Here's 0.14 which is a bugfix release. I made the image brighter but reflection amount configurability will have to wait a bit. Reflection looks about OK with the camera near (itunes style) but not so great with the camera far so I'll rework them at some point.

@ Falstaff: found a solution to the PUI fullscreen problem, finally.

0.14

- fix: mipmaps setting remembered but mipmaps not generated on foobar relaunch
- fix: crash when playing, on next track change if playing track was not in the active playlist and "playback follow cursor" was disabled
- fix: hack to make switching to fullscreen with Panel UI work without artifacts
- chg: made the rendering of covers more bright

I still always get crashes when leaving fullscreen mode and on startup I get "Could Not Unregister Class." in the console. I don't know if there's a connection but sth. still seems not to be ok. I'm on Vista 32bit if that matters.

First off bubbleguuum, thank you for all your hard work in coding this brilliant component! Even in its early stage, it's already highly functional and relatively stable.

I do have one problem however. I am using a dual monitor setup and, with version 0.13, fullscreen worked perfectly on my second monitor. But, now with version 0.14, when i double click on the black area when in windowed mode on my second display, coverflow disappears instead of going fullscreen. The only way to make it visible again is to close coverflow and then restart it. This bug only seems to affect output on a second monitor as fullscreen mode still works perfectly on my primary display. Perhaps the changes you made to correct fullscreen mode in panels_ui are the source of the problem?

Thanks again for the great plug-in!

I still consistently get crashes when leaving fullscreen mode. Basically it makes foobar not respond and take high cpu usage until I kill the process.

The "Can't unregister..." message are benign. I never had crashes exiting fullscreen so this may be a driver issue. You could try to update your video driver to see if it changes anything. You can also try the 0.12 debug build and post the crash log (if any) : http://bubbleguuum.free.fr/foo_bubble_cove..._0.12_debug.zip

Just a remark : Mimaps make foobar very slow (with only 7 covers in the Coverflow!) (Bubble_coverflow 0.14 +  foobar 0.9.4.5 + PanelsUI 0.14.9)

So, i disable it in settings.

btw, no more crash

Quote from: Falstaff on 2008-01-26 22:04:09

Just a remark : Mimaps make foobar very slow (with only 7 covers in the Coverflow!) (Bubble_coverflow 0.14 +  foobar 0.9.4.5 + PanelsUI 0.14.9)

So, i disable it in settings.

btw, no more crash

Yup mipmaps is slower because they must be generated on the fly for each cover loaded and it is CPU intensive.
Do you have "ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: yes" in the console ?  If the answer is no, that means you're using an older video card, and mipmap generation is the slowest it can get because it has to compute mipmaps on power of two textures that can be greater than the resolution of the original images, hence even more processing.

EDIT: I'll also have to investigate if a faster mipmap generation method could not speed things up.

Do you have "ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: yes" in the console ?  If the answer is no, that means you're using an older video card, and mipmap generation is the slowest it can get because it has to compute mipmaps on power of two textures that can be greater than the resolution of the original images, hence even more processing.

EDIT: I'll also have to investigate if a faster mipmap generation method could not speed things up.

[18:24:33] Could Not Unregister Class.
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: OpenGL vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: OpenGL version: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.19
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: OpenGL extensions:  GL_ARB_color_buffer_float GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_S3_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_Cg_shader GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_two_side GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_sRGB GL_EXT_timer_query GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color GL_NV_depth_clamp GL_NV_fence GL_NV_float_buffer GL_NV_fog_distance GL_NV_fragment_program GL_NV_fragment_program_option GL_NV_fragment_program2 GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_coverage GL_NV_half_float GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_pixel_data_range GL_NV_point_sprite GL_NV_primitive_restart GL_NV_register_combiners GL_NV_register_combiners2 GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 GL_NV_texture_expand_normal GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_texture_shader GL_NV_texture_shader2 GL_NV_texture_shader3 GL_NV_vertex_array_range GL_NV_vertex_array_range2 GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 GL_NV_vertex_program2 GL_NV_vertex_program2_option GL_NV_vertex_program3 GL_NVX_conditional_render GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIX_depth_texture GL_SGIX_shadow GL_SUN_slice_accum
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: EXT_blend_color: yes
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: yes
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: ARB_texture_rectangle: yes
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: EXT_texture_rectangle: no
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic: yes
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: SGIS_generate_mipmap: yes
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: WGL_ARB_multisample: yes
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: WGL_EXT_swap_control: yes
[18:24:33] foo_bubble_coverflow: Swap interval = 1
[18:24:33] Could Not Unregister Class.
[18:24:33] Could Not Unregister Class.
[18:24:33] Could Not Unregister Class.
[18:24:34] Could Not Unregister Class.
[18:24:34] Could Not Unregister Class.

That's not correct - the difference is only 1 mipmap (e.g. if your image's with 9px -> mipmaps: 4,2,1 - rounded up to power of two, the size is 16px -> mipmaps 8, 4, 2, 1). I don't think that does make that much of a difference.

- do supersampling (not multisampling!) on the whole image
I think this is the best solution - you will have to render the frame at least 2 times, but you should be able to get >400fps on any GPU after all (you are only rendering less than 100 polygons...).
GPUs don't have built-in support for this (as far as I know). But you can implement supersampling with the accumulation buffer. You just have to watch out that you don't supersample your text (bluuuuur).

My second request would be to add some kind of animation when moving the albums. Kind of like the original Apple Coverflow does.

$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)*.jpg

Can someone tell me what to fill in the cover source to display ANY jpg? The problem is, my covers are sometimes named folder, front, wsfwefoiewoff35646456546, or whatever.

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$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,)*.jpg

doesn't work. Are wildcards  not supported, yet?

Thanks in advance.

@bubbleguuum:
Are you planning to add animations to your component?

@bubbleguuum:

Now coverflow window is horisontally orientation. It is possible make selection in preference of plugin also vertical orientation of this windows (move cover from bottom to top) ?

Quote from: The Link on 2008-01-25 07:44:09

I still consistently get crashes when leaving fullscreen mode. Basically it makes foobar not respond and take high cpu usage until I kill the process.

Same happened to me with version 0.14
Bug appears very seldom (only after heavy testing).
Foobar doesn't crash, program responds not.

Vista 32bit, panels ui 0.14.9, FofR-Skin, nVidia 7300SE

Problem could be, that I've installed two coverflow-panels at different locations of script.
I'll try it again with only one coverflow-panel.