fun config'ing my v0.8.3 as actually using it...), but after trying a LOT of different v0.9 setups, I'm just frustrated enough to pack it in.

And, for whatever it's worth, I still like the sidebar...
voted 'Most likely to veer your thread' three straight years!

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Reply #3030 –
i see

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Reply #3031 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: kalmark on
musicmusic, using the latest beta (0.1.3b4) I can't really use the context menu options "Move up" and "Move down" in the layout editor - the results are quite unpredictable.
Thanks again for the report. It should be fixed in v5 I just uploaded. But give it a good trashing to make sure
Seems to work fine now, thanks!
Life is Real...
(But not in audio :) )

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Reply #3032 –
0.1.3 b5 seems to have pretty high CPU usage.

It had been awhile since I have updated it. The version before this one I was using pav17 I think. I also added albumart and trackinfo but they are not the culprits as I removed them to see if usage dropped. I also removed the visualisation and cpu usage was still high hovering around 20% on my P4 3ghz.

Default UI has no such problems and I am pretty sure none of the previous versions of Columns UI I tried had such a problem either.

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Reply #3033 –
Yeah, it does seem to use much CPU when redrawing.

Also it doesn't appear as though the panels are fluid like they used to be? They just stick where they are and the rest gets grey when I resize or maximize.

I would really, really, really appreciate the incorporation of the must-have feature to move a layout tree within the entire layout, that is, to drag them around like I please.

metadb_handle leaks: 16 objects?

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Reply #3034 –
Quote from: Storm on
metadb_handle leaks: 16 objects?

You win. I've had only 4 IIRC.

Quote from: My name is Mud on
One of the reasons I'm backing off (for now) of v9.- is what Squeller said.  I don't think of myself as being particularly, shall we say, 'figure-it-out' challenged (I think I had as much fun config'ing my v0.8.3 as actually using it...), but after trying a LOT of different v0.9 setups, I'm just frustrated enough to pack it in.

I like the new concept, I understood it now, we're flexible as we can be. The only problem is to implement my ideas. It's too much effort for a simple adding of a panel sometimes.. Freely dragging within the tree structure would help.

@musicmusic, you asked for a crash log. I cannot use the pc this weekend and its working at the pc I'm now on. If fb2k still crashes with the latest beta at the other pc, I'll send a crash log next week.

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Reply #3035 –
i know this is probably easy to fix, but what in my code is making each song not playing have a question mark at the end of it.

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Reply #3036 –
If you would show your code, that would be much easier a problem to solve...

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Reply #3037 –
GOOD point, hmm, maybe its from the title code in columns *shrugs*

Code: [Select]
$if(%_isplaying%,> )
// Various Artist
$if(%_is_various%,%_artistv%|%_artistvs%%artist% '-' )
// Title
$if(%title%,
$if(%_isplaying%,$replace(%_titlep%|%_titles%%_c_title%,
'(',%_bonus%'(',')',')'%_tplay%),
$replace(%_title%|%_titles%%_c_title%,
'(',%_bonus%'(',')',')'%_title%|%_titles%)),
%_file%%_filename%)
// Bonustrack
$if(%bonustrack%,%_bonus%*Bonus Track*)
%_titlep%|%_titles%%_now_play%


it only started to do that after i tried using album list though, and i didnt know what i was doing.

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Reply #3038 –
about availability of global vars to other components:
Currently, UI-columns global-vars are executed in a trackspecific-context. When another component does access the global vars, then in which context is this done? currently playing track? Or is the entire global-string accessed and the other component can use it for whatever purpose it wants to? Some clarifications on how this new feature works would be really appreciated.

Also, when this feature was proposed about a year ago, one of its main purposes was color-themes. So, that one could set a global color-scheme in a central place, and all other components could then automatically access it. However, AFAIK there currently is no way for a formatting string to set the exposed playlist backgroud color. It would be great if there would be a way directly in the columns ui global-vars to change this color.

- Lyx

P.S.: Personal opinion: imho color-picks via mouse should be axed completely and all colors be set via string-vars only. Most users use premade formatting strings or create their own ones anyways. I understand that the color-config in the prefs is meant to make it easy for unskilled users to make "simple" playlist-displays without any tagz-knowledge - however, this is a solution to a non-existing problem... there is no "market" for it. I have yet to see anyone who is running columns-ui with only %artist%, %title% in the columns and no style-code or global-vars at all.
I am arrogant and I can afford it because I deliver.

