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foo_ui_columns (http://members.lycos.co.uk/musicf/) is UI to which I was waiting eagerly just for this.It's very cool.
But since it's alpha status.I have big problem with this.I can't add colomns.
foobar will be crash.However It's very useful for me.
I wolud like to this component to become more perfect.

hmm plugin seems to have trouble with sorting/displaying playlist with untagged tracks in it, gonna try to reproduce sometime soon (not now - bed!).. pretty neat otherwise

Under Win2kSP4 the GUI shows up as an empty grey window.

Nevertheless congratulations for this nice approach, it's highly regarded.  

Regards,
The Link

It looks very good already (http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/7PB26279UA/picserver.png) but it needs some work, e.g. trying to add a new column crashes it... The status bar font also should be separately configurable.

nice UI ..

- when i click on the 'time' or any other column, it will only sort one way. not in reverse
- i can't add files to an existing tab
- gonna add the ability to delete some of the toolbars? - play order, vis, and so on.

opps .. didn't read the very last part of your post. hope it all comes together.

i think it can be a much cleaner interface than the default one.

Alpha 2 is still just a grey form with a title bar and a status bar in Win2k (SP4). Maybe a missing dll, but there's no error message. I hope this can be fixed.

ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : wm_create
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : window handle: 852574 playlist window handle: 1114750 last error: 1400
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlists window handle: 1180294 last error: 0

From console:
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : wm_create
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : window handle: 1180340 playlist window handle: 1311470 last error: 1400
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlists window handle: 918256 last error: 1400

And there's still just the title bar and status bar.

ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window handle: 1288
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window handle: 1240 last error: 87
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : header window handle: 1208 last error: 87
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : pl list wnd: 1212 last error: 87
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 0 0 504 356
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 111 89 500 327
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 111 89 500 327
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 0 0 504 356
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 111 58 500 327
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 111 58 500 327
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status wnd: 1628 last error: 87
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 785 541
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 781 512
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 517 781 537
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 785 541
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 781 512
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 517 781 537
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 785 541
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 781 512
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 517 781 537
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 785 541
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 781 512
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 517 781 537
INFO (CORE) : startup time: 10790 ms
ERROR (CORE) : Failed to load DLL: foo_delete.dll, reason: Unable to load dll.
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 978 529
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 974 500
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 505 974 525
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 978 529
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 974 500
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 505 974 525
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 779 556
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 775 527
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 532 775 552
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 779 556
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 775 527
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 532 775 552
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 930 608
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 926 579
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 584 926 604
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 930 608
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 926 579
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 584 926 604
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 131 16 930 608
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 242 74 926 579
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 135 584 926 604
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 218 10 811 614
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 329 68 807 585
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 222 590 807 610
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 218 10 811 614
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 329 68 807 585
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 222 590 807 610
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 409 7 1021 732
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 520 65 1017 703
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 413 708 1017 728
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : main window rect: 409 7 1021 732
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : playlist window rect: 520 65 1017 703
ERROR (foo_ui_columns) : status window rect: 413 708 1017 728

I have another problem.I can change background color but background color never change inside the colums where color is still black. Can I change color inside colomns?

(win98se) am now getting the interface, when it loads it gives the errors below, and when ever i resize the window it gives errors.

when i resize the columns, the pl goes back to the top and the scroll handle sticks where it was until it click it, then it goes to the top.  same if i sort the columns.

will it be possible to sort by artist, then album?

umm...where's the play buttons?

Love this UI but couple of problems I've found:
1) This:

Great Start!  This is going to be really nice when it's finished.  Actually, its really cool already.

Thanks for udating.Sometimes foobar2000 crash with this UI.But I love this.

(http://medlem.spray.se/fantomex/schampo/Clipboard01.png)
am i the only one who gets this?

It looks very good already (http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/7PB26279UA/picserver.png) but it needs some work, e.g. trying to add a new column crashes it... The status bar font also should be separately configurable.

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It looks very good already (http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/view_image.php/7PB26279UA/picserver.png) but it needs some work, e.g. trying to add a new column crashes it... The status bar font also should be separately configurable.

Where did you foobar .7.7c?  I didn't even know that version existed 

QUOTE (juglesh @ Jan 24 2004, 08:59 PM)
when i resize the columns, the pl goes back to the top and the scroll handle sticks where it was until it click it, then it goes to the top. same if i sort the columns.

Seems OK for me, can you explain more? When you sort, the playlist core will scroll to the item with focus. I fixed one bug with scrollbar which would occur when sorting, please tell me if its ok with current version.

i also dont know what's up with your menu, i can probably fix it anyway.

QUOTE (juglesh @ Jan 24 2004, 08:59 PM)
will it be possible to sort by artist, then album?

Whilst unintendedly, you already can (click album column, then artist columns). Not to mention you can set custom strings for sorting already.

QUOTE (juglesh @ Jan 24 2004, 08:59 PM)
umm...where's the play buttons?

I think you're confused, those are in the standard ui. If you meant are you going to add buttons, yes, someday.

Where did you foobar .7.7c?  I didn't even know that version existed 

apparently taskbar balloon tip on song change is not working with foo_ui_columns...

Win98SE bug here.

It seems that I cannot manually (though by database search it works) add files with "national" characters:

Björk - I've Seen It All
Brücken, Claudia - Kiss Like Ether [Earth Mood Magic]
Jørgensen, C. V. - Ude Af Sync

Being prime examples.

current vers has glitchy vis. vis is ok when playing but freezes on stop(actually kinda cool) and sometimes when stopped is all kinda garbled.  again, not a big deal.

Some thoughts and suggestions:

-Setting custom string under Artist to "%artist%|%album%|$num(%tracknumber%,2)" lets me keep my tracknumbers for each album in order, which I like. However, is there a way to sort ascending if I click on the column twice? Sometimes it's nice to have

-Selecting works ok, but dragging up doesn't deselect as it should.

-Scrolling with a wheel mouse doesn't work.

-Could you add the normal menus and the play buttons back? I miss them.

-Make it more like WinXP's details view, with the selected column a different color and a little arrow indicating the direction it's being sorted. Also, I know you set this in the prefs, but I'd be kinda nice to be able to drag the columns around in the main GUI like Windows can.

-Very minor issue, but the Playback order toolbar should have a minimum size that corresponds to the longest item, like the default UI.

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apparently taskbar balloon tip on song change is not working with foo_ui_columns...

Because this feature is part of the default GUI.

//bitrate stuff
$if2($greater(0,$info(bitrate)),$get(RED))
$if2($greater(129,$info(bitrate)),$get(YELLOW))
$if2($greater(161,$info(bitrate)),$get(GREY))
$if2($greater(192,$info(bitrate)),$get(GREEN))
$if2($greater(256,$info(bitrate)),$get(BLUE))
$pad($info(bitrate),4)$char(9474)

Does anyone have any requests for columns.

Very cool, works with w2k + sp4 now
anyway, i did notice a few things, colors in scripts don't seem to work, i know there a little box there for adding colors, but it's not very flexible, i use different colors for bitrate and such....
like this:

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//bitrate stuff
$if2($greater(0,$info(bitrate)),$get(RED))
$if2($greater(129,$info(bitrate)),$get(YELLOW))
$if2($greater(161,$info(bitrate)),$get(GREY))
$if2($greater(192,$info(bitrate)),$get(GREEN))
$if2($greater(256,$info(bitrate)),$get(BLUE))
$pad($info(bitrate),4)$char(9474)

Also, i'm not quite sure of the $pad_right(), $pad() and such features, are they working like they do in the normal iu ?

But my my scrollwheel on the mouse ain't working!

And what is the "use custom title spec for sorting by column" ? give an example on it plz

EDIT: oh, and the sorting is kinda nuts on the lenght  (i guess we need natural sorting or something like that)

EDIT2: Also, the the dropdown thingy (playmode, default,shuffle, whatever...) does not show, it does not drop down....

Also, a save config thingy like foo_syfm would be awsome

rectangle & tri: thanks, both fixed (redownload, still marked alpha 5)

$puts(WHITE,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)
$puts(RED,0000FF|0000FF)
$puts(GREY,969696|969696)
$puts(GREEN,00FF00|00FF00)
$puts(LGREEN,00FF88|00FF88)
$puts(YELLOW,0fB9FF|0fB9FF)
//$puts(BLUE,ff0000|ff0000)
$puts(BLUE,ff6600|000000)
$puts(BLACK,000000|000000)
$puts(WHITE,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)

Does anyone have any requests for columns. I plan to add the following
- Left/centre/rigth align,emt

truncate with an ellipsis character ("…") when the text is too big to fit in the column? A nice extra on top of this would be a tooltip

what about individual horizontal scroll bars for all (or specified) columns.  if x characters are truncated, show horizontal scroll bar.

Since this dll is still in it's alpha stage, it still has some problems when it comes to resizing. The columns aren't smart enough (yet) to adjust their width automatically. A horizontal scroll bar is a good idea for interim releases.. but once all the bugs are ironed out, it won't be neccessary.

I absolutely love those avatars that feature nes/snes characters. Can you suggest a site that provides guides on how to create one?

@ ginipig1 and foosion:
guys...hello? foobar is supposed to be functional, not eye candy!

@ ginipig1 and foosion:
guys...hello? foobar is supposed to be functional, not eye candy!  ugly...  pfft.  sacrifice a few pixels at the bottom for funtionality.

the thought of one horizontal scroll bar never crossed my mind cuz i was thinking about the right aligned columns, but that would be good, too.  you could have info that you dont need that often hidden off to the right or left.

yes, please.  be great to have right align. any columns you have right aligned should stick to the right no matter the window size. 

also, what would be great is if you could specify that a column would be 'unsqueezeable', that is, if you resize other columns, unsqueezable columns would not change size.  could make colums unexpandable, too. ie, if you squeeze other column, this column will not expand.

you could also specify certain columns to be the first (2nd, 3rd, etc) one squeezed.  maybe specify that a column would be the first to squeez, but only squeeze down to x characters or pixels.   and make columns last(2nd, 3rd, etc) to squeez.

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truncate with an ellipsis character ("…") when the text is too big to fit in the column? A nice extra on top of this would be a tooltip

-Haggis

i like this, too.

what about individual horizontal scroll bars for all (or specified) columns.  if x characters are truncated, show horizontal scroll bar.

oh, could you please post the url for your site? (musicmusic) maybe list it in your profile. thx

getting better and better .. good job.

you changed from the right pane of playlists to tabs .. can you make it an option to use either?

This is small feature, but is it possible statusbar to update instantly when moving the playing "slider".

hope you understand...

I like it, I like it!!!

Suggestions:
-Have a separate font setting for the playlist and the column names
-Adopt the seekbar from the default UI, or at least make "instant seeking" an option

Keep up the good work! As soon as someone thinks out how to use upNorth's formatting string, or something like that for foo_columns, I'm in'

what do you mean foosion?

Since this dll is still in it's alpha stage, it still has some problems when it comes to resizing. The columns aren't smart enough (yet) to adjust their width automatically. A horizontal scroll bar is a good idea for interim releases.. but once all the bugs are ironed out, it won't be neccessary.

And another request: could you make the playlist 3D instead of flat look?

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(http://medlem.spray.se/fantomex/schampo/Clipboard01.png)
am i the only one who gets this?

win98 toolbar control doesnt support setting a button with no image, probably related. Please try latest version, and tell me if its fixed or not.

• Can you change the color of the font used to display the playlists list ? Well if you can't consider it as a feature request (white font on white background is not really readable ^^)
• I think when you click the header of a column it should switch between ascending and descending sorting... Unless you prefer it that way for some reason ?
• You should definitely be able to import/export configs (it's already been requested but I think it's an important feature)
• I'd love to have a cusomizable tool-tip, that would display a string when you let your cursor over a title.
• Could you use the same seekbar as in the default UI ? I find it easier to grab.
• What is the space between the status bar and the playlist (about 5 pixels) used for ?  :-P

The thing i miss with the default user interface also is the ability continue song where it left when shutting down the program...

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And another request: could you make the playlist 3D instead of flat look?

do you mean the frame/border around the playlist, or something else?

err... in the default config the length string has "[%_TIME_ELAPSED% /]" it doesn't do anything for me, and I don't think "%_TIME_ELAPSED%" is supposed to be used in the playlist anyway  :-/

why is it here ? o_O

when pressing a key in the playlist could take it to artist beginning with that alphabet.

You misinterpreted me - i meant text alignment. You can currently use tab char to right align stuff but that wont affect the text alignment in the header.

wouldnt the logical thing to do be resize the column? anyway, as foosion said it would be a mess and look a mess too.

Maybe i could add a scrollbar less mode where columns expand/compress to take up all available space

It shows the elapsed time on whichever file is playing.

Also, ONE color property for all fields would be usefull (as an option)
and perhaps a singe place where i could paste thing like color definitions so i don't have to do that in every single window

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It shows the elapsed time on whichever file is playing.

Doesn't work for me... oh well 

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The thing i miss with the default user interface also is the ability continue song where it left when shutting down the program...

This has nothing to do with the user interface. Go to "Preferences->Core", check "Resume playback after restart".

when pressing a key in the playlist could take it to artist beginning with that alphabet.

yeah, here is a thread suggesting a pluggin or feature like that.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=166848 (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16789&view=findpost&p=166848)

This is getting really cool!  
Even the default settings look good IMHO (with the right fonts chosen). One thing that I'd like to have is working scrolling with the mouse wheel (no name mouse here ==> no good drivers). Otherwise everything is just great!

