Re: Library Tree Discussion
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case uses of your $rgb call
Here's what I meant:
It all boils down to aesthetic choices, but for me it makes a huge difference in readability. Another case use would be 'releases' branch under 'album artist' - I could dim a little everything that has %release type% as single, ep etc., so that full length albums would stand out by being a bit brighter.
It's actually quite complex to set different colours for different parts of a line of text. This plus the extra handling needed in various places, so all scenarios etc work, would increase the overhead
Overhead for your code or for the speed of the tree on my side?
If it's the first, then sure, I understand. If it's the latter, then no worries, I don't think three or four $rgb() calls in my sub-label branch would slow down things at all:$nodisplay{%date%}$nodisplay{%albumartistsortorder%}['{'%catalognumber%'} ']%album artist% - %album%' ['$year(%date%)']'[' ∙ '$meta(media type,0)['/'$abbr($meta(media type,1))]' ∙ ']Honestly I've been conditionally formatting CUI playlists for years and they're all lightspeed fast even if I throw thousands of tracks at them. E.g. in my 'title' column I have recognition of extra-titular info like remix/instrumental etc. and additional highlighting of the remixer:
Absolutely nothing about any CUI elements or SMP has ever been noticeably slow for me, no matter what I do (...unless I make calls to foo_customdb, but it's an old and slow extension in itself).
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Ideally there should be a different mechanism to assign global hotkeys, that could target specific scripts, but I'm not sure if it's achievable with the current fb2k API.
I.e. scripts and particular properties within them. I mean, yeah, I feel like this is probably too much, but I think you agree that a mechanism for communicating between different panels/scripts would be a massively powerful tool: I could draw a button in panel stack splitter that would access particular SMP and change the property 'SYSTEM.View By' to a given value. And vice versa, I could have any PSS element that would react to changes in a particular SMP. So maybe something like $set_smp(smp_id,property,value) and $get_smp(smp_id,property).
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Use $if2": e.g. $if2(%album%,Unknown)
Yeah, pretty much what I did, except I didn't really want to see the ones with empty fields, so I made it as unobtrusive as possible by wrapping the whole view pattern in a conditional. Like, you can see in that snap from my previous post, there's just a little hyphen at the top that has no item count (I could replace it with a zero-width space too or some exotic script character that would move it to the end of the list). Setting all filters to have additional 'PRESENT' is a good idea too, thanks.
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on_key_down(vkey); Note: keyboard shortcuts defined in the main preferences are always executed first and are not passed to the callback.
Hm, not sure if I fully understand this, because both things happen at once for me: playback pauses and the library tree search field receives a space.
However I've already checked other CUI panels with typing option, like 'Typefind' or 'Youtube Source Search' and keystrokes work locally in them, they don't execute foobar's global hotkeys. So I suppose they're somehow isolated, like pop-ups?
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That may be because "mode > auto collapse nodes" is enabled.
Nope, I have it disabled. I can expand multiple nodes in, say, 'by date' view, change the view to 'by artist', then change back to 'by date' again