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Tutorial on creating foobar UI using Columns

im trying to create my own UI and it would be helpful seeing a tutorial on it

IE:

using custom buttons.

Thanks!

Tutorial on creating foobar UI using Columns

Reply #1 –
Check this

http://www.teqnilogik.com/tutorials/foobar2000_itunes.shtml

You can also use one of the UI by Falstaff or Foonight/Day by qwertz. If you want to make something like falstaff or qwertz you must be confident of your coding skills. They are using Panel Stack Splitter and EL playlist ,  for the newbie this is a little bit challenging.

Hope it helps

Antropoid

Tutorial on creating foobar UI using Columns

Reply #2 –
Thank you for the lnk, but i have already tried this and am not able to do so because foo_browser is no longer available, as the author has stopped making fb2k components. I heard you can use Filter in ColumnsUI but alas, i do not know how.

I have looked at their UI's but i am so used to the way DarkOne UI worked, that i want to "TRY" and make one similar to it.

Tutorial on creating foobar UI using Columns

Reply #3 –
Best way of learning stuff is getting a config you like (Darkone...) and try to change something in that config.

For example, try to change a color of something (for example the now playing color). Search in the code to find the appropiate code, change it, see if it works. Backup your config before doing this of course, so you can revert if you fail.

or try to make it show artist art instead of album art, or both. Go on making little changes and learn from it. 

Tutorial on creating foobar UI using Columns

Reply #4 –
Quote from: stiky on
Thank you for the lnk, but i have already tried this and am not able to do so because foo_browser is no longer available, as the author has stopped making fb2k components. I heard you can use Filter in ColumnsUI but alas, i do not know how.

You can use the "Filter" panel instead of "Browser" - The setup is exactly the same, just a different name. Filter is included with ColumnsUI, you don't need additional downloads for that to work.
Quote from: stiky on
I have looked at their UI's but i am so used to the way DarkOne UI worked, that i want to "TRY" and make one similar to it.

You should play around with ColumnsUI and become confident with it first.

I would not recommend downloading a preconfigured "skin" as Mar2zzz recommends, until you are AT LEAST confident with panels and titleformatting. You can play around with these in the columns and config of columnsui.

Trying to learn how a skin works with no knownledge of panels and titleformatting in general is a dead race and you are likely to give up before getting anything done! It's a hard way, if this is really what you want.
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P