Regards,
The Link

wow, sweeeet ! I love your UI, maybe still a few things to add/fix, but it's already better than the default one IMHO.

anyway, here are my thoughts, questions, suggestions :

• Can you change the color of the font used to display the playlists list ? Well if you can't consider it as a feature request (white font on white background is not really readable ^^)
  
• I think when you click the header of a column it should switch between ascending and descending sorting... Unless you prefer it that way for some reason ?
  
• You should definitely be able to import/export configs (it's already been requested but I think it's an important feature)
  
• I'd love to have a cusomizable tool-tip, that would display a string when you let your cursor over a title.
  
• Could you use the same seekbar as in the default UI ? I find it easier to grab.
  
• What is the space between the status bar and the playlist (about 5 pixels) used for ?  :-P

Well, I think that's all for now. Just keep up the good work ^^

Good job!! This component looks very good!!!

few improvements/suggestions:
when pressing a key in the playlist could take it to artist beginning with that alphabet.

for example you press B and the selection goes to Britney Spears

Stuff worth mentoning:

1) You can only en/disable "Playback order", "Playback buttons" is linked to the same

2) If you change the column sizes by dragging, this does not change the sizes set in config -> you go into config, and everything gets back to the default (or whatever you set there)

3) Maybe a time_elapsed tooltip for the seekbar would be nice

4) And yes, the default colors should be changed

5) Maybe a different kind of vis... I made a small "stereo" vis, if you're interested, maybe it can be incorporated. I dunno how "vis-in-ui" code works, but I'm sure if I sent you my code it could be easily merged

BTW, anyone care to make some nice formatting strings for this UI?

And, before I forget : THANK YOU, again, for making this cool plugin! 

Quote from: musicmusic,Jan 28 2004, 10:18 PM

Quote from: Speek,Jan 27 2004, 01:42 PM

And another request: could you make the playlist 3D instead of flat look?

do you mean the frame/border around the playlist, or something else?

Yes, that's what I mean.

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Maybe i could add a scrollbar less mode where columns expand/compress to take up all available space

that would be a decent solution if you could specify min/max pixels or % for each column.  for example, the length column (which i would want right aligned) would have a min/max of 70 pixels.  if all columns resized on window resize or column resize, the length column would allways stay the right size, and would allways stay to the right.

I absolutely love this UI, but I have a problem with the playlist display after scrolling horizontally. Here's a screenshot (http://home.socal.rr.com/deibs/Foo_UI_Columns.png).

If I scroll horizontally to the right, then select an item, it will display left-aligned as though I hadn't scrolled. This is with alpha 6, but I'm pretty sure it was happening with earlier builds.

Gettingreally good, but there are a few more things i'del ike to comment

the new option, use global string might have something to do with this suggestion, yes?

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Also, ONE color property for all fields would be usefull (as an option)
and perhaps a singe place where i could paste thing like color definitions so i don't have to do that in every single window

please explain it further, i tried to add my color definitions there but it did not work as expected 

also, the scrollwheel on my mouse ain't working, mx700 (logitech) mouse that works just fine with the default UI

EDIT:
The dropdown thingy on the playback order is still not working.... 

good job musicmusic, i like so much this ui   but 2 things...

when i change background color, only change the scroll bar color
and Why i dont see them? (http://tig0ti.org/bisley/fb2k.jpg)

keep up the good work !

ok, here're some basic things which come to my mind about streamlining and a more copy'n paste friendly layout:

- the colour-string should be global, instead of column-specific(individual column-foreground-colors can easiely be set in the column-string itself.
- selected-item-frame and background-color could then too be moved into the above global colour-string, and the coresponding color buttons removed
- rename "titleformatting spec" to "titleformating"
- rename "use custom titleformatting spec for sorting by column" to "use custom sorting string"

rearange the options:
- make the current "more" page, the root UI-page
- rename the current root UI-page to "column-formatting" and make it a sub of the root
- move the global color-string, vis-color-buttons and font-settings into a third options-page called "fonts & colors"

Of course the above is just my personal opinion on what could be improved about the options, and it may be well the case that most others do find my proposals wrong or plain stupid.

- Lyx

edit: even better would imho be, if the "global string" and "global color string" could be merged, so that we could set the global colors right inside the "global string" with a function, or something like that. But i don't know if thats possible.

There's also a slight bug in the total time display. It seems to show the length of the first track in the selection multiplied by the number of tracks selected.

1. then you cant set diff background colours per column, only per row (track). unless i set some extra item, %_column_index% or somthing, i might change it then

2. sel frame could if it was one string yes. background colour button does not relate to columns at all

3. what kind of diffrence would that make? apart from not making any sense.

QUOTE (kerpondile @ Jan 28 2004, 10:11 PM)   
Good job!! This component looks very good!!!

few improvements/suggestions:
when pressing a key in the playlist could take it to artist beginning with that alphabet.

for example you press B and the selection goes to Britney Spears

QUOTE (musicmatch)
try foo_playlistfind, search for it

musicmusic:
thanks for the fixes, very cool

ah yes, it's a dropdown issue on the playback thingy, nothing really drops down, i've taken a small scrennshot of it...

screenshot (http://213.65.162.108:2500/bug/foo_ui_bug.jpg)

EDIT: cropping ?
wtf is that?

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1. then you cant set diff background colours per column, only per row (track). unless i set some extra item, %_column_index% or somthing, i might change it then

correct... however:
+ one string less >per column< to copy'n paste on sites like ampaa's formatting site
+ if the global string and such a global-color-string could be merged, ALL configuration stuff of a style could be centralized in the global string
- no column-specific background-colors possible

To me it seems, that the benefits are higher, than the disadvantages

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2. sel frame could if it was one string yes. background colour button does not relate to columns at all

It may not relate to columns - but would it be possible to set the background-color via the color-string/global string?

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3. what kind of diffrence would that make? apart from not making any sense.

What does this to relate to, exactly?

Ok, taking a wild guess that you may not understand what all this should be good for, here's a comparision.

stuff to copy'n paste and setup to insert a full foo_ui_columns style in the the options(in this example, our string has 5 columns):

as it is now:
01. paste global string
02. manually set background color
03. manually set selected-item color
04. paste column1 formatting string
05. paste column1 color-string
06. optionally past column1 sort string
07. paste column2 formatting string
08. paste column2 color-string
09. optionally past column2 sort string
10. paste column3 formatting string
11. paste column3 color-string
12. optionally past column3 sort string
13. paste column4 formatting string
14. paste column4 color-string
15. optionally past column4 sort string
16. paste column5 formatting string
17. paste column5 color-string
18. optionally past column5 sort string


if the color-string would be global, background and item-frame could be set in the color-string, and then, this color-string could be merged with the global string, it would be the following way:
01. paste global string
02. paste column1 formatting string
03. optionally past column1 sort string
04. paste column2 formatting string
05. optionally past column2 sort string
06. paste column3 formatting string
07. optionally past column3 sort string
08. paste column4 formatting string
09. optionally past column4 sort string
10. paste column5 formatting string
11. optionally past column5 sort string

I think saving 7 whole steps in the addition to having all central-config in the "general string" are worth sacrificing column-specific backgroundcolors.

Do you mean pressing the wheel (autoscroll) or turning it?

EDIT: cropping ?
wtf is that? 


Ok that's what was happening before here, I know how to make it happen so hopefully i can fix it, thanks.

cropping: i probably meant to type clipped, basically when it gets cut off

6. probably some bad calculations when resizing, can you show me a screenshot of everything?

Illegal operation:
Code: C0000094h, flags: 00000000h, address: 00C76278h
Call path:
WinMain=>app_mainloop
This is the first crash logged by this instance.
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0012F6C0h:  01A61480 0000000F 0000000F 0012F6D8
0012F6D0h:  00C7E8E1 00000000 0012F9F0 00C81FB6
0012F6E0h:  00000111 00220276 030003F3 00000111
0012F6F0h:  00460020 006C0069 00730065 00000000
0012F700h:  00670043 0012F7FA 00000058 005C0068
0012F710h:  00132540 0013257C 0012F9F0 77FCF0E0
0012F720h:  77F91608 7FFDEC14 0013256C 001324EC
0012F730h:  77F70D2C 001325F0 7FFDEBF8 00132540
0012F740h:  0013257C 0012FA1C 001325F0 0013262C
Registers:
EAX: 000001AB, EBX: 004F1718, ECX: 00000010, EDX: 00000000
ESI: 00220276, EDI: 00000111, EBP: 0012F6CC, ESP: 0012F630
Crash location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00C70000h - 00C91000h

Loaded modules:
foobar2000                       loaded at 00400000h - 00450000h
ntdll                            loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
KERNEL32                         loaded at 7C570000h - 7C623000h
USER32                           loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
GDI32                            loaded at 77F40000h - 77F79000h
ole32                            loaded at 77A50000h - 77B3C000h
RPCRT4                           loaded at 77D30000h - 77D9E000h
ADVAPI32                         loaded at 7C2D0000h - 7C332000h
COMCTL32                         loaded at 71710000h - 71794000h
utf8api                          loaded at 10000000h - 1000D000h
comdlg32                         loaded at 76B30000h - 76B6E000h
SHLWAPI                          loaded at 70A70000h - 70AD5000h
msvcrt                           loaded at 78000000h - 78045000h
SHELL32                          loaded at 782F0000h - 78538000h
foo_input_std                    loaded at 00840000h - 008DA000h
MSACM32                          loaded at 77410000h - 77423000h
WINMM                            loaded at 77570000h - 775A0000h
foo_output_std                   loaded at 00960000h - 00969000h
foo_ui_std                       loaded at 00970000h - 00988000h
foo_vis_manager                  loaded at 00990000h - 00998000h
foo_cdda                         loaded at 009A0000h - 009AE000h
foo_flac                         loaded at 009C0000h - 009D7000h
foo_ape                          loaded at 009E0000h - 009FF000h
foo_wavpack                      loaded at 00A00000h - 00A0B000h
foo_speex                        loaded at 00A10000h - 00A28000h
foo_console                      loaded at 00A30000h - 00A38000h
foo_read_http                    loaded at 00A40000h - 00A49000h
WS2_32                           loaded at 75030000h - 75044000h
WS2HELP                          loaded at 75020000h - 75028000h
foo_rgscan                       loaded at 00A50000h - 00A5B000h
foo_diskwriter                   loaded at 00A60000h - 00A6E000h
foo_albumlist                    loaded at 00A70000h - 00A7A000h
foo_masstag                      loaded at 00A80000h - 00A8E000h
foo_history                      loaded at 00A90000h - 00A9E000h
foo_dsp_extra                    loaded at 00AA0000h - 00AB5000h
foo_ac3                          loaded at 00AC0000h - 00AD0000h
foo_audioscrobbler               loaded at 00AD0000h - 00AF2000h
LIBCURL                          loaded at 00B00000h - 00B19000h
foo_clienc                       loaded at 00B30000h - 00B44000h
foo_dbsearch                     loaded at 00B50000h - 00B6A000h
foo_freedb                       loaded at 00B70000h - 00B9E000h
foo_mpeg4u                       loaded at 00BA0000h - 00BCC000h
foo_ofr                          loaded at 00BD0000h - 00BFE000h
foo_osd                          loaded at 00C10000h - 00C1A000h
foo_pl_hopper                    loaded at 00C20000h - 00C26000h
foo_shn                          loaded at 00C30000h - 00C40000h
foo_syfm                         loaded at 00C40000h - 00C4A000h
MSVCR70                          loaded at 5D000000h - 5D04C000h
foo_tbar                         loaded at 00C60000h - 00C69000h
foo_ui_columns                   loaded at 00C70000h - 00C91000h
foo_unpack                       loaded at 00CA0000h - 00CD1000h
OLEAUT32                         loaded at 779B0000h - 77A4B000h
foo_utils                        loaded at 010F0000h - 010F6000h
foo_web                          loaded at 01100000h - 01118000h
foo_wma                          loaded at 01220000h - 01235000h
WMVCore                          loaded at 08530000h - 0872D000h
WMASF                            loaded at 07260000h - 07299000h
foo_write_http                   loaded at 01240000h - 01251000h
LgWndHk                          loaded at 01260000h - 01267000h
iTchHk                           loaded at 024F0000h - 024F7000h
LgMsgHk                          loaded at 02920000h - 0293E000h
rnr20                            loaded at 782C0000h - 782CC000h
DNSAPI                           loaded at 77980000h - 779A4000h
WSOCK32                          loaded at 75050000h - 75058000h
iphlpapi                         loaded at 77340000h - 77353000h
ICMP                             loaded at 77520000h - 77525000h
MPRAPI                           loaded at 77320000h - 77337000h
SAMLIB                           loaded at 75150000h - 7515F000h
NETAPI32                         loaded at 75170000h - 751BF000h
SECUR32                          loaded at 7C340000h - 7C34F000h
NETRAP                           loaded at 751C0000h - 751C6000h
WLDAP32                          loaded at 77950000h - 7797A000h
ACTIVEDS                         loaded at 773B0000h - 773DF000h
ADSLDPC                          loaded at 77380000h - 773A3000h
RTUTILS                          loaded at 77830000h - 7783E000h
SETUPAPI                         loaded at 77880000h - 7790E000h
USERENV                          loaded at 7C0F0000h - 7C151000h
RASAPI32                         loaded at 774E0000h - 77513000h
RASMAN                           loaded at 774C0000h - 774D1000h
TAPI32                           loaded at 77530000h - 77552000h
DHCPCSVC                         loaded at 77360000h - 77379000h
winrnr                           loaded at 777E0000h - 777E8000h
rasadhlp                         loaded at 777F0000h - 777F5000h
msafd                            loaded at 74FD0000h - 74FEE000h
wshtcpip                         loaded at 75010000h - 75017000h
kbdhook                          loaded at 02B90000h - 02B97000h
imagehlp                         loaded at 77920000h - 77943000h
DBGHELP                          loaded at 72A00000h - 72A2D000h