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Reply #3039 –
I am. Just set the colors to what I want and then modify the special code for the now_playing item in the global page... But what are you talking about exactly? The color picker is good for getting color codes to go, without having to switch to Photoshop or whatever to copy a hex code. In what way is it unnecessary?

Edit: Oh sorry, I misunderstood your request. I think maybe the simple colorpicks for playlist view and switcher could be removed, if there was a very simple introduction to the style tags in clear view so that newbies don't have to look in the documentation to set simple colors.

Edit2: I have one more request in addition to being able to drag items/subtrees within the layout tree. I'd like an ability to duplicate a preset in order to just modify it slightly under another name.
 

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Reply #3040 –
Is it possible to use fields like %album%, %artist%, etc. in the playlist names at the playlist switcher? In another words: is there a way to guess the playlist name from it's content? I'm to lazy to rename my playlists manually, at at 5 opened playlits it's already quite a mess.

But using tag fields in playlist names will probably cause problems when playlist contains multiple albums/artists, not?

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Reply #3041 –
Quote from: molnart on
Is it possible to use fields like %album%, %artist%, etc. in the playlist names at the playlist switcher? In another words: is there a way to guess the playlist name from it's content? I'm to lazy to rename my playlists manually, at at 5 opened playlits it's already quite a mess.

But using tag fields in playlist names will probably cause problems when playlist contains multiple albums/artists, not?

To do that i use the last build of playlist tree. by putting %_name% in library panel the playlist created has the name of the folder selected. not sure it is what you want

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Reply #3042 –
You could use something that would pick the most frequent artist/album to display as the playlist name, I guess. But I do not think this is possible right now.

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Reply #3043 –
Can you center text in playlist switcher?  I have tried $char(1)C and enclosing the text with two $tab() without success.

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Reply #3045 –
Quote from: Stuart60611 on
Can you center text in playlist switcher?  I have tried $char(1)C and enclosing the text with two $tab() without success.
I had a play around and came up with this...
Code: [Select]
$puts(width,30)
$puts(title,%title%)
$puts(padding,$len($get(title)))
$puts(repeat,$repeat(' ',$div($sub($get(width),$get(padding)),2)))
$get(repeat)
$get(title)
$get(repeat)

OK, so it isn't really "centred" but the effect is there...
Works best with fixed-width fonts and it won't work if you change the size of the playlist switcher. Must have $puts(width,?) equal to the width of the panel.
This TAGZ business isn't so scary after all

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Reply #3046 –
$char(9) works for me in playlist switcher title formatting.

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Reply #3047 –
Quote from: Anas on
$char(9) works for me in playlist switcher title formatting.

Isn't $char(9) a tab? How do you get it to centre?
Otherwise I feel a bit silly for doing that

Edit: On a side note...
What would be the fastest way to interprete that code? I did $puts(repeat,[...]) so that it would only have to do the calculation once so I could call it again. I suppose thats quicker right? But is doing something like $puts(title,%title%) actually slowing down the interpretation of the code? (Yes, I know it probably makes next to no difference but I think it's useful to know if I do anything "large scale")

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Reply #3048 –
Quote from: molnart on
Is it possible to use fields like %album%, %artist%, etc. in the playlist names at the playlist switcher? In another words: is there a way to guess the playlist name from it's content? I'm to lazy to rename my playlists manually, at at 5 opened playlits it's already quite a mess.

But using tag fields in playlist names will probably cause problems when playlist contains multiple albums/artists, not?
If you create your playlists by drag and drop into the Playlist Swicher, you can achieve this to some extent. Have a look at Playlist Switcher -> Drag and Drop -> Compare following string and use output for name if identical for all files dropped

Exerpt from my setup:
Code: [Select]
%artist%[ - ''%album%'']\
%artist%\
VA - ''%album%''\
%_directoryname%\

Works pretty well for my usage.

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Reply #3049 –
The layout system desperates me:

I've got something like this:
http://eolindel.free.fr/images/layout.gif

I want to make foo uie explorer available in a toggle area. But when I click on the extreme left of my screen (wherever)  it hides the splitter containing the columns playlist and explorer.

It occures wether toggle left area is checked or not for the explorer panel.

Nothing is checked in any panel or splitter.

But the most amazing thing is that I made something exactly like I wanted which worked an hour ago, but now impossible to make it work in any way..

edit: It's likely to be a bug: I'm trying to restart from the beginning and now it works.

And by the way, as a request: be able to set a default size to a splitter or even each panel. because if we change anything, clicking on apply splits regularly the screen with each splitter. Whereas my splitters haven't the same size.