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Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

I'm trying to get a new skin working with Columns UI, and I want a custom background image behind it all, to get a texture feel, but I also blend that with another pic, to get a bit of depth and style. I do that in Photoshop ofc. I've managed to get rid of scrollbars and ugly grey panels by using ELPlaylist and Library Tree, with PSS. And setting pseudo-transparency in ELPlaylist works just fine. With Library tree however I can only change color of the background, so it sticks out and doesn't feel very intergrated.

I want something like this as the result (preferably with transparency smarter than just photoshopping and reducing opacity as I did here):

http://postimg.org/image/cd154q23p/

Currently I'm stuck at this:

http://postimg.org/image/vziyttokv/

I'm gonna tackle better buttons (those were a five min fix just to have something) and if possible a better and customizable seekbar afterwards. Can anyone give me some help/hints? I'm not familiar with actual coding, I just read threads on forums, try a bit for myself and learn from all the mistakes I constantly make. But for this to work I'm fairly certain I first need a plugin for the artist view or library view that has either pseudo-transparency/transparency (preferably, and psudo I'm guessing means it only makes the actual background transparent, not text and art etc...?) or background image possibilites (cutting the full pic appart and doing it that way will not be as nice, but I plan to leave it full screen, so should work). I really want to be able to either darken down any scrollbar or just remove it too, like I've done now.

Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

Reply #1 –
esplaylist is the only library viewer i know of that supports pseudo-transparency. it's from the same site as library tree/elplaylist.

edit: a quick and dirty example...



that's actually 2 instances of EsPlaylist. the column on the left is set to browse the library by artist in layered view. the one on the right is just the active playlist displayed with a fixed view.

Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

Reply #2 –
Thanks for tip!

Got it up and running, but it gives fairly poor overview with the large artwork, and even without it I can't seem to get the columns any smaller? Is there any way to get it to just a list of artists without artwork and have each column only be high enough for the text? I selected none in artwork in my custom grouping, but each column is still the same huge size.

I could try to browse with keyboard unputs for quick searches, but I at least would need to get the artwork and columns smaller...right now they seem to be like at least 250x250 pixels each.

Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

Reply #3 –
unfortunately not. if you start reducing the height, it reduces the width meaning text gets truncated.

Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

Reply #4 –
Hm alright...Thanks tho. Will try it out for a while...it looks decent now that I re arranged the layout a bit, just lost the overview I was used to. Might get used to it. Gonna leave it like this for now and then start with buttons and stuff. Don't know of any transparent seekbars or anything?

What it looks like now btw, far from finished, but starting to see what I was after:

Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

Reply #5 –
for a seekbar, you could use a wsh panel mod script i made. it's ugly by default but you can customise it anyway you like.

read this: http://marc2003.x10host.com/setup
and then this: http://marc2003.x10host.com/simple-seekbar-volume

where it mentions changing the background colour, you should actually delete or comment out the entire line of code. also, you'll need to make sure you set the pseudo-transparent option in the editor.

Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

Reply #6 –
I'll check it out, big thanks! =)
 

Artist view/library view for Columns UI with transparency or backgroun

Reply #7 –
i forgot to mention on the webpage that RGBA is also supported. i'll try and remember to update it later.

examples:
Code: [Select]
RGB(255, 0, 0)
RGBA(0, 0, 0, 156)