Stack dump analysis:
Address: 77E168A4h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 00C86945h, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00C70000h - 00C91000h
Address: 00C75C0Bh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00C70000h - 00C91000h
Address: 00C7E8E1h, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00C70000h - 00C91000h
Address: 00C81FB6h, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00C70000h - 00C91000h
Address: 77FCF0E0h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F91608h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F70D2Ch, location: "GDI32", loaded at 77F40000h - 77F79000h
Address: 77FCF070h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F91608h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77E5C598h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 77F8C277h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77FCF170h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F91B5Ch, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77FCF0E0h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F91608h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 02B92048h, location: "kbdhook", loaded at 02B90000h - 02B97000h
Address: 77F92A54h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F92A54h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F98191h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F92A98h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77FCC35Ch, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F92A54h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F98191h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77F92A98h, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77E1A3C2h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 77E152CAh, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 77E3A2D0h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 77E29067h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 012610D8h, location: "LgWndHk", loaded at 01260000h - 01267000h
Address: 77E1558Ah, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 77E1559Ah, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 01100060h, location: "foo_web", loaded at 01100000h - 01118000h
Address: 77FA15EFh, location: "ntdll", loaded at 77F80000h - 77FFB000h
Address: 77E1A3C2h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 01261120h, location: "LgWndHk", loaded at 01260000h - 01267000h
Address: 77E3A2D0h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 77E28C1Bh, location: "USER32", loaded at 77E10000h - 77E6F000h
Address: 00C81E50h, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00C70000h - 00C91000h

Version info:
foobar2000 v0.8 beta 1
UNICODE

Disturbing, just found all of my columns getting set to default if i move the dll out, start foobar, close it and then put it back and start it 

also, it has happened that it simpli ignores // ascomments in the filds

- fix turnng off toolbar buttons

I cant seem to remove the playback buttons when using this UI - using foobar 7.7b + the lastest ui_columns dll -

great work btw !

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- fix turnng off toolbar buttons

Actually, no. The checkboxes behave, but "Playback buttons" still toggles "Playback order."

Also, "Rename this playlist..." always renames the current playlist, regardless of which tab I right-clicked.

try entering -11 or something low in the item height thingy to cause a crash
EDIT: i guess it depends on what fontsize u have, i'm currently using Lucida Console 8 and it dies if i type -11.

it also seems to remove a few of the new 0.8 menu stuff, such as sorting and so on

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it also seems to remove a few of the new 0.8 menu stuff, such as sorting and so on

also, what is the "also use for colors string" checkbox for ?

Shortcutkeys doesn't appear to work when you have selected a playlist in the playlist list.

I don't know if it has been said before, or it is wanted this way, but if I press pause and then start the song starts from beginning and doesn't resume (as I expected it).
Realy good work, I like this UI.

Found another thing, can't really pin it down, but i think it has to do with foo_shuffle or something, look at the screenshot, there's an extra space between the playlist and the playlist tabs.. not good 

picture (http://213.65.161.156:2500/bugs/untitled.jpg)

Also, is there a way to reproduce it? And is it fixed if you resize the window?

I dont see how foo_shuffle is related?

well, resizing the windows takes care of it
can't seem to reproduce it as i please though...

hey i am lovin this UI...

anyways herre are 2 things i noticed...

1) the playback buttons are really light colored on my system... am i doing something wrong?... screenshot (http://home.outerspase.net/fbss.png)

2) foo_temple doesnt work with this UI for some reason...  i doubt its your fault musicmusic, but i thought it was worth a mention.

thanks for the nice work!


also...


OT: @musicmusic: do you plan some improvements to the database explorer?  i have been using it a lot and i was wondering what's in store for it.

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hey i am lovin this UI...

anyways herre are 2 things i noticed...

1) the playback buttons are really light colored on my system... am i doing something wrong?... screenshot (http://home.outerspase.net/fbss.png)

2) foo_temple doesnt work with this UI for some reason...  i doubt its your fault musicmusic, but i thought it was worth a mention.

thanks for the nice work!


also...


OT: @musicmusic: do you plan some improvements to the database explorer?  i have been using it a lot and i was wondering what's in store for it.

1. My fault, I didnt feel like using black so i went for a lighter colour. Obviously it doesnt look good for a lot of people, so i will make it a customisable file or just change it to black or something.

2. Dont see how it would be my fault, but I'll take a look, are you using foobar 0.8?

3. Not really can't be bothered, sorry..

1. Maybe a good idea to match it to the color used in windows prefs for button text?

When double clicking on a column divider to auto size the column to the left, it makes itself the exact size of the largest item in the column.  My personal preference would be to make it slightly larger so it doesn't run into the words in the next column, but thats just me.  It might be helpful to others though.

One other thing comes to mind.

When minimizing, it only minimizes the main foobar window, rather than all windows (such as database search, album list, history, database explorer, etc).

Is this intended?

If so can you make it optional?  I have become accustomed to minimizing the main window also minimizing all windows.  This is epecially useful for album list/database explorer, as it makes it possible to hide the window without closing and then reopening (which can take a while with a large database).

Anyways thanks.

Since I cant reproduce it, can you redownload and tell me if its fixed?

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When double clicking on a column divider to auto size the column to the left, it makes itself the exact size of the largest item in the column.  My personal preference would be to make it slightly larger so it doesn't run into the words in the next column, but thats just me.  It might be helpful to others though.

I'm not sure what you mean by "run into the words in the next column", do you mean they get too close?

(Or maybe this would call for some insane modification to the internal renderer... Option to create a gradient bar like with Photoshop's gradient tool... k, that's insane enough, but... then, create an array of colors as wide as the list, based on that gradient... then, draw the text without color codes, as all-white on black... then, use one of the channels from that as alpha level between background and the corresponding column in the gradient array... Voila! It looks cool, but it would be a royal pain in the ass to implement.)

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OT: @musicmusic: do you plan some improvements to the database explorer?  i have been using it a lot and i was wondering what's in store for it.

3. Not really can't be bothered, sorry..

2) foo_temple doesnt work with this UI for some reason...  i doubt its your fault musicmusic, but i thought it was worth a mention.

Yes exactly.

A little space is kinda nice i think.

It seems that foo_ui_columns doesn't play songs at order. When you have selected another song (=some other song, which is not currently playing), and the current song ends it jumps to the song that is selected.

Is this intended? hope you understand...

I would absolutely love to see something like dbexplorer implemented in a window pane on the side of the column ui.  Oh well...

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I would absolutely love to see something like dbexplorer implemented in a window pane on the side of the column ui.  Oh well...

I considered it before, but if I was going to add it would be later..

QUOTE (kerpondile @ Feb 8 2004, 09:02 PM)   
It seems that foo_ui_columns doesn't play songs at order. When you have selected another song (=some other song, which is not currently playing), and the current song ends it jumps to the song that is selected.

Is this intended? hope you understand...   

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Are you sure you dont just have follow cursor on?

With the default UI, the balloon tips pop up when the song is paused and unpaused as well.  Could you please consider adding this if it isn't too difficult?

weird thing is though, the i mainly use litestep and hotkeys to call dynamp commands to control foobar2k, but these aren't working with foo_columns.

my hotkey to toggle playlist still works though 

There seems to be a bug with adding or removing items from the playlist. When I add a lot of items, the scrollbar does not reflect the new list size. If I remove any entries above the file which is currently playing, it continues to repaint in the same spot. The list seems to correct itself if I scroll it, or if I do something which triggers a repaint.

- updated to 0.8 sdk, added some related features

I lööve the export/import thing

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- updated to 0.8 sdk, added some related features

in 0.8, if you select a few files and right click you get a sort option, it's not there...(with the plugin) 

I just tried to play a audio CD which made foobar2000 crash using ui_columns. There is no problem when using the default UI.

Regards,
The Link

Sorry for this stupid bugreport!

Here (http://www.beingalink.de/files/failure.txt) is the crashlog.

Furthermore here (http://www.beingalink.de/files/Clipboard01.png) a redraw bug when starting the UI.

My system: AthlonXP2800, WinXP SP1

Regards,
The Link

Bug:
When if maximized mode, hotkey actions: send to tray/restore from tray, restore windows to its original size.

A couple of wishes:
IMHO arranging PL tabs by using dragon drop could be more, than useful.

Arranging control buttons' position would be great, even though I'm not sure if it's easy to implement.

what do you think about Excel-like visualization of PL, when each element is rendered inside a table's cell?

Ok as for the crash, Im unconvinced its my problem but Ive worked around it anyway.

Basically as far as I could tell I was getting on_modified playlist notifications before I got the on_items_added notification. Which messed up the ui's display cache (which is needed for speed). Im guessing it is foo_freedb modifying the items in the on_items_added notification which was causing this..

Anyway it should be worked around, please redownload and try again..

What do you  mean, you want each "cell" rendered in a rectangle? I.e. a grid?

By the way it would be cool if one could could kill active playlists with the middle mouse button (atm one has to select another playlist before you can kill the wanted playlist).

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QUOTE (kerpondile @ Feb 8 2004, 09:02 PM)   
It seems that foo_ui_columns doesn't play songs at order. When you have selected another song (=some other song, which is not currently playing), and the current song ends it jumps to the song that is selected.

Is this intended? hope you understand...   

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Are you sure you dont just have follow cursor on?

That was it! thanks

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weird thing is though, the i mainly use litestep and hotkeys to call dynamp commands to control foobar2k, but these aren't working with foo_columns.

my hotkey to toggle playlist still works though 

Can you explain what exactly it is you are doing and how it is meant to work?

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What do you  mean, you want each "cell" rendered in a rectangle? I.e. a grid?

Yes, grid.
Pricelist-like (every second cell's background is different from the "main" color) background would be great too.

$if($strcmp($mod(%_playlist_number%,2),0),000000|555555|999999|FFFFFF, 000000|555555|FFFFFF|FFFFFF)

what i have setup are global hotkeys (not those set within foobar2k) which tell the litestep module 'dynamp.dll' to tell foobar2k to play, to pause, to skip tracks, to go back a track, etc ..

the thing is, none of these hotkeys are working with the columns plugin for foobar2k.
i don't know exactly what the plugin changes in foobar2k, it could be that the litestep plugin depends on some code in the default foobar interface to work.

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QUOTE (kerpondile @ Feb 8 2004, 09:02 PM)   
It seems that foo_ui_columns doesn't play songs at order. When you have selected another song (=some other song, which is not currently playing), and the current song ends it jumps to the song that is selected.

Is this intended? hope you understand...   

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Are you sure you dont just have follow cursor on?

That was it! thanks

It seems the problem has come back in beta8 :/

Where I should exactly disable follow cursor?

That sounds like this dynamp.dll uses window messages to pass commands to fb2k. Since there is no official API based on window messages, this problem will have to be solved by the developer of dynamp.dll.

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what i have setup are global hotkeys (not those set within foobar2k) which tell the litestep module 'dynamp.dll' to tell foobar2k to play, to pause, to skip tracks, to go back a track, etc ..

the thing is, none of these hotkeys are working with the columns plugin for foobar2k.
i don't know exactly what the plugin changes in foobar2k, it could be that the litestep plugin depends on some code in the default foobar interface to work.

That sounds like this dynamp.dll uses window messages to pass commands to fb2k. Since there is no official API based on window messages, this problem will have to be solved by the developer of dynamp.dll.

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Yes exactly.

A little space is kinda nice i think.

I added a bit of space for now in alpha 9, which btw is compiled with the 0.8 sdk, so you will have to move to 0.8 beta if you want to use alpha 9, sorry.

anyway, here's what you can use as a color string to have a different color for every other line :

Code: [Select]

$if($strcmp($mod(%_playlist_number%,2),0),000000|555555|999999|FFFFFF, 000000|555555|FFFFFF|FFFFFF)

this string just checks if the line number can be divide by 2 (then line_number mod 2 = 0), and if it is, it sets "999999" as the background color, otherwise it sets it to FFFFFF. Those colors are ugly, but it's just to give you an example ^^

I would suggest that it does not switch playist, rather that it locate the song in the current playlist... or is this controlled somewhere else new in the new betas?

(I think 0.7.7b did what I am requesting, not what I am describing.)

very nice setup, psynapse!

By the way it would be cool if one could could kill active playlists with the middle mouse button (atm one has to select another playlist before you can kill the wanted playlist).

BTW, I can't get right click on playlist tab - 'Load playlist...' to work. Works OK from Menu and works in default UI.

I LOVE this UI. Thanks musicmusic!

I think double clicking the status bar in foo_ui_columns runs the command "Playlist/Highlight now playing" (or whatever it is called exactly, I can't this check now).

my only little gripe is that at the moment there's no way to make a column fixed width.
it'd be great if those 2 columns could stay the same width when resizing the window

beta 1
- selection menu items in playlist context menu
- now playing context menu items in systray context menu
- fixed cannot delete active tab/playlist
- in tabs contextmenu, fixed "Load playlist", added "Save all playlists"
- extra space between playlist & statusbar should be fixed now also some statusbar sizing bugs causing wierdness when resizing
- fixed resource leak in main menu, also improved menu behaviour slightly
- fixed some other min/max related bugs
- minimium size of window is now set
- can use playlist as source for drag & drop operations via rightmouse button (no context menu as yet)
- use new 0.8 functions to process dropped files so can drop .urls etc now
- some improvements to rebar (set some minumim widths/heights, made playback buttons slightly smaller)
- fixed inaccuracy in seekbar
- double clicking the volume/selected tracks time does the same actios as in standard ui.
- option to switch playlist when dragging items over its tab
- when items dropped over a tab, they are added to that playlist

* the new drag & drop feels a bit too sensitive--ending up with a lot of accidently-copied songs at the bottom of my playlist; dunno, maybe it's just me

* right-aligned columns have no padding on the right, unlike left-aligned columns, which looks like 1 space (intentional?).

