Bug:

In RC1 the custom active item frame is not drawn.
I stepped back to beta 1 and everything is ok.

I don't remember, but wasn't there a plan to add global variables available for other components? That would be nice, too.

@all:

Can somebody point me to the exact setting which changes the behaviour of the active item frame (in XP)?

@musicmusic 1:

I think there is a bug concerning the active item frame in 0.2 RC 1 on win xp sp2

- start foobar
- select another playlist
-> there is _no_ selected item visible
- minimize the window
- maximize window
-> the active frame is now displayed

I don't know if this is intended...

@musicmusic 2:

the current behavior:
- change to a playlist were you haven't been before in the current session
-> one item shows the active item frame but otherwise looks "normal"

the behavior from several versions ago:
- change to a playlist were you haven't been before in the current session
-> one item in the playlist was displayed as it was "fully selected"

(I hope you understand what I'm talking about. If not, then I can make some screenshots)

@musicmusic 3:

Some time ago I played around with several music players on Linux and there is one thing (actually the only thing  ) I really miss now in columns ui: if you double click on a entry in the playlist selection list in Rythmbox, then it will stop the current song and start playing in the playlist you clicked on. This doesn't sound like it is that a useful feature, but if you get used to it...

@musicmusic 4:

In the globals setting of the playlist view:
Can a global variable only be set once (using $set_global)?

I have a problem were want to a variable to "a" at the beginning of the script. Depending on some tags in a file, the value of this variable should then be changed in some cases to "b" or "c". This doesn't work for me, as it seems I can set a global variable only once and then this value is fixed and can't be changed lateron...

It's not a bug it respects the system wide setting. See what happens in Windows Explorer for example. The actual option is in display properties somewhere (XP) or ease of access center (Vista). It is shown when you use the keyboard (e.g. press Crtl). Sorry I didn't mention it in the changelog I'll add it.

hey music music any updates on the new playlist with grouping... have been playing with it but want something more configurable to play with if... please...

But...
if i want a blue border around my selected song i have to change the systemwide setting to "blue frame"?
If i only want to have a blue border in foobar and not in my whole system i am lost?
And the frame is intended to appear only if using the keyboard?
But i had it all the time and i dont want it different.

Quote from: Ben C on 2007-08-20 22:28:38

I couldn't find a foo_uie_albumlist thread so I'm adding this bug report here.

I just noticed that the last two tracks of the last CD of my multi-CD albums are not added to the playlist when I highlight the album and press Enter. The tracks definitely exist, though; they can be played by highlighting the track itself and pressing enter.

The problem exists with 0.2.2 and 0.2.3 beta.

Maybe metadata or media library problem.

Not sure what you mean, but I'm pretty sure they are tagged (Flac) correctly. I have track number, total tracks, disc number, and total discs set for the affected songs.

The dropped tracks are only from the last disc, in the case of multi-CD albums like Queen where there are more than two discs. However, this problem occurs invariably with ALL my multi-CD albums.

$ifgreater(%TOTALDISCS%,1,%DISCNUMBER%,)

I don't know if it's too early for feature requests and such for your grouped playlist view, but in case it is not:
I'd love to group by discnumber in case of multidisc albums.
So my grouping code is as follows:

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$ifgreater(%TOTALDISCS%,1,%DISCNUMBER%,)

This basically works fine, but it creates an "untitled" grouping line for every single disc album.

Thanks a lot for your effort musicmusic, I am really enjoying your components.

I don't know if it's too early for feature requests and such for your grouped playlist view, but in case it is not:
I'd love to group by discnumber in case of multidisc albums.
So my grouping code is as follows:

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$ifgreater(%TOTALDISCS%,1,%DISCNUMBER%,)

This basically works fine, but it creates an "untitled" grouping line for every single disc album.

Thanks a lot for your effort musicmusic, I am really enjoying your components.

%album%$ifgreater(%TOTALDISCS%,1, - Disc %DISCNUMBER%,)

If you want a frame around the playing track you can still use $set_style to achieve that.

With the aforementioned option enabled, the only time the focus rectangle should be shown when you start using the keyboard. If you do have it enabled then I am not sure what you are seeing but I don't seem to be - can you describe further / screenshot? If you don't then its probably the first issue below.

I do see the following bugs which I will fix:
-Keyboard focus gets reset to playlist upon restoring
-System focus rectangle is drawn incorrectly on selected items

At some point, I also changed the playlist view so it only displays the focus rect when it is focused. I don't remember when that was but most of my other stuff did that already anyway.

The behaviour when switching to a playlist for the first time in a session has been to scroll to the focused item. That has been for a while. If that's not what you meant then yes screen shots would be nice.

[...] and the fact, that I played around with the windows option without restarting foobar. If you do the latter, than sometimes the active item frame is never displayed, even if you use the keyboard...

If my memory serves me right, then in an old version the playlist would scroll to the focused item and the item was 'fully' selected.

Can you give me a hint how to achieve that?
I still have an old config with those pipes ( | ) in my columns/style...
I really would like to "translate" it to the newer $set_style but i dont know how

$if(%isplaying%,$set_style(frame-left,1,<your chosen colour>)
$set_style(frame-top,1,<your chosen colour>)
$set_style(frame-bottom,1,<your chosen colour>),)

$if(%isplaying%,$set_style(frame-top,1,<your chosen colour>)
$set_style(frame-bottom,1,<your chosen colour>),)

$select(%_tracknum%,
%_info_1%,
%_info_2%,
%_info_2%,
)
$ifgreater(%_tracknum%,03,
%_row_2%,
)

$replace(%title%,'(',808080|505050'(',
')',')')
$if(%various%, - %artist%,)
$if(%skip%,  000091|910000*,)
$tab()

The tabstack doesn't work alright. Updating the browser panels (3of4 panels in the stack) causes the "last" browser tab to spill over unto the others (i.e. my last browser tab is album and if I update the browser panels all panels become album for a while, even the last tab which contain the playlist switcher).

$ifequal($mod(%tracknumber%,2),0
// if the tracknumber is even, the remainder when you divide tracknumber by 2 is 0
//Put your color for even number row here
,
//Put your color for odd number row here

)

$if(%various%,%artist% - ,)
$replace(%title%,'(',808080|505050'(',
')',')')
$if(%skip%,  000091|910000*,)
$tab()

000091|910000

$set_style(text,$rgb())
$set_style(back,$rgb())

@musicmusic, do you plan to add some interface to include other plugins' settings in *.fcl (on import/export)? Wouldn't it be better than n separate config files for each uie?