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Thank you very, very much, musicmusic  You've just saved my life (and a lot of time ) But I've got one more little request (I promise it is the last time... well, for next 10 minutes at least ) - Which system colors do you use as your default values for "Text", "Selected text", "Background", "Selected background", "Selected background (no focus)".Certainly you've got it declared somewhere in your code, so one small Ctrl-C -> Ctrl-V would cause big smile on my face [{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

COLORREF get_default_colour(colours::t_colours index)
{
    switch (index)
    {
    case colours::COLOUR_TEXT:
  return GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOWTEXT);
    case colours::COLOUR_SELECTED_TEXT:
  return GetSysColor(COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT);
    case colours::COLOUR_BACK:
  return GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOW);
    case colours::COLOUR_SELECTED_BACK:
  return GetSysColor(COLOR_HIGHLIGHT);
    case colours::COLOUR_FRAME:
  return GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOWFRAME);
    case colours::COLOUR_SELECTED_BACK_NO_FOCUS:
  return GetSysColor(COLOR_BTNFACE);
    case colours::COLOUR_SELECTED_TEXT_NO_FOCUS:
  return GetSysColor(COLOR_BTNTEXT);
    default:
  return 0x0000FF;
    }
}

because it looks great on every XP style (and on "98" style, too).

And I've got one small problem. When I use System Colors in my app, and change them for example in Desktop -> Display -> Properties -> ..., they won't change (in my app) until I restart my application. Should I process any message or something to notice that XP Theme has changed?...

BTW, I'm really looking forward for new beta of Columns UI. I don't know if it was good idea to write the changelog before releasing plugin - now I check your site every 5 minutes to see if there is new version available
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Feature Requests:
* More toolbar properties. Ability to set alignment, width and height of toolbars. Both percent and pixel would be nice for sizing. Dynamic sizing is sometimes a pain atm.
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Ability to add a spacer as a toolbar object would do just that (well not for the height but it would still be great) and should be easy to implement. And it would allow people to make their "intersections" between panels wider (I know someone requested that) by adding a spacer between every panel and then resizing it..
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I've seen in several of these screenshots that some of you have themes in which the color of each different artist is different.

I would like something similar for my theme. I've downloaded some of your themes with this functionality but I cannot figure it out; I'm rather... new... at scripting.

I would just like it so Artist One is color A, and Artist Two is color B. Artist 3: color A, Artist 4: color B. Artist 5: color A... etc.

Could anyone explain how to do this for a newbie?

PS: I have searched throughout the board but to no avail given the tremendous amount of posts. Could someone please point in the correct direction? Thanks a lot.
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The position of my .png buttons keeps moving vertically. One (reproducible) thing that causes this is changing the desktop background.

normal position:

after changing background:


XP pro sp2, no 3rd party visual styles (using stock "windows classic" theme)
Columns UI 0.1.3 pre-alpha 17v6

I don't know if anyone's reported this yet, but the latest foo_ui_columns with foobar 0.9 doesn't work on Windows Vista Build 5342.  When I select Columns UI in the "New Interface found" box, I get an "Unhandled Exception : Bad allocation" error.

I'll understand, of course, if this doesn't get fixed for some time

Just a small feature request for the Layout page.
Is it possible add something to distinguish how an object in the list is oriented.
Perhaps something like, adding a v or h to the end of what is already there...
ie. Splitter-h or Album Art-v
Instead of clicking on the object to find out which way it is oriented.

musicmusic could you add a "settings..." shortcut to the context menu of the album list panel that opens its preferences page?

Hi, is it still possible to sort only the selected items in the playlist by clicking the column header?  I can't find this option in any of the settings page for ColumnsUI.  (I also searching unsuccessfllly in this thread and the wiki.

// Various Artist
$if(%albumartist%,%artist% '-' )
// Is Playing
$if(%_isplaying%,
$if(%title%,%_tplay%|%_titles%%title%,%_file%%_filename%),
// Normal
$if(%_is_first%,
$if(%title%,%_tplay%|%_titles%%title%,%_file%%_filename%),
$if(%title%,%_title%|%_titles%%title%,%_file%%_filename%))
// Bonus Track
$if(%bonustrack%, %_bonus%*Bonus Track*))
// Now-playing
$if(%_isplaying%,'  '$transition('↖↘↖↘↖↘↖↘↖↘',%_tplay%|%_tselect%,%_playing%|%_selected%))

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• axed sidebar
• added toggle area...
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Does enabling Make date info available, also give access to Julian Date?
I have unsuccessfully tried e.g. %_system_julian_date%.

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• axed sidebar
• added toggle area...
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This sounds very promising and I'm all for progression, but does it mean that I'll be able to exactly replicate the current sidebars behavior? You see, I'm rather attached to it...

Playlist name generation
I like the way playlist names can be generated upon drag and drop. Do you think you could make it possible to send files through this processing, also when using "send to new playlist" in Album List Panel? And how about adding a "regenerate playlist name" to the context menu, when a playlist is right clicked?

Sidebar question: If I put two panels into sidebar and hide both titles of them, I'm no more able to add/remove panels to the sidebar. There's no way to get the context menu for this. Is that correct? So I have to reset sidebar in the columns ui preferences and rebuild it.

Correct? Or is there an easier way?