* the amount of space the volume gets in the status bar has always seemed a bit too much (same in default UI). Even the longest it can be--"-z10.00 dB" barely takes up half of that space (the same cannot be said for the 'Total time of selected tracks'). This matters most for those of us who use a long status bar formatting (i.e. %_path%). Could you shorten it a bit?

Thanks for reading, and keep up the good work, musicx2 :]

Thanks for reading, and keep up the good work, musicx2 :]

suicide: use 4 colour codes, with | in between them. the order is text, selected text, background, selected background.

1) When set to minimize to taskbar instead of system tray, Foobar will not be focused on currently playing track when minimized and restored.  It will instead be focused on the top of the playlist.

2) If Foobar is in fullscreen mode when the program is closed, it will not restore to fullscreen mode when restarted, but a window with the same dimensions as fullscreen mode.  The beta 1 release seems to have partially addressed this, as the window mode is identical to fullscreen mode after a close and launch.  Still, might be nice if this could be cleaned up that little extra bit.

There are some additional options I'd really love to see implemented in ui_columns.  Most of them are straight from the default UI.  They include:

1) Ability to select "Do/don't show "now playing" submenu in rightclick menu".  I like my menus to stay thin.

2) Along similar lines, ability to select "Do/don't show keyboard shortcuts in menus".  That thin menu thing again.

3) Ability to select "Do/don't show volume in status bar".

4) Ability to select from the other default system tray icons included in the foobar2000.exe.  I know you can get them out of the exe and select them as a custom icon, but it would be mighty nice if there were an easier option built right into the config menu.

Since these are all options in the default UI config, I wonder if it would make sense to allow ui_columns to use all default UI config settings that are not overridden by options in the ui_columns settings.  If this were possible, it could free up some of the space on the second configuration page.  There would be no need, for example, to duplicate the system tray settings.

Thanks for all the time and work!

PS:  Your link for alpha 8 is not quite correct.  It points to foo_ui_column_07.dll.  It needs to point to foo_ui_columns_07.dll.

Now that it's reached beta status

* would be great if menu toolbar behaved the same as the default UI--buttons actually sink in when clicked, and you can click-and-release the mouse to make a selection (rather than 1 click to drop down menu and a 2nd to select)

* there's an extra separator at the top of the context menu; doesn't appear in the default UI so I doubt it's my conext menu config

* Home/End keys should highlight the first and last items (respectively) in the playlist, rather than just scrolling up or down (unless this was intentional?); now that I mention it, the Pg Up/Down keys as well

* probably related to above, Shift+(Home/End/Pg Down/Pg Up) doesn't work; you added those keys for navigation in alpha 2, think you could do the same for playlist item selection? :]

* don't know if it's the UI which does it

(and this sounds like it might be a bit harder to implement), but think you could change the current behavior of making multiple selections? the current way, for example, is if you select a track, hold shift and move the selection frame up and back down, everything that it touched remains highlighted (this is the normal behavior in the default UI as well and it has always bugged me). I think it'd be better if it would remain highlighting only the items from the point where you first held shift to the current position of the selection frame. The only point of current way (that I can see, anyway; correct me if I'm wrong) is if you wish to highlight tracks above, and then in the same selection, highlight some below; I can't picture many people using this 'wiping' fashion normally (?). The whole reason I point this out is because it's annoying when you accidently highlight too many items, you try to move back, and those items remain highlighted (though I guess you can manually deselect them with Spacebar, but still).

On a related note, Shift+Click selections seem a bit unintuitive. For instance, select a track, hold Shift, click above that track, and then click another track above that last one-- instead of highlighting all tracks from the initial track to the last one, it deselects all below the 2nd-clicked track and highlights from that point to where you clicked. Also, if you did the opposite, (select track > hold shift > click above > click below initial track) it will select everything instead of deselecting all above the 2nd track, etc.--the two seem switched around. (Err.. I'm probably explaining too much--everyone probably already knows the behavior that I'm talking about, and if not, mess around w/ the Windows gui ;p).

* would be nice if CTRL+Click could deselect tracks (what Spacebar already does)

* any chance on configuring the width of the Playlist list?

* right-aligned columns have no padding on the right, unlike left-aligned columns, which looks like 1 space (intentional?).

* the amount of space the volume gets in the status bar has always seemed a bit too much (same in default UI). Even the longest it can be--"-z10.00 dB" barely takes up half of that space (the same cannot be said for the 'Total time of selected tracks'). This matters most for those of us who use a long status bar formatting (i.e. %_path%). Could you shorten it a bit?

Edit: deselecting all when clicking in empty background would be nice too :] (same as default UI)

Hello thread,

- Balloon tooltips aren't closed when a new tooltip opens. Each time I skip two or more tracks, the first tooltip stays open and I have to close all others by clicking on them. Of course, this only happens when I don't want the tooltips to stay open, the timeout works correctly.

- Trying to drag'n'drop files crashes fb2k.

- Don't know if this bug is the fault of fb2k itself, but when I let the UI sort by descending length using a custom spec of $num(%_length_seconds%,10) I get some slightly distorted sorting. Something like 8:02, 8:03, 8:01, 7:59, 7:58, 8:01, 7:57, etc. What's funny is, that it works flawlessly in ascending order...

- I'd like to see the above length column custom spec to be a default setting (fixes hour-long mixes being grouped with one-minute clips when sorting by length)

- I'd like to see $if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%) as standard setting for the track column (fixes songs with no tags showing up as blank lines)

- I, too, would like to have a standard (non-toolbar) menu. Or at least something that has the same look-and-feel to it.

- I'd like to have a visually "sunken" playlist list. Maybe with an option to open it on the right instead on the left, to give fb2k an IRC-client-ish look.

Thanks for reading, and keep up the good work, musicx2 :]

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2) If Foobar is in fullscreen mode when the program is closed, it will not restore to fullscreen mode when restarted, but a window with the same dimensions as fullscreen mode.  The beta 1 release seems to have partially addressed this, as the window mode is identical to fullscreen mode after a close and launch.  Still, might be nice if this could be cleaned up that little extra bit.

I hope it was addressed in current version as mentioned above.

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- Don't know if this bug is the fault of fb2k itself, but when I let the UI sort by descending length using a custom spec of $num(%_length_seconds%,10) I get some slightly distorted sorting. Something like 8:02, 8:03, 8:01, 7:59, 7:58, 8:01, 7:57, etc. What's funny is, that it works flawlessly in ascending order...

And none of the people requesting descending sorting noticed that  Fixed for next version.

- Post crash log somewhere

- What type of files are you trying to drop?

- When exactly does it crash (when you let go of the left mouse button)?

Impressive!
Two suggestions:
1. Middleclick on last playlist tab should hide playlist-tab-bar (only if deleting playlist on middleclick activated).
2. I don't know if it is possible, but clicking on "Playlist->Create new playlist" in menu should make either playlist tabs or playlist listbox visible (if not activated already).

Thanks for this great UI!

Drop-down menus has zero length (w2k issue AFAIK).

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Drop-down menus has zero length (w2k issue AFAIK).

There's a workaround isnt there? I dont know how to fix it, apparently you can use up/down keys anyway.

I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Right-aligned text in status bar no longer works properly in beta 2 or beta 3.
This is my status bar dislay using the default UI:

i've notice a strange bug though. not sure why i didn't notice this in earlier versions, but i occasionally change foobar2000's volume with shift+ctrl+up/down to change the main playback volume.

with the columns plugin though, this doesn't work 

also, i've noticed ctrl+page-up/down to cycle through playlist tabs isn't working either ..

(http://home.naver.com/slicepizza/Picture/121211.jpg)

bug? or my fault?

I couldn't shorten the hight of my foobar more than picture attached scince I installed foo ui columns beta 1 and above.
( Only when I used foo ui interface, in case of default user interface, fully resizable.)

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I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Can you redownload and tell me if its fixed ?

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I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Can you redownload and tell me if its fixed ?

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I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Can you redownload and tell me if its fixed ?

This is not fixed for me on my Win2K system.  My WinXP system never had the problem.

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I heard you just have to set the height or something.

Can you redownload and tell me if its fixed ?

It is not

    int height = uGetFontHeight((HFONT)uSendDlgItemMessage(wnd, IDC_ALIGNMENT, WM_GETFONT, 0, 0));
    uSendDlgItemMessage(wnd, IDC_ALIGNMENT, CB_SETITEMHEIGHT, 0, height);

I don't know, if I understand the problem correctly, but you can change the height of the drop-down via the resource editor in MSVC by clicking on the drop-down arrow.

New version uploaded, hopefully the playback order dropdown also works now under win2k.

The dropdowns in the options work for me, but the playback order dropdown still has the problem.

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The dropdowns in the options work for me, but the playback order dropdown still has the problem.

Can you redownload and try again, thanks.. 

(http://home.naver.com/slicepizza/Picture/121211.jpg)

First, i would like to say that you have made good job with this plugin!

However balloon tips doesn't seem to get dynamic data (ie "http track titles" etc.). This works perfectly with the standard gui.

My newest suggestion is for a menu-driven import/export of settings files (so you can switch quickly from a simple view

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My newest suggestion is for a menu-driven import/export of settings files (so you can switch quickly from a simple view

Does anyone feel like sharing their settings files then? I find ui_colums very useful, but I haven't been able to make an attractive set of layouts... 

The default UI has a keyboard shortcut for "[main] System/Show now playing" which allows you define a keyboard shortcut for the balloon tips. Could this possibly be added?

My newest suggestion is for a menu-driven import/export of settings files (so you can switch quickly from a simple view with only artist/title to a complex view with album, track number, format, RG info, etc.)

I feel this would be quite useful.

Done

Amazing! I don't know if you can change it, but there is a tiny bug in the main-menu: If you press a menu-button then change to another menu-button and click on that button to close the menu, it reopens instead of close.
Thank you for that exelent UI!

Also, a minor bug concerning the menu--if you move right into a subgroup and then press left, you'll move left to the next menu, when instead you should only move out of the subgroup.

A suggestion would be that if no vertical scroll bar exists but a horizontal one does, that the mouse wheel scroll the window horizontally.

edit2: is it possible to show/hide columns based on the playlist name?

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Done

I've had three or four requests in this thread now, and you've been very quick to implement every one of them. I just wanted to say thanks.

Nice work musicmusic 
I haven't really followed the development or used it before, but I tried beta 4 yesterday and got some ideas for a formatting.
My first problem was related to the "use custom colour spec for this column" feature. Am I right in assuming that you can't use variables defined in  the global string, to decide the color? At least I couldn't make that work...

Anyway, here is the result of me being bored  
Screenshot (http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~mortek/foobar2000/albCol.png)

Anyway, here is the result of me being bored 
Screenshot

Add "Auto-resize columns" mode.
For example, in some cases playlist might have too long titles, or too short "album" values. Current situation with a fixed length is not good for many situations.
What I'd liked to get:
-Column's width is automatically set equal to a width, equal to maximum displayed value. For example, if title column values are: my_song and my_very_favorite_song, column's title is automatically resized to show second title completely.
-If total text width exeeds playlist width (we don't need any horizontal scrollers, right?), some columns might be reduced in size. We might also add "don't reduce" in column's properties for those ones, which must always be displayed completely (i.e. playback time).
What do you think about this idea?

Another wish is simple: display hint for a complete line, not just a column. For example, when artist and title don't fit column's width, I'd liked to see artist-title at once...

if you need help in making more intuitive interface

hmm... Somewhere along the way the ellipsis ("...") got truncated to just ".." when the string does not fit (at least for me using Win2K with Tahoma 8 font).  This used to work.  BTW, there is actually an ellipsis character that could be used, rather than drawing 3 periods. I'm not sure if you are already using this, or which is easier.

Would it be possible to have the ellipsis truncate at a character boundary, instead of drawing part of the character that is truncated?

Also, on Win2K, the dragger thing on visualization toolbar is being partially overlaid by the visualization itself. I think the vis needs to be moved a pixel or two to the right. (Maybe the Playback Order drop down needs to be moved a bit as well. It is right against the dragger.)

I don't know why but the most current version of foo_columns will not load for me. All other versions work fine. Is it just me?

Just noticed a weird thing with foo_uui_columns 0.1 beta3 (didn't have time to update yet, I was about going to when I encountered this):

Foobar lost the playlist as is sometimes does, but that's not a big thing, as I make backups of the database, config file AND loaded playlists every so often.
So I reloaded the playlists from the backup playlist dir, and afterwards I loaded two of my "permanent" playlists. I moved the first to the left, but as soon as I tried to move the second to the left, foobar closed itself. I restarted foobar, tried again, same thing happened. I unloaded foo_ui_columns, restarted foobar, tried to move the playlists again, this time with succes. I reloaded foo_ui_columns, restarted foobar and voila, I could move the culprit playlist to and fro with out any hassle. I will update ui_columns to the latest version and try to reproduce.

Can't reproduce. What other plugins do you have loaded?

