thx for the reply, yes because my ng playlist is looking a little bland at the moment... alternating line colours would be cool

I'm using foobar 0.95 beta 3 and columns ui 0.21 alpha 7 v2.

For some reason all the columns settings get deleted from playlist view repeatedly. When I fix them again, they get deleted.. I have no clue why.

thx for the reply, yes because my ng playlist is looking a little bland at the moment... alternating line colours would be cool

Sub request... it would be really cool if you could change the background color of the group title line, as well as the font color. Then I would change the background to a dark gray with white font color.  If you like this idea musicmusic it would look better if it was possible to remove the line.

That's good to know.. and the way to circumvent it for now, by using auto sizing columns.

It would be also nice if the alignment settings in playlist view affected ng playlist column settings too.

I suppose I've said this a couple of times already, but I'd like if album panel list remembered the scrollbar position. Currently it still resets to top every time I close foobar. That way I end up listening less of the albums which are on bottom of the list.. since I'm too lazy to scroll ;-)

Sorry but it appears I am a bit late to the filter panel party. Is it possible to define the name of the playlist generated by the filter panels? I like to share a common main playlist between components and "Filter Results" isnt very flexible.

$if(%_themed%,,$if($and(%isplaying%,$not(%_is_group%)),

$puts(back,$offset_colour(%_back%,$offset_colour($calculate_blend_target(%_back%),ff0000,20),25))
$puts(back-selected,$offset_colour(%_selected_back%,$offset_colour($calculate_blend_target(%_selected_back%),ff0000,20),25))
$puts(back-selected-no-focus,$offset_colour(%_selected_back_no_focus%,$offset_colour($calculate_blend_target(%_selected_back_no_focus%),ff0000,20),25))
,

$ifequal($mod($if2(%_display_index,%playlist_number%),2),0,
$puts(back,$offset_colour(%_back%,$calculate_blend_target(%_back%),12))
$puts(back-selected,%_selected_back%)
$puts(back-selected-no-focus,%_selected_back_no_focus%)
,
$puts(back-selected,$offset_colour(%_selected_back%,$calculate_blend_target(%_selected_back%),7))
$puts(back-selected-no-focus,$offset_colour(%_selected_back_no_focus%,$calculate_blend_target(%_selected_back_no_focus%),7))
$puts(back,%_back%)
)

)
$set_style(back,$get(back),$get(back-selected),$get(back-selected-no-focus)))

I must ask though. What is your goal with NG playlist? What is better about it compared to the old one, apart from the group headers.

What does NG stand for?

To answer your original post, you can use the %_is_group% variable in the style string to choose different colours for the group headers. I didn't decide how it will be integrated into the Colours and Fonts page yet. I may add a %_group_level% if there's a need for it.

If you use a $rgb() in your group script it will make the text colour in the style script only affect the line.

Hi musicmusic. Thanks for your efforts on this UI, the new NG Playlist and Filter panel made the switch back from Panels quite painless and enjoyable.

Here are a few gripes, though, and a couple of requests.

1) In the new alpha when you delete any tracks from the playlist, a certain amount of tracks at the bottom gets "NEIN" in every field, and the selection frame appears. Switching to another playlist and back gets it back to normal.

2) Playlist scrolling position isn't remembered. When I switch to my Current playlist through any playlist switcher, I'm always at the top.

3) When you click on a group header, the whole group becomes selected. It would be cool if you could ctrl-click on other group headers to add them to selection (or remove by clicking again), and shift-clicking to select an interval will be nice too.

4) I'd like to be able to interact with Filter panel much the same way as with Album list. That is, be able to middle-click a node to add the filtered tracks to the currently selected playlist,

and right-click on the node to enter their properties without sending them to any playlists.

I don't really mind using a separate playlist or two for this panel (triggered on left-click, for example, or double-click), and sometimes that's the best way, but usually I prefer to store my listening queue in one list, without overwriting/deleting the recently listened tracks when adding some new ones.

5) Is there a chance to use the standard tag mappings for Filter panel fields, or at least some of them? When using the Artist field to filter, the VA albums get sliced to pieces, but if you change it to Album Artist, all other albums get thrown together to "All" group, since they have this field empty. The use of titleformatting which would certainly solve the issue may also bring some perceptible performance overhead, as I can conclude from some of the discussions on this forum, and that's something I'd like to avoid. Or is that conclusion wrong?

I noticed something else just now. I created a single column with both artist name and track title in it (Artist - Title). In this column Artist is align left, "-" is aligned center (sort of) and Title aligned right. Is that intentional? Is there a way I can align everything left in the field? The field is set to align left...

EDIT. This alignment is pretty cool though. Would be cool with a reversed one as well, if you know what I mean.
Currently. Artist________-________Title
Reversed. _______Artist - Title________

Laugh if you want or call me stupid... Do you mean like this this? Or something more advanced. $rgb doesn't seem to have any effect for me.
$if(%_is_group%,
$set_style(back,ffffff)
$set_style(text,ff8000)
$rgb(192,192,192)
)

I like your component now.
Two quick questions:
1) In the Filter panel, how can I show various artists contained in albums? I type the field "Various" , but doesn't work. I am confused because I can't use script in the fields.
2) Is it possible to make a feature like "Properties" "Metadata" panels in ColumnsUI?
Thank you for your Great work!

That is a big oops, it doesn't help VC9 linker keeps crashing on me during debug build  Anyway please download v2

That shouldn't be a problem if you disable auto-send, I guess you were looking for album list panel behaviour though? I'll look into changing it.

I mentioned this before sometime but there are basically three possible solutions:
-Use fixed/hardcoded remappings. Disadvantage: Can't be disabled.
-Implement remappings through an extended syntax (e.g. "Genre;Album Artist,Artist;Album")
-Implement remappings through automatic detection of titleformatting script. (i.e. you can enter either a titleformat script or just field name). Disadvantage: Titleformatting script method isn't exactly compatible with inline editing, would need some additional setting for that. Not compatible with multi-value fields (at least without hacks on my side).

I am against 1 so that leaves 2 or 3. I will maybe measure how much difference title formatting will make.

Thanks for the quick response. The problem with deletion is gone

, but the issue with the border around the focused track (which I previously mislabeled as "selection frame") is still there, though a little changed.
At the start the border is shown. It becomes hidden after switching away from foobar window, and the only way to get it back that I've found is to delete a few tracks. All this with default style settings.
Not too much of a problem, though.

Somehow I don't feel like disabling autosend, with its speed and all.  At least while there's no option to add tracks to the current playlist with a single click.
But maybe an option to not autosend until there's something selected in all of the fields will be useful.

I'd vote for 2 as the simplest solution, but I guess there are people out there who like to be able to put 'The' and 'A' articles at the end, or do some other, more complicated stuff.

Maybe another thing for you to consider would be to separate sorting criteria and the display. This may become extremely useful if you add the ability to display images to the NG Playlist, and subsequently (?) to the Filter panel.

Bug in NG Playlist: undo skips removing track with middle-click.

Did you put tabs in there or smth?

Not quite: Put the $rgb(192,192,192) at the beginning of your group script on NG Playlist prefs page instead