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Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #100 –
what would really be great is to have a save/load type menu system which saves files to the foobar folder or so that people can share their configs and back them up as well.. also when redesiging the layout they can then simply choose the layout they had for each track info panel and load it back up

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #101 –
I'd wholeheartly migrate to this component, if:

1) there would be an ellipsize mode

And I suggest the following improvements, if possible...

2) Add a variable for displaying the playlist name, current index, number of entries.
3) Maybe a variable for the next track? foo_osd for 0.83 had this.
4) Please add some quick infos about the component to the gui. e.g. like uie_quicksearch does, it has a help tab.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #102 –
Quote from: Squeller on
I'd wholeheartly migrate to this component, if:

1) there would be an ellipsize mode

You could use $alignabs(...,...)

Even Though,$alignabs needs an update, in my pov:
-It should have NO INFLUENCE TO "$alignset()" and be autonom even with $char(10)s in it ...!!
(Otherwise the $alignset() is not very useful, since its disturbed by the "Background" (created with $alignabs)

And when the work on this goes on, I have a few minnor suggestions, too:
-#SHADE#-Effect should be on lower level and/or to be set with colors

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #103 –
guys, all these things will be implemented or re-implemented in better way than they are now - things like #SHADE#, glow and other missing features. however, from how it works and what it does, one can easily assume that we are going for some interesting things in the future - i mean the layout mechanism is much more flexible and it could allow outputting images directly to the text flow etc. we are going to see alpha-blending text, rectangles and maybe even images

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #104 –
Indeed this plugin has a lot of cool features that allow you to create a lot of cool stuff right now, though im too lazy to use, or better learn how to use this new formatting strings. But as far as i've seen, you guys are doing some very very good things with it (the vertical progress bar is nice).

Yeah this plugin rocks ..

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #105 –
I've uploaded a new version with preliminary support for images, and a couple of changes/bugfixes.

FrDelefortrie & thuan >> does it crash when playing a particular file or all the time?

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #106 –
Don't know what to say it's kind of random.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #107 –
i would like to notice others that this new version doesn't take over the old track info (as requested by many) so you would lose your panels. i suggest putting back the old track info panel (not the mod) ...

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #108 –
amazing work, terrestrial. it seems we have to specify alignment after $imageabs - like $align(,) - for the following text to show. another glitch is that it seems to update less often than text - i.e. not always when changing tracks, when the image's path may change due to different context, time etc. changing position works, but the image wouldn't change. example: $imageabs($mod(%playback_time_seconds%,12),12,data\misc images\rate%rating%.png,flow)$align(,)$repeat(word ,40). you can get the rating images for testing here.

request: i use custom info for rating my songs (so it's not real tags). everything works fine, however trackinfo panel picks changes in these "virtual tags" only once in a second, not the moment they change (like colums_ui's playlist for example, which reacts instantly). could you do something about it?

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #109 –
Is it possible, besides new layout features, made some additional changes:
- add support for %_system_*% variables (time and date) to make natural language timestamps working;
- fix detection of track under cursor after command "View\Columns playlist\Activate now playing" used and playlist switching occurred?

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #110 –
@mazy, could you post your config for the trackinfo panel?

I'm interested to see what you have came up with.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #111 –
I use this trackinfo_mod now. But: With the latest version, I lost my config. I'll have to restore it from a backup.
Please add some details about file formats... A simple 256 color bmp image doesn't work here.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #112 –
unabatedshagie - i'm not really using it in my main foobar, only testing it for time being. my testing foobar looks like this right now:



Squeller - you can put the old track info panel or the mod (and rename it's dll) back and recover these settings. the new version (as mentioned in the readme and in my previous post) is distinct from the old one and doesn't take over its settings.

as for images - well 32-bit pngs with alpha channel work here, i think that bmps with 256-color palette should work too. imho what you're experiencing is that refresh / update problem i've mentioned. try using the formatting snippet i've posted above.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #113 –
ok, fixed the image updating problem.

Only pngs are supported.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #114 –
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request: i use custom info for rating my songs (so it's not real tags). everything works fine, however trackinfo panel picks changes in these "virtual tags" only once in a second, not the moment they change (like colums_ui's playlist for example, which reacts instantly). could you do something about it?

probably some change notification I'm missing. I will look into it. fixed for the next version.

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- add support for %_system_*% variables (time and date) to make natural language timestamps working;

are _system_ variables added by columns ui? they don't apprear in the titleformat reference....

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- fix detection of track under cursor after command "View\Columns playlist\Activate now playing" used and playlist switching occurred?

fixed for the next version.

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I use this trackinfo_mod now. But: With the latest version, I lost my config. I'll have to restore it from a backup.
Please add some details about file formats... A simple 256 color bmp image doesn't work here.

new version is separated from the original so you can run both at the same time, so your settings will not be migrated over.

only pngs are currently supported.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #115 –
Quote from: terrestrial on
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- add support for %_system_*% variables (time and date) to make natural language timestamps working;


are _system_ variables added by columns ui? they don't apprear in the titleformat reference....