Illegal operation:
Code: C0000005h, flags: 00000000h, address: 00426B76h
Access violation, operation: read, address: 01D8E888h
Call path:
WinMain=>app_mainloop
This is the first crash logged by this instance.
Code bytes (00426B76h):
00426B36h:  00 A1 38 59 44 00 83 C4 10 3B C3 7C 20 8B 0C 86
00426B46h:  8B D0 EB 05 8B D1 8B 0C 8E 3B C8 75 F7 B9 28 59
00426B56h:  44 00 89 15 38 59 44 00 E8 92 AB 00 00 A1 38 1B
00426B66h:  44 00 83 F8 FF 74 16 8B 0C 86 8B D0 EB 05 8B D1
00426B76h:  8B 0C 8E 3B C8 75 F7 89 15 38 1B 44 00 8D 4D FC
00426B86h:  E8 8B F4 FD FF FF 75 0C 56 E8 0C 00 00 00 59 B3
00426B96h:  01 59 5E 8A C3 5B C9 C2 08 00 55 8B EC 83 EC 18
00426BA6h:  53 8A 1D 70 59 44 00 56 68 E0 AD 43 00 8D 4D E8
Stack (0012FD40h):
0012FD20h:  00D2F8D4 77FA88F0 77F521E0 0000005E
0012FD30h:  00D2D078 C0000005 00D2D054 00D2D064
0012FD40h:  0000000C 77D45F0E 00445954 0012FDD8
0012FD50h:  00F574F2 01CCE860 00000011 0012FE4C
0012FD60h:  00F571EB 00000000 FFFFFFFF 0012FD98
0012FD70h:  77D43A50 001003B8 00000020 001003B8
0012FD80h:  02010001 00F571EB DCBAABCD 00000000
0012FD90h:  0012FDE0 00F571EB 01CCE860 00000044
0012FDA0h:  00000044 00000000 00000256 0000000A
0012FDB0h:  00000004 00000234 00000010 00000006
0012FDC0h:  0000000D 00000011 0000000C 0012FE5C
0012FDD0h:  00F6368C 00000001 0012FE04 77D43A50
0012FDE0h:  001003B8 00000200 00000001 00100234
0012FDF0h:  00F571EB DCBAABCD 00000000 0012FE4C
0012FE00h:  00F571EB 0012FE6C 77D43B1F 00F571EB
0012FE10h:  001003B8 00000200 00000001 00100234
0012FE20h:  0012FF00 0012FEF8 006149D8 0012FEF8
0012FE30h:  00000000 00000001 00000014 00000001
0012FE40h:  00000000 00000000 00000010 00000000
0012FE50h:  00000000 0012FE20 0012F968 0012FEBC
Registers:
EAX: FFFFFFFE, EBX: 00000000, ECX: 0003000A, EDX: 0003000A
ESI: 01CCE860, EDI: 0044591C, EBP: 0012FD4C, ESP: 0012FD40
Crash location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h

Loaded modules:
foobar2000                       loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
ntdll                            loaded at 77F50000h - 77FF7000h
kernel32                         loaded at 77E60000h - 77F46000h
USER32                           loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
GDI32                            loaded at 77C70000h - 77CB0000h
ADVAPI32                         loaded at 77DD0000h - 77E5D000h
RPCRT4                           loaded at 78000000h - 78086000h
ole32                            loaded at 771B0000h - 772D1000h
COMCTL32                         loaded at 71950000h - 71A34000h
msvcrt                           loaded at 77C10000h - 77C63000h
SHLWAPI                          loaded at 70A70000h - 70AD5000h
utf8api                          loaded at 10000000h - 1000D000h
comdlg32                         loaded at 763B0000h - 763F5000h
SHELL32                          loaded at 773D0000h - 77BC2000h
foo_abx                          loaded at 008D0000h - 008DA000h
foo_ac3                          loaded at 008E0000h - 008F0000h
foo_albumlist                    loaded at 008F0000h - 008FA000h
foo_bitcompare                   loaded at 00900000h - 00908000h
foo_burninate                    loaded at 00910000h - 0091B000h
VERSION                          loaded at 77C00000h - 77C07000h
foo_cdda                         loaded at 00920000h - 0092E000h
foo_clienc                       loaded at 00930000h - 00944000h
foo_console                      loaded at 00950000h - 00958000h
foo_diskwriter                   loaded at 00960000h - 0096E000h
foo_dsp_crossfade                loaded at 00970000h - 00977000h
foo_dsp_crossfeed                loaded at 00980000h - 00986000h
foo_dsp_extra                    loaded at 00990000h - 009A5000h
foo_dsp_nogaps                   loaded at 009B0000h - 009B7000h
foo_dsp_pause                    loaded at 009C0000h - 009C7000h
foo_dsp_skip_silence             loaded at 009D0000h - 009D7000h
foo_dynamics                     loaded at 009E0000h - 009E7000h
foo_faac                         loaded at 009F0000h - 00A23000h
foo_freedb                       loaded at 00A30000h - 00A5E000h
WS2_32                           loaded at 71AB0000h - 71AC5000h
WS2HELP                          loaded at 71AA0000h - 71AA8000h
foo_history                      loaded at 00A60000h - 00A6E000h
foo_id3v2                        loaded at 00A70000h - 00A96000h
MSVCP60                          loaded at 55900000h - 55961000h
foo_input_std                    loaded at 00AA0000h - 00B39000h
MSACM32                          loaded at 77BE0000h - 77BF4000h
WINMM                            loaded at 76B40000h - 76B6C000h
foo_masstag                      loaded at 00BC0000h - 00BD0000h
foo_null                         loaded at 00BD0000h - 00BD7000h
foo_output_std                   loaded at 00BE0000h - 00BE9000h
foo_out_dsound_ex                loaded at 00BF0000h - 00BF9000h
DSOUND                           loaded at 73F10000h - 73F65000h
foo_out_ks                       loaded at 00C10000h - 00C1B000h
SETUPAPI                         loaded at 76670000h - 76757000h
foo_read_http                    loaded at 00C20000h - 00C29000h
foo_rgscan                       loaded at 00C30000h - 00C3B000h
foo_search_ex                    loaded at 00C40000h - 00C48000h
foo_shuffle                      loaded at 00C50000h - 00C5D000h
foo_toolame                      loaded at 00C60000h - 00C73000h
foo_ui_std                       loaded at 00C80000h - 00C97000h
foo_unpack                       loaded at 00CA0000h - 00CD1000h
OLEAUT32                         loaded at 77120000h - 771AB000h
foo_vis_manager                  loaded at 00CE0000h - 00CE8000h
foo_wma                          loaded at 00CF0000h - 00D09000h
WMVCore                          loaded at 08530000h - 0872D000h
WMASF                            loaded at 07260000h - 07299000h
foo_mpeg4u                       loaded at 00D10000h - 00D39000h
foo_stfu                         loaded at 00D40000h - 00D47000h
foo_addall                       loaded at 00D50000h - 00D56000h
MSVCR70                          loaded at 5D000000h - 5D04C000h
foo_audioscrobbler               loaded at 00D70000h - 00D92000h
LIBCURL                          loaded at 00DA0000h - 00DB9000h
foo_bluetooth_ctrl               loaded at 00DD0000h - 00DE1000h
MSVCP70                          loaded at 5D080000h - 5D0F8000h
foo_custom_sort                  loaded at 00DF0000h - 00DFA000h
foo_delete                       loaded at 00E00000h - 00E06000h
foo_infobox                      loaded at 00E10000h - 00E23000h
foo_nero                         loaded at 00E30000h - 00E40000h
MFC42                            loaded at 73DD0000h - 73EC2000h
foo_pl_hopper                    loaded at 00E40000h - 00E46000h
foo_quicktag                     loaded at 00E50000h - 00E5C000h
foo_setyear                      loaded at 00E60000h - 00E73000h
foo_syfm                         loaded at 00E80000h - 00E8A000h
foo_text                         loaded at 00E90000h - 00EA3000h
foo_tunes                        loaded at 00EB0000h - 00F00000h
uxtheme                          loaded at 5AD70000h - 5ADA4000h
foo_ui_columns                   loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
foo_web                          loaded at 01070000h - 01088000h
foo_write_http                   loaded at 01090000h - 010A1000h
foo_vorbisenc                    loaded at 010B0000h - 011AF000h
mswsock                          loaded at 71A50000h - 71A8B000h
DNSAPI                           loaded at 76F20000h - 76F45000h
winrnr                           loaded at 76FB0000h - 76FB7000h
WLDAP32                          loaded at 76F60000h - 76F8C000h
rasadhlp                         loaded at 76FC0000h - 76FC5000h
wshtcpip                         loaded at 71A90000h - 71A98000h
imagehlp                         loaded at 76C90000h - 76CB2000h
DBGHELP                          loaded at 6D510000h - 6D58D000h

Stack dump analysis:
Address: 77D45F0Eh, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Symbol: "SendMessageA" (+00000000h)
Address: 00445954h, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
Address: 00F574F2h, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 00F571EBh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 77D43A50h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Address: 00F571EBh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 00F571EBh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 00F6368Ch, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 77D43A50h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Address: 00F571EBh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 00F571EBh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 77D43B1Fh, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Address: 00F571EBh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 77D7390Ah, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Symbol: "CreateAcceleratorTableA" (+0000032Dh)
Address: 77D99B68h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Address: 77D43D79h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Symbol: "GetMessageW" (+00000125h)
Address: 00F571EBh, location: "foo_ui_columns", loaded at 00F50000h - 00F70000h
Address: 77D43A33h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Address: 77D4B1A9h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Symbol: "IsDialogMessageW" (+0000008Dh)
Address: 77D7390Ah, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Symbol: "CreateAcceleratorTableA" (+0000032Dh)
Address: 77D99B88h, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Address: 77D43DDFh, location: "USER32", loaded at 77D40000h - 77DCC000h
Symbol: "DispatchMessageW" (+0000000Bh)
Address: 100038ECh, location: "utf8api", loaded at 10000000h - 1000D000h
Symbol: "uDispatchMessage" (+0000000Ah)
Address: 0041161Bh, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
Address: 70A9F1ABh, location: "SHLWAPI", loaded at 70A70000h - 70AD5000h
Symbol: "Ordinal125" (+00000027h)
Address: 00410076h, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
Address: 00437A05h, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
Address: 00400000h, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
Address: 70A9F1ABh, location: "SHLWAPI", loaded at 70A70000h - 70AD5000h
Symbol: "Ordinal125" (+00000027h)
Address: 00437A30h, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
Address: 0043B160h, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h
Address: 77E814C7h, location: "kernel32", loaded at 77E60000h - 77F46000h
Symbol: "GetCurrentDirectoryW" (+00000044h)
Address: 70A9F1ABh, location: "SHLWAPI", loaded at 70A70000h - 70AD5000h
Symbol: "Ordinal125" (+00000027h)
Address: 77E94809h, location: "kernel32", loaded at 77E60000h - 77F46000h
Symbol: "SetThreadExecutionState" (+00000097h)
Address: 77E91210h, location: "kernel32", loaded at 77E60000h - 77F46000h
Symbol: "OpenConsoleW" (+0000EDBEh)
Address: 004378D1h, location: "foobar2000", loaded at 00400000h - 00451000h

Version info:
foobar2000 v0.8 beta 10
UNICODE

But now it doesn't seem foo_ui_columns related, because when I unload ALL plugins that aren't in the special setup, ie using the standard gui, I got the same problem: after deleting any playlist, I can not move any other playlist without foobar crashing on me...

If you continue to have problems without foo_ui_columns installed, start a new thread..

I re-installed foobar and re-installed foo_columns and it still won't load. Here is the error from the console.
INFO (CORE) : startup time: 1219 ms
ERROR (CORE) : Failed to load DLL: foo_ui_columns.dll, reason: Unable to load dll.

I'm using XP. It's strange but all earlier versions worked perfectly. Could you post a link with earlier versions?

Please try these builds and tell me which ones work:
Backed up build dated 15/02
Newly built build made from backed up source (beta 3, 19/02)
Newly built build from current source (post beta 4)

Finally, you are using current 0.8 final? What was the last version you used taht worked?

Well, every one of these builds work. Go figure! I'm back in action!
I do want to take a minute to thank you for responding so quickly to me. This is a great UI (I've tried 'em all).
Thanks again!

This bug is not related to foo_ui_columns. Get a fixed foobar2000.exe from here:

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This bug is not related to foo_ui_columns. Get a fixed foobar2000.exe from here:

Thanks, I gathered as much, I know, I should alway keep up to date ;-)
Works now (obviously!)

Well, every one of these builds work. Go figure! I'm back in action!
I do want to take a minute to thank you for responding so quickly to me. This is a great UI (I've tried 'em all).
Thanks again!

i've noticed strange behaviour with tab characters, as of beta 3.

for example, one of my colums shows track time, aligned to the right. in my formatting string i used to have |'s with a tab character before, to align that section to the left of the column.

what's odd is, i think the pipes are being intercepted by foo_ui_columns colour formatting, because depending on where i place the tab the pipes will either use highlighted track background colour, or not show at all.

i've tried with other characters actually, like : and such, with no success

When a playlist tab is focused, keyboard shortcut commands are executed twice.

nice work Musicmusic...

Observation, you know when your in 'No horizontal scrollbar mode'. resizing the columns (i.e. dragging them in the GUI) doesnt actually resize the data columns...

You cannot resize columns from the UI in this mode, as this would loose the accuracy of your ratios.

It should probably just not let you do that instead of the current behaviour. Or I could make it work, but then just dont resize columns when foobar window is small..

Thanks for the nice work, musicmusic.

I found a tiny bug with beta5.
ellipsis doesnt show up correctly when using 2bytes characters.

There appears to be a problem with exporting settings--custom sorting specs aren't saved. Unfortunately, doesn't appear that they were ever saved in previous versions either (tried both importing and searching old .fcs backups for sort specs in a hex editor).

Also, the horizontal scrolling (yes! thank you) moves in rather painfully small steps. Think this could be increased (~15 pixels instead of 3)?

About the new custom buttons bitmap behavior--very cool ;D

Edit: One more . Incorrect tooltips pop up if the window is horizontally displaced (i.e. scroll to the right). It'll pop up the tooltip for the field belonging to that position as if the window wasn't scrolled. Ex: move mouse to a field and "Some artist" pops up. Scroll window to right and "Some artist" pops up again with the mouse in the same spot, even though the mouse now hovers over "Some genre".

Thanks again :]

I find next bug:
Value of  "Use custom spec for sorting by column" not  exported or not imported.

I check this fields and place to its any string. Then export all (check "include main window..."), clear all and import last configuration.

In result I have checked fields, but they are empty.

I probably wouldn't be trying to resize the columns if it was possible to set some of the columns to use a fixed width.

For example I have a '#' column for track numbers on the far left hand side, and a 'Length' column on the far right.  These columns shouldn't really resize themselves in proportion to the window size. Because tracknumbers are usually only 2 chars (max) and length approx 6 chars (max) - Ideally an option to make them fixed width would be cool.

Whereas Albumname/trackname etc should be scalable in proportion to window size.

Hope you can decipher what i'm getting at, my brain hasn't quite woken up...

musicmusic, 10x for yr work. the plugin just rocks!!!!

what about an album list on the left side of the playlist window, draggable border and user defined font/background colors?

I would be just happy

thanks

You mean when you scroll with the wheel?

|Artist     Album       Title   Len  |  Genre   Date    ReplayGain
|------------------------------------|----------------------------
|                                    |
|                       *[Some Title]|         (off screen)
|                                    |
|<|[===============]               |>|

|Title  Len     Genre   Date    Repla|
|------------------------------------|
|                                    |
|[Some Title]           *            |
|                                    |
|<|             [===============]  |>|

It'd be great if one could middle-click a playlist in the playlist list to remove it.

How about ctrl+<scroll mouse wheel> to scroll horizontally like in Photoshop?

Also, I would like to be able to remove the total size of selected tracks.

Yes, but not particularly due to scrolling the wheel (just scrolling window left or right by any means will reproduce it). For example, [...]

My little sugestion is sort by click to header only selected strings, if  selection present, or sort all playlist in another case.

I still haven't had the time to read the entire thread, so please just ignore this if I has already been discussed.

As changing back and forth from this UI to the default one requires a restart, I got this idea. Would it be possible to add a button in for foo_ui_columns that would change the display window to a default one, using the default string? The reason I ask is because I think both UIs have their strengths and I would like to be able to use both of them. I have no problem with the rest of the UI provided by this plugin, features like click&drag tabs is very nice, so I'm only talking about the active window/playlist presentation. I don't know how much work this would involve, but at least to me it would be a great feature.

It'd be great if one could middle-click a playlist in the playlist list to remove it.

Oops, sorry, yea that would be nice. And does the "playlists autohide" work?

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I still haven't had the time to read the entire thread, so please just ignore this if I has already been discussed.

As changing back and forth from this UI to the default one requires a restart, I got this idea. Would it be possible to add a button in for foo_ui_columns that would change the display window to a default one, using the default string? The reason I ask is because I think both UIs have their strengths and I would like to be able to use both of them. I have no problem with the rest of the UI provided by this plugin, features like click&drag tabs is very nice, so I'm only talking about the active window/playlist presentation. I don't know how much work this would involve, but at least to me it would be a great feature.

If you want it to look like the standard ui, you can hide the header, switch on "no horizontal scrolling" mode, and reduce the amount of columns to one (and copy + paste your string into that column).

Im not going to implement anything that will temporarily change appearance to standard ui-like if that's what you are asking.

Yes, that was what I was asking, but after reading your answer I think this is what I should have asked:
Would you consider adding an easy way to switch configs (easier than the import feature in preferences)? Just like foo_syfm works, but in this case switching between *.fcs files found in some default directory.

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Yes, that was what I was asking, but after reading your answer I think this is what I should have asked:
Would you consider adding an easy way to switch configs (easier than the import feature in preferences)? Just like foo_syfm works, but in this case switching between *.fcs files found in some default directory.

Ok, it was requested a couple times, so I'll see what I can do..

Where exactly would you want this? In the main UI or prefs? Or if you want it exactly like foo_syfm I'll go install it and take a look..

$if2($cut(%__replaygain_album_gain%,5)'dB','N/A'))

CODE 
$if2($cut(%__replaygain_album_gain%,5)'dB','N/A'))

$cut($if3(%__REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN%,%__REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN%,'N/A '),5)dB

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How about ctrl+<scroll mouse wheel> to scroll horizontally like in Photoshop?

Also, I would like to be able to remove the total size of selected tracks.

Ok, noted.

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It'd be great if one could middle-click a playlist in the playlist list to remove it.

I didnt do that because I still had intellipoint 4 installed in those days, and i was used to the autoscroll behaviour which seems to have gone away with intellipoint 5..

In any case, I'm not bothered, so Ill expand the current options to work with the "playlist list".

Ok I hope this is a stupid, simple question.  With the default UI, when I add files by drag and drop from explorer, they show up highlighted in foobar.  For the life of me I can't find an option to get the same behavior with columns enabled.  When tracks are added via the albumlist, though, they are still immediately given focus in the columns ui.  There must be some setting I just can't find... any ideas?

Newly noted bug:

If ui_columns is set to fullscreen mode, minimized, close, and restarted, it will not be relaunched in fullscreen mode.  Minimizing to system tray or taskbar both exhibit this behavior.

This behavior does not occur in the default UI.

would it be possible to add in a checkbox to disable showing the "total time of selected tracks" like the default UI has?  i see there is one to disable showing the volume, but i can't seem to get rid of the total track time in the foo_columns configuration.

It is possible to cram a tag guessing script into the "global" string, but it is not really a global string. It is merely prepended to the title formatting code for each column, so it will be executed once for each column script. (Hmm, and I think once again for each column's color string as well.)

It is a convenient feature, but if you want the fastest execution, it would be best to use guessing code which is specific to each tag, or arrange the guessing like so:

Title column script....

Simple: $if2(%title%,%_filename%)

Complicated: $if2(%title%,

tag guessing code for title only)

Hmm, actually... I have no idea if that will be faster or not. For all I know, the scripting engine has to parse that code anyway to skip over it.

No, there is no setting. I will change this behaviour for the next version.

foo_columns.dll works fine in my XP system. It exceed all my requirement. I have no comment but thanks musicmusic!

I'd just like to drop in and say, "Nice work on this plugin."  It keeps the default UI's focus on the playlist but manages to be better.

Thanks for continuing to improve the plugin, it is fantastic.

bug: the status bar font colour is always black even if the system colour is different. it can be altered using tagz though.

request: an option to disable the mouseover effect on the column titles.

thanks.

The implementation and behavior of the global string was already described by musicmusic, earlier in the topic.

It is possible to require that the global script output in a format that can be parsed into a list of strings that can be passed as the extras parameter to each of the other formatting calls for that row. The only problem is deciding on a separator character for the script to emit in place of null.

Input would be blah=something(separator)blah=something, etc. They would be accessible in the other scripts as %_blah%, or extra("blah") in the new script format.

Just wondering if it was possible (or whether you are planning to make possible) a function to allow the column width settings to have a minimum or maximum value.

I like having the 'No Horizontal scrollbar mode' checked so that the window space is used effieciently.  But there are some columns that I don't necessily want expanded to the fill the space (eg playlist number) nor shrunk (eg Trackratings).

A maximum column width or minimum column width would be very handy.

Btw, still loving this plug-in! 

Hey musicmusic, just a small bug report.

1) Reserved width for hidden columns doesn't disappear unless the window is resized.
2) Could you add another pixel of padding to the left in the staus bar? (I think it should be two)

Any way to set the visualization color to system default?  For a person (like me) who can't make his mind on which Windows visual style to use it's a pain in the ass to change the visualization color manually all the time.

Thanks for the great UI, as soon as you implement that I'll finally make it REALLY my default UI

OK I know this is probably impossible, but my one-and-only feature request for this already wonderful UI would be the ability to click-to-edit tags as and where they are displayed in column entries. Like iTunes or renaming in regular windows explorer I mean. Alternatively, an 'edit' mode to tab through displayed tags...
Wishful thinking I guess, but as far as my simple wants go that would make this the perfect UI.
Anyway, love your work musicmusic.  

PS has there been a change in the spacing between columns somewhere along the line? Is there more of a gap now or am I imagining things?

beta 5 is very very nice ... and fixes some a very annoying bug with the default interface ( not being able to scroll up a list while dragging item(s) )

I have one request that would make your ui a killer one ...

add a new "bar area" (same playback, seek, etc.) and call it "custom commands" (or whatever your imagination will dictate to you). Then in the configuration, offer to the user the possibility to drop in "commands" that will become a button in this custom commands bar (associated with a default icon bmp or a custom one selected by the user)

I hope my explainations are clear .. Ive been waiting for this kind of customization a long time ago but its not coming from the default ui so lets add it in a 3rd party ui

thanks for your efforts,
  nIRV

p.s. where can I find custom string formats, Ive seen a couple of screenshot and thats all

one more request in two parts that would be very nice (I'm enjoying customizing this ui, thanks)

1) make it possible to select the height of one row

to

2) make it possible to bitblt some predefined bitmaps ... here's how I think it could work

You have a list where you can insert bitmaps with an ID or name (much like resource file .. and exactly like your global strings except its bitmaps and a non-editable reference) ... then you make a function like $bitblt or whatever name ...

$bitblt(%my_bitmap_5stars%,center,center)

where the two last center center represent the vertical and horizontal align within the column ...

maybe you could add an option to say weither its a titled background, a stretched background, or an image , then the result could be considered as a background image with the possibility to overwrite text on top of it ... or start the text after the image ...

imagine a column for 1-2-3-4-5 stars with cool bitmaps instead of text ... and a column for media type with the nice icons from 0.8 ... sky's the limit

Firstly, I'd say I like this UI, it's cool and I want it to get better.

Here are the bugs I discovered (in 0.1 beta 5 build 2):

- re-enabled toolbars don't appear at their previous place.

- when 'no horizontal scrollbar mode' is enabled columns' widths are no more resizable one by one

- if horizontal scrollbar was on the screen and 'no horizontal scrollbar mode' was disabled, and then you enable it, this scrollbar remains on the screen, even if you resize the window after that.

- there's no need in 'only when text is clipped' flag to be available if 'enable tooltips' flag isn't checked. make it gray then

- 'show ellipsis when string does not fit' - when the state of the flag changes, it immediatly applies only to currently playing item, other items change only when focus is set on them (or by some other reason such as resizing fb2k window)

- have more built-in icons, plugin can't import fb2k icons from foo_ui_std

- have the option of whether to show millisecs in selected tracks' time in status bar or not

First, is the ability to enable/disable columns. AFAIK it's not possible at the moment, only deleting them is. In iTunes you can right click the column name to do this, a nice touch, but an option in preferences would do. The real advantage as I see it, is that you

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First, is the ability to enable/disable columns. AFAIK it's not possible at the moment, only deleting them is. In iTunes you can right click the column name to do this, a nice touch, but an option in preferences would do. The real advantage as I see it, is that you

This can be done by using the playlist filters in the preferences menu. Just pick "show only on playlists:" and then leave the field empty.

I have some requests/ideas, and two of them might seem like copying iTunes, but that's only coincidence (I swear I thought of them before I tried iTunes for the first time a couple of days ago  ).

First, is the ability to enable/disable columns. AFAIK it's not possible at the moment, only deleting them is. In iTunes you can right click the column name to do this, a nice touch, but an option in preferences would do. The real advantage as I see it, is that you can make one extensive config that can easily be modified according to current needs.

Second, is an album list as seen in iTunes. I kind of like that approach, but a standard one would do (both?  ). What I would like to see above all is this done as a split view with the playlist. I'm not really that fond of all the pop-up plugin windows, hence my request here...

Third, a small area that can display info about the current track configured with TAGZ. Support for albumart would be great.


Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the next version, and I'm not at all expecting any of these requests to make it into it by then.

Thanks, musicmusic!

I also noticed this: I have many playlists loaded, and sometimes a tooltip appears, which shows album, that is present in playlist that is not currently active. This tooltip appears when any playlist is active. All tooltips are disabled. Very strange. But I can't post screenshot for now...

After using your ui for some time, I noticed two things that are irritating me slightly

a) when you drag songs to new tabs, it auto-focuses to this new tab ... there should be an option to disable that (maybe there is but I searched a little bit ... at 4 in the morning ... sleepy ...  )

b) when you drag songs to new tabs, and switch to the new tab, the list should scroll to the new songs _and_ the selection should change to the new songs added, please

except those two things, I found this ui to be very very nice (I repeat myself)

oh,

- when you right drag items to new tabs, you only have the option to copy to the new playlist ... in 0.8 official ui, there's also a very useful (copy and erase from current playlist ... a "move items' instead of copying)

- when you dbl-click on the tab region, it should create a new playlist

bouh, that's it
  nIRV

Perhaps someone could start a thread with formatting files for this GUI and/or a section at http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/ (http://pelit.koillismaa.fi/fb2k/) could be made?

an option to disable the automatic switch to new playlist when you drag items in it... (last time I wasnt clear enough,  I mean that once you dropped the files, I dont want it to jump in the new playlist, I still want to browse my main playlist and drop other stuff to other playlists ... thats what I meant)

$get(BLUE)%_LENGTH%

$puts(BLUE,ff6600|ff6600)        
$puts(BLACK,000000|000000)       
$puts(WHITE,FFFFFF|FFFFFF)       
..and so on

BLUE=$rgb(0,0,255) (in global)

%_BLUE%%_LENGTH%

My main request is to use stable sorting algorithm for playlists. I mean, that after sorting with one field and then with other, the first field shoud remain with the same order where the other filed has the same value.

Also can you make it optional to have ctrl the same as it was, and make alt+left click for drag and drop?

ctrl+left click for multi select is second nature for me.

Oh... the HORROR! [...]

     FF0000|FFFF77   %_LENGTH%       

$rgb(44,55,ff)%_LENGTH%

%artist% %album% $if2($num(%tracknumber%,2),%_filename%)

Ok, i'm trying this on the time field...

this does nothing but outfut it as it is, no good for colors...


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     FF0000|FFFF77   %_LENGTH%       

 those are supposed to be in the quote, damned firefox
this seems to work fine

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$rgb(44,55,ff)%_LENGTH%

i wish i could do VAR=somecolor so i could use them globaly and in an easy way

I find bug in last version (beta 6).

When "Enable middle clicking to delete playlist" is checked - double left clicking also delete playlist. It is very bad.

Could you also put system default background, selected item frame and playlist sidebar color (same as background) colours to custom colors?

This plugin just gets better and better with every release, keep up the great work!

Ok, i'm currently using this string to sort my playlist

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%artist% %album% $if2($num(%tracknumber%,2),%_filename%)

and it works great that way, so i thought i'de add it to the custom column sorting thingy, but for some reason the tracknumbers don't get sorted, and no, it's not that i'm missing tracknumber tags 

any idea on what it's causing it to missbehave ?

as of the second option, I dont see what would be the use to spend some times to enable this kind of behaviour since you can deal with horizontal scrollbars and place the most important columns at the beginning ... the only situation where it could be cool is when you have the "auto-stretch" feature and you could set an option in the column like "dont show until width of window equals or go beyond X px"

But it isnt ideal, I agree. Unless the colour code thing is changed, I may just make an option so you can toggle between old/new behaviour.

Works fine here. Either you didnt check the "use custom sort" box, or you have file names which do not have zeropadded tracknumbers at the beginning of them, or you didnt apply changes/exit prefs page first, or something like that.

My main request is to use stable sorting algorithm for playlists. I mean, that after sorting with one field and then with other, the first field shoud remain with the same order where the other filed has the same value.

Secondly. Provide a mechanism to automatically enable/disable columns depending on the width of the main foobar2000 window. For example most of the time i have a small windows with just 3 columns (track num, title and length). But if I maximise foobar2000 i'd like to see other colums for example artist, album and format etc.
This is when the automatic column enabler kicks in and shows appropriate fields.

Is this do-able? Or is it going to make ui_columns even more complex?

Cheers and good work by the way!

it's really strange, because, like i said, the "sort by ..." in the menu works with that very same string... i'm baffled
[...]

i've really tested this out just to make sure i don't do any foolish mistake, so i'm confident that it's nothing like leaving out a checkbox or anything.

but anyway, nothing to loose sleep over, it just surprises me

EDIT: maybe ul a config file would help... i'll do it later if you want
pm me your email or something

just a request,

is there any way of getting the current playing track to show up in bold and a color?

i'm using %_isplaying% and red, it just doesn't stand out

Regards
AMED

I'm new to foobar.. and ui_columns.  I searched hard for this, so apologies in advance if it's already been asked.

I have a considerable number of tracks with missing tags.  i.e., Title, album, etc...

I setup the corresponding column to display a different color if a tag is missing.  It works perfectly for both selected and non-selected tracks.  However, when I play the track, the columns with the custom colors don't display the correct colors.  That is, on my setup the columns without the custom color display a darker grey backgroun, but the columns with it displays white (which is my custom background color of non-selected).

What am I missing?

One suggestion ....

Please integrate the DB explorer just as the playlist switcher is .. It would be perfect. The only reason i did not switch to UI columns is that I use the album list (the new one in V0.8) on the left side of my screen and I can't resize it (Width) because of the buttons so it does not give enough room to the playlist switcher + the playlists themselfes on the right side of the screen.

It would be nice to see everything integrated with resizing options. (.. and a single click in the album list would refresh, let's say the "default" playlist).

Adding a search engine in this integrated interface would make it perfect IMHO.

[span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%']
BTW I have noticed a small bug: when you use the autoresize feature, it is still allowed to resize the columns headers (with no effect which is "normal" but creates a gap between column headers and the columns).[/span]

$if(%_isplaying%,do this,otherwise do this) should be enough, and will work regardless of formatting or tagging.

If I understood you correctly, maybe you have some $if(%_isplaying%...) somewhere. Or maybe your string is in incorrect format.

musicmusic:
ok. i've just ul it to the config thread

Erm, you've got a missing $ sign

Just noticed that ctrl+clicking a track doesn't do anything... Any chance of getting that fixed?

Hi  musicmusic, it's great a new version of beta6 released but it's regreted that can not be download. Is there other download site?

and I suggest you post a new thread of foo_columns, so that you can edit it to add link to newest version.

Just noticed that ctrl+clicking a track doesn't do anything... Any chance of getting that fixed?

I'm having the same problem. Holding down the Ctrl key doesn't allow multiple selections.

I can't import or export with new beta 7!!!
Under columns the import & export button don't work!

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Neksus

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I can't import or export with new beta 7!!!
Under columns the import & export button don't work!

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Neksus

Oops forgot to remove them

Try the ones on the main config page

Jeps I found them!!
But:
And when importing from main setting page it always sets Use old style = on in Globals

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Neksus

musicmusic, thanks again for your great job.
The new version is almost as ideal as I want. 

However, there is one problem with beta 7 (beta 6 as well) with multibytes characters.
When using a color code indicator (, $char(3) or $rgb()) just after
multibytes characters in Display strings, color codes dont work correctly.
Although I dont know if its because of your fault, I hope this can be fixed.

FF0000脆脝00FF00脰脙0000FFblah

What's doing option "enble autohide plalists" ? I think it hide or "open" window with playlists, right  ? so why in my foobar doesn't work ? or i'm wrong and this option is doing something alse

ps sorry for my english , I hope You understand what i wrote

I'm a confused. If i download Beta7 and copy it to my component folder, Foobar says it's beta6.


Foobar 0.8.1 b2

I tried

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FF0000脆脝00FF00脰脙0000FFblah

but it worked correctly.

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I tried

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FF0000脆脝00FF00脰脙0000FFblah

but it worked correctly.

Hrm, that's weird...
Even your sample string didn't work here.
I've tested that on the default settings and I didn't use any global variables on it, but it still shows like this
[Screen Shot] (http://foobar.s53.xrea.com/up/files/up023.png)

I'm using it with v0.8 on win2k sp4 Japanese.
The components I'm using with Columns UI are only
foo_id3v2.dll foo_input_std.dll foo_out_dsound_ex.dll.

Anyway, I uploaded the fcs file here (http://foobar.s53.xrea.com/up/files/up024.fcs).

Have you turned of Old Style Global String?
Have you remembered to get the new version (he fixed some errors short time after release)?

- can double click on plist divider to hide/show it

- can no longer resize columns in auto sizing mode

You mean you can't access my website? I dont have anywhere to mirror it, maybe I could upload it to the third party website, or spase could mirror it on his columns fcs website when its done (if you could, spase, thanks)

The official release is always at the same link, and well the webpage is supposed to do what you suggest (I realise you probably cant access it, however).

This is by far my favorite UI -- Thanks so much for making it.

I still have a small issue with ctrl+clicking that bugs me, however.  In the default UI, if you make a large selection (an album for example), then ctrl+click something later in the playlist to select it, then shift+click another file beyond that, it'll highlight everything between the ctrl+click and the shift+click without losing any other items you've selected.

In foo_ui_columns, any other selections are lost.  Could you possibly add this feature in the next release?  It's something I use quite often, for replaygain selections, for example.

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I tried

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FF0000脆脝00FF00脰脙0000FFblah

but it worked correctly.

Hrm, that's weird...
Even your sample string didn't work here.
I've tested that on the default settings and I didn't use any global variables on it, but it still shows like this
[Screen Shot] (http://foobar.s53.xrea.com/up/files/up023.png)

I'm using it with v0.8 on win2k sp4 Japanese.
The components I'm using with Columns UI are only
foo_id3v2.dll foo_input_std.dll foo_out_dsound_ex.dll.

Anyway, I uploaded the fcs file here (http://foobar.s53.xrea.com/up/files/up024.fcs).

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- can no longer resize columns in auto sizing mode

Can you disable the mouse cursor changing when hovering over the column seperators?

Anyway, your fcs file crashes here, this bug (with zerolength strings) is fixed if you redownload, thanks.

It works fine here: link (http://members.lycos.co.uk/musicf/colour.PNG)

Image from your fcs file:

Here is a mirror!!

koach:

From your screenshot, I think I can see what is going on.

Can you try adding a few extra characters (five or so at the end)?

e.g. $char(3)FF0000$char(3)脆脝$char(3)00FF00$char(3)脰脙$char(3)0000FF$char(3)blahbghbjgv

and if the result is different, post a screenshot. Thanks.

I don't know then. From your screenshot, I think an extra char 3 is getting in there there somehow, and you've also got one too many squares..

Does it work correctly with the standard ui?

I think I found the bug, thanks. Please re-download and try again, I bumped the version to beta 8 since I also fixed resizing columns in non-autoresizing mode.

I think I found the bug, thanks. Please re-download and try again, I bumped the version to beta 8 since I also fixed resizing columns in non-autoresizing mode.

Here is a mirror!!
UI Columns 0.1 Beta 7 (http://www.neksus.dk/foobar/foo_ui_columns.dll)

It is mine!
There is also a link on my site!

My UI Formatting Strings (and download mirror) (http://www.neksus.dk/en/foobar.php)

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bug: the ctrl+left mouse work well for selecting but you cannot deselect an already selected item ... ... did I miss on select somewhere?

Only one request: Can you make every playlist save it's own column-widths? Of course that can't work with auto-resizing enabeled. I don't know if this is possible, cause problems or makes playlist-switching extremely slow, but at the moment I have to resize most colums if I change the playlist.

@musicmusic: My first post in this thread so I'd like to take this opportunity to compliment you for your great work on this component.

A small bug report (0.1 beta 8):
"Enable double clicking to rename playlists" only works when "Enable middle/double clicking to add playlists" is enabled.

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bug: the ctrl+left mouse work well for selecting but you cannot deselect an already selected item ... ... did I miss on select somewhere?

IIRC musicmusic said it's intended to be that way

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...a small area that can display info about the current track configured with TAGZ. Support for albumart would be great.

Yes, I'll see after 0.1. I dunno about "small area that can display info about the current track configured with TAGZ.", sounds like status bar to me..

...
- add buttons to toolbar for 'Stop after current' and 'Follow cursor' (taken from foo_tunes)--another convenience and a great alternative to going to the menu to check the status of these often-used commands (on a related note, a button for switching between Track Gain, Album Gain and disable ReplayGain)
...

I think it's bothering (ctrl+left click behaviour) because it's been like this for ... centuries ...  no but nevertheless it happens that sometimes you miss click an item and you dont really want to redo all your selection for one mouse error ...

Bugs:
- with custom buttons, the documnetation says the top-left pixel is for the transparent colour, when it's actually the bottom-left

- in the status bar, the width of 'Show selected tracks length' changes depending on whether the volume is shown (could very well be intentional and ignore if so) [pic (http://student.ucr.edu/~hnguy008/foo_ui_columns-002.png)]

Suggestions:
- the current order of checkboxes in the Columns conifg page is:
[ ] Show column [ ] Use custom sort spec [ ] Use custom colour spec
while the order of tabs is:
[ Display ][ Colour ][ Sort ]
could you change the order of the tabs to match the checkboxes (or vice versa) so that the two are consistent?

- support for a standard menu like default UI (not that anything's wrong with current buttons, but would be a nice addition if it's not too hard to implement)

- ability to lock a column's width (would be handy so you don't accidently resize columns such as dividers, etc.)

- support for ordering columns by dragging (in both Columns config page and UI)--convenient alternative to the Up/Down buttons

- have status bar show descriptions of highlighted menu commands (recently (?) added to default UI)

- remove the extra 5-pixel padding from the right of toolbar buttons (most evident when using custom buttons) [red arrow in this (http://student.ucr.edu/~hnguy008/foo_ui_columns-003.png) pic]

- if possible, change the background color of the seekbar to match the toolbar background [blue arrow in same (http://student.ucr.edu/~hnguy008/foo_ui_columns-003.png) pic]

- add tooltips for the playback buttons

- add buttons to toolbar for 'Stop after current' and 'Follow cursor' (taken from foo_tunes)--another convenience and a great alternative to going to the menu to check the status of these often-used commands (on a related note, a button for switching between Track Gain, Album Gain and disable ReplayGain)

- possibly not even possible and definately post-0.1 would be support of $crlf() in the playlist (these would make excellent album dividers--probably a dream request right up there with multiple fonts/bolding in playlist)

is this still very buggy or pretty stable?

btw do you have to use strings for everything? or is there an ez way for ppl to just create columns and such

When choosing "sort selection only when clicking header" it doesn't sort anything when there is only one file selected (obviously). Could you make it so that when this is the case, it acts like if there was no selection made, ie, sort all files.

In the right-mouse menu where you can en/disable the columns, can you move the bottom bit where "preferences" and "edit this column" reside up, I got so (too) many columns that I have to scroll all the way down every time I want to make a simple change.

I'd say leave the alt-selection thingie for those who don't care about changeing their behaviour patterns 

musicmusic,

When double clicking the sidebar playlist seperator, instead of toggling between enable/disable can you change it so it toggles between the minimised width (probably 0) and the last width?

Reason being at present: doubleclick to minimise then you can't resize the sidebar width.

cheers...

musicmusic: what all info is saved in the .fcs file besides just the column string?  Anything?

CONFIG_COLUMN,
   CONFIG_USE_GLOBAL,
   CONFIG_GLOBAL,
   CONFIG_COLOUR,
   CONFIG_SHOW_HEADER,
   CONFIG_SHOW_PLIST,
   CONFIG_SHOW_TABS,
   CONFIG_COLOUR_BACK,
   CONFIG_COLOUR_FRAME,
   CONFIG_COLOUR_PLIST_FORE,
   CONFIG_COLOUR_PLIST_BACK,
   CONFIG_COLOUR_VIS_FORE,
   CONFIG_COLOUR_VIS_BACK,
   CONFIG_FONT_PLAYLIST,
   CONFIG_FONT_HEADER,
   CONFIG_FONT_STATUS,
   CONFIG_FONT_PLIST,
   CONFIG_FB2K_STATUS,
   CONFIG_FB2K_SYSTRAY,
   CONFIG_FB2K_WTITLE,

   /*v2*/
   CONFIG_NOHSCROLL,
   CONFIG_USE_GLOBAL_SORT,
   CONFIG_HEIGHT,
   CONFIG_PLHEIGHT,

   /*v3*/
   CONFIG_USE_OLD_GLOBAL,

FILE "test.mp4" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 54:37:00

ohh good

one thing (last time I tried with b8 it didnt work) , could you enable shift+click on the seekbar to behave like the standard ui (i.e. instant seek)

and, when you wheel-click the seek region, it's doing something weird ... not happening with the standard ui ...

thanks again, your work is very appreciated

nIRV

RC1 Bug Report: Seekbar doesn't work for files that are 54:37mins and longer. Tested in the following manner:

1) Test file: A Nero Digital movie containing an AAC audio stream that is 1:34:13 hours.

2) Playback is fine but realised seeking doesn't work.

3) Tried default UI - Seeking works.

4) Tried columns UI beta 8 - Seeking works.

5) Created a cuesheet in this format:

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FILE "test.mp4" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 54:37:00

6) By trial & error, found that seeking for TRACK 01 fails at 54:37.

Problem is that I am unable to reproduce using a 'real' audio file, as opposed to an audio stream in a movie (don't have an audio file that long as I am a single track guy ).

Despite this, great work with columns UI

I've lost my 'B' (http://people.smartchat.net.au/~carlodim/statusbar.png) 

enable dragging of tracks off of playlist to folder copies the files to that folder, as in default ui:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=201420 (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20554&view=findpost&p=201420)

how would i add albumlist to the side or explorer?
also how would i add a column to show time elapsed?

[%_TIME_ELAPSED% / ]%_LENGTH%

%_TIME_ELAPSED%

$if2(%_TIME_ELAPSED%,%_LENGTH%)

Neksus, can you add 'VA' as second various artist indicator to your azrael theme? (V.A. is already there, but i dont use that)
and if it is in various artist mode, is it supposed to show the album name?
Because it showed me only artist and title so far

I'd like to see ctrl+a support in the config page, as the formatting strings tend to get bit long and as I edit them always in TextPad I need to copy-paste them all the time.

musicmusic: request please:

enable dragging of tracks off of playlist to folder copies the files to that folder, as in default ui:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=201420 (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20554&view=findpost&p=201420)

how would i add albumlist to the side or explorer?

i have that same code for the length column but for some reason it doesnt display elapsed time

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Neksus, can you add 'VA' as second various artist indicator to your azrael theme? (V.A. is already there, but i dont use that)
and if it is in various artist mode, is it supposed to show the album name?
Because it showed me only artist and title so far

My formatting string is made to work best when people have tags!
It does not guess anything and it never will so if there's no album tag it does not display a directory name or something else!
Use various tag as Various Artist Identifier!
Just mark the album in question in foobar2000 and add the tag various and set the value to anything!

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My formatting string is made to work best when people have tags!
It does not guess anything and it never will so if there's no album tag it does not display a directory name or something else!
Use various tag as Various Artist Identifier!
Just mark the album in question in foobar2000 and add the tag various and set the value to anything!

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My formatting string is made to work best when people have tags!
It does not guess anything and it never will so if there's no album tag it does not display a directory name or something else!
Use various tag as Various Artist Identifier!
Just mark the album in question in foobar2000 and add the tag various and set the value to anything!

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thats ok for me
my only problem left is that your theme does not work correctly when my track fields are like this: 01/10, 02/10, ... instead of just 01, 02, ...
is it possible that 01/10,... tracks will also work?

i have a request for you:


1. can you make in azrael sepparate columns for artis and albums ?
2. can you not change colors if i have or not track;s numbers ?


thank's

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i have a request for you:


1. can you make in azrael sepparate columns for artis and albums ?
2. can you not change colors if i have or not track;s numbers ?


thank's

1) Azrael 1.x was like this
see here Old Versions (http://www.neksus.dk/oldfoobar.shtml)
2) ?? What do you mean?

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i have a request for you:


1. can you make in azrael sepparate columns for artis and albums ?
2. can you not change colors if i have or not track;s numbers ?


thank's

1) Azrael 1.x was like this
see here Old Versions (http://www.neksus.dk/oldfoobar.shtml)
2) ?? What do you mean?

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i mean, that, if music has a track number, the colors of that track is changing.... so, i want, if you can to modify the azrael in order not to change colors...

well according to ndrake, albumlist has its own window
maybe you could clarify that?

well according to ndrake, albumlist has its own window
maybe you could clarify that?

rc1 is nice work!
musicmusic,
once again I'm asking you to make toolbars remember their positions after re-enabling them
and also make seekbar if dragged too far from it to return back (not only ESC key). emm, I hope you understand what I'm saying. It is done in this way in default UI
thanx for the great ui!

question:

is there any possiblity to control content of tooltips in foo_ui ?

i tried to find information about it in the thread, but couldn't find any info on that in the changelogs, so:

was the problem that colour-codes dont work in global strings fixed? (i mean, fixed without using the old(slow) method of parsing global strings). That is the only single thing which keeps me back from switching to ui_columns.

- Lyx

http://columns.outerspase.net (http://columns.outerspase.net) is time-outing on me right now

It is possible that my code is the one which is buggy! But it's way beyond my abilities to check this, sorry.

http://columns.outerspase.net (http://columns.outerspase.net) is time-outing on me right now

i just wanted to say that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PLUGIN!!!

2 questions:

what is newer b8 or RC1 ?
where can i find custom buttons ?

look how pretty it is:

foobar (http://www.on-air.info/UI_CLM.png)

thank you very much for giving me such a nice foobar

newer would be RC1 .. but why use that when final is out ?

musicmusic!!! Sorry for wreaking havoc 
After messing more with my source according to foosions tips, the "bug" has been squished, but rather on my side than yours.

I don't know BTW, why my code worked well with the default UI 

Thanks for your patience, and sorry again.

And thanks, foosion, for your help.

what is newer b8 or RC1 ?

where can i find custom buttons ?

newer would be RC1 .. but why use that when final is out ?

Hi,

Thank you for this wonderful plug in.

I would like to report a small glitch in RC1: The seekbar doesn’t work with long (>=57min) musepack files: the seekbar is locked.
(Long mp4-files however, aren’t a problem)

This glitch did not happen in beta8.


-tm/

Small bug: column headers which are center or right-aligned shift to the left when you sort by them (click on the header and get that little triangle); they stay left-aligned even after sorting by a different column afterwards and don't reset until you switch playlists. Thanks.

Would it be possible to simulate the playlist tabs of the Default User Interface more closely? I don't know if they're taller, or what it is, but the default tabs seem much cleaner and clearer than in foo_ui_columns...

Also, maybe I'm just stupid - Would it be possible to add the ASCII-style buttons from the Default User Interface as well?

a bug: if there's '&' character(s) in the name of playlist and playlist mode is tabs, there's no '&' shown and the next letter is underlined. Oh, Windows does that, right? default UI works ok with that. Fix please!
Still waiting for RC2...

Stupid question, but is there any reason why this component doesn't work for me at all? I tried installing both the newest ver of FB2K & Foo_ui_columns on 2 different machines and it shows all the options in preferences, but it doesn't actually show the columns in FB (or change the interface whatsoever). I also use foo_looks too, is there a conflict because of that? It seems like foo_looks is the only visual component I can get to work... BTW I'm running WinXP in case that affects things. Thanks.

-ScislaC

Under the "Display" section, select "Columns UI" as the user interface module.

Feature request:

The user should be able to drag songs off the play list to make a copy of the file at the destination.

static UINT WM_TASKBARCREATED = uRegisterWindowMessage("TaskbarCreated");

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Feature request:

The user should be able to drag songs off the play list to make a copy of the file at the destination.

Right-click and drag...  It took me a while to find this too 

How about restoring the tray icon if/when Explorer is restarted?

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Or, you can initialize that variable when you create your window.

You can find a bit of information at this (old) page (http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0299/c/c0299.aspx), or search Google. :B

I just thought that it would be very nice to have an option on columns that will hide the columns if theres no playback and show when playback starts (or vise-versa) ... that could be very very nice

bouh

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I just thought that it would be very nice to have an option on columns that will hide the columns if theres no playback and show when playback starts (or vise-versa) ... that could be very very nice

bouh

What would be on the playlist if there was no columns ? 

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I don't know BTW, why my code worked well with the default UI

I still want to look into what exactly is happening different from the default ui.

There still may or may not be a problem, so no apology needed..

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I don't know BTW, why my code worked well with the default UI

I still want to look into what exactly is happening different from the default ui.

There still may or may not be a problem, so no apology needed..

I looked into it and basically you were getting called with on_flush() after the main window was destroyed, because uDefWindowProc was destroying it in response to the WM_CLOSE message. Obviously, your window is destroyed then and so the saving of the window position failed..

..whether it is a problem or not, I have changed it for RC2, at least for consistency.

On 0.1 RC1 "Minimize to systray" check box doesn't work (has no effect, foobar still minimizes to taskbar). "Show systray icon" works properly.

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On 0.1 RC1 "Minimize to systray" check box doesn't work (has no effect, foobar still minimizes to taskbar). "Show systray icon" works properly.

Can't reproduce. Maybe you have "Show systray icon" disabled.

Yes, I had it disabled. Thanks. It's slihtly different behaviour from default ui (it still minimizes to systray even if I have "Always show systray icon" disabled). My wish is possibility to completely remove foobar from taskbar (show only in systray regardless of it being minimized or brought to front).

Thanks for great plug-in. Tryed it only today and got stuck to it.

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I just thought that it would be very nice to have an option on columns that will hide the columns if theres no playback and show when playback starts (or vise-versa) ... that could be very very nice

bouh

What would be on the playlist if there was no columns ? 

I think he meant to hide a single column, like the enabled option, but depending on the playback status. I can imagine this used for now-playing markers. 

Great plugin, am loving it, a few pointers tho:

Wouldn't it be better to have auto-resizing availible on a per-collumn basis. I think it jus provides wider felxibility, as there are some collumns which I'd want auto-resized, and some not. This could also make a "now playing" collumn effectivly disappear when nothing's playing?

Steve

- in the default ui, doubleclicking in the statusbar selects the currently playing track. Would it be possible to add this to foo_ui_columns?

I've noticed in a few screenshots that people have images in their playlists (for replaygain a tick or a cross etc), and I am curious as to how this is done.

Is there an online to tutorial for this? Or would someone care to explain it?

I wish to create a rating collumn similar to that in foo_tunes (foo_tunes i feel is too buggy atm for my use).

Cheers,
Steve

$if(%__replaygain_track_gain%,%_gone%|%_gtwo%$char(10003),%_rone%|%_rtwo%$char(10007))   
$if(%__replaygain_album_gain%,%_gone%|%_gtwo%$char(10003),%_rone%|%_rtwo%$char(10007))

Just discovered a small header redrawing problem with RC2, reproduced in this manner:
1) "Auto-resizing column mode" is on.
2) Create new empty playlist (where there is no vertical scrollbar).
3) Add enough files to the playlist so that the vertical scrollbar appears.
4) Header isn't redrawn i.e. vertical scrollbar overlaps the right-most part of the header.

Also, since ctrl-a support has been added to the column config, why not add it for globals too?

Was reluctant to nitpick on your great work, but I guess feedback is to only way to make it even better

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I just thought that it would be very nice to have an option on columns that will hide the columns if theres no playback and show when playback starts (or vise-versa) ... that could be very very nice

bouh

What would be on the playlist if there was no columns ? 

I think he meant to hide a single column, like the enabled option, but depending on the playback status. I can imagine this used for now-playing markers. 

exactly ... the now playing animation columns, the time remaining/left columns, and other stuff too who knows ... but thing is, those columns takes space when the playback is stopped, for no reason ... so I think this feature could bring new possibilities

Also, what is the format for a buttons.bmp file? It only asks for one file, so they all must be in the same image, and presumable in a specific order/positioning for the plugin to assign the buttons correctly?

- This one is probably for post-0.1: show the sidebar on mouse-over. When you're not using it, the sidebar is hidden. When you touch the left side of the window with the mouse pointer (and leave it there for a few seconds) the sidebar "slides" out. When you move the pointer away from the sidebar, it disappears again. Oh, actually I discovered the doubleclick-the-sidebar-separator-function while I'm writing this. That's almost as good as what I'm describing here.

musicmusic, the new tabs look great. Thanks very much!