I doesn't really know where they come from, but probably yes. Is it very difficult to implement similar variables?

Quote from: terrestrial on
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- fix detection of track under cursor after command "View\Columns playlist\Activate now playing" used and playlist switching occurred?


fixed for the next version.

when it wil be released?

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #116 –
sry

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #117 –
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy and use this component, but isn't this just reinventing the wheel? Why hasn't someone made a component with IE control like Miranda's IEView that parses HTML code and still maintains a very low memory footprint. It would accomplish everything this plugin does visually and beyond [maybe with the exception of refreshing every second], and it would be less complicated use.

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #118 –
metal_termite, miranda's ieview is quite a resource hug (like many visual miranda's plugins). foosion is working on html panel using very nice and window-less browser component.

as for trackinfo panel, i still see many uses for it, as it could add features not possible in html panel, it may be faster etc. you are right though that with all these new things track info panel is going to look like something with similar possibilities like html panel.

terrestrial, maybe you could switch to gdi+, as it would be nice to be able to resize images in the future, it supports gifs, bmps, pngs and other formats, has antialiasing / blending support etc. what do you think?

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #119 –
Mmh, this code ...
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$imageabs($mod(%playback_time_seconds%,12),12,data\misc images\rate%rating%.png,flow)$align(,)$repeat(word ,40)
... No Pic ...!!
-Even though I downloaded mazy's pngs and put the data folder in Foobar's AND in Component's directory, to be on the save side ...!!
Canging the code, settig x,y manualy, and/ or naming the png by its concrete name (e.g. "rate2.png" ) take no effect ... All I see is "word", 40 times !! 

And:
Dont wanna trap your nerves, but
Quote from: Sw!ng on
Even Though,$alignabs needs an update, in my pov:
-It should have NO INFLUENCE TO "$alignset()" and be autonom even with $char(10)s in it ...!!
(Otherwise the $alignset() is not very useful, since its disturbed by the "Background" (created with $alignabs)
Is this allready planed or a is it a stupid Idea ...??

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #120 –
Sw!ng, are you using the latest version? there are few things critical to images improved. other than that, there could be not enough place. have you tried it while playing track with %rating%?

others: i've realized that with the new support for images you can do pseudoskins with multiple layers - background, reflection etc. quick test of concept:



terrestrial: it seems there's something wrong going on with $font. i tried to use $font(Wingdings,20,21-60-98) in the example above, but i couldn't get it to show the star then - probably because of codepages or something (i.e. when i used the character or $char for the star - obtained from microsoft's character map utility - i got nothing).

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #121 –
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when it wil be released?


I actually ended up uploading it after that last post.

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Don't get me wrong, I enjoy and use this component, but isn't this just reinventing the wheel?


a little bit  I just happened to have the majority of this code already laying around, so it wasn't too much work to add it in. A HTML component could probably do a lot more fancier cost, but I think the overhead would be much more significant as well.

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terrestrial, maybe you could switch to gdi+, as it would be nice to be able to resize images in the future, it supports gifs, bmps, pngs and other formats, has antialiasing / blending support etc. what do you think?


I can certainly use gdi+ in addition to gdi to get additional features, but I don't think there is any need to change over gdi stuff to gdi+ as I don't think gdi+ offers any advantages in the basic text stuff I already use.

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Even though I downloaded mazy's pngs and put the data folder in Foobar's AND in Component's directory, to be on the save side ...!!
Canging the code, settig x,y manualy, and/ or naming the png by its concrete name (e.g. "rate2.png" ) take no effect ... All I see is "word", 40 times !! blink.gif


make sure you're running the latest version.

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Even Though,$alignabs needs an update, in my pov:
-It should have NO INFLUENCE TO "$alignset()" and be autonom even with $char(10)s in it ...!!
(Otherwise the $alignset() is not very useful, since its disturbed by the "Background" (created with $alignabs)


$alignabs should already be able to handle newlines..

I envisioned using the $alignrel and $alignset at the beginning, and $alignabs towards the end, and not switching between the modes too much which is why $alignabs affects $alignset. I will see if I can change it to ignore it though

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terrestrial: it seems there's something wrong going on with $font. i tried to use $font(Wingdings,20,21-60-98) in the example above, but i couldn't get it to show the star then - probably because of codepages or something (i.e. when i used the character or $char for the star - obtained from microsoft's character map utility - i got nothing).


it looks like you're missing a couple of commas for the $font

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #123 –
strange... maybe there is some sort of interaction with the other code. can you try just:

$font(Wingdings,20,,21-60-98)$char(171)

and see if it works?

Track Info Panel with ability to change font

Reply #124 –
i'm puzzled. it seems to work now, probably some error on my side, sorry

[edit:] but this doesn't work - star character with code 234 for the Wingdings 2 font: $font(Wingdings 2,20,,)$char(234) (and i can't even make it work by setting this font in the configuration dialog). i did some tests and from #128 up it doesn't work for almost each other one (129 works, 130 not, 131 works ...). i'm using czech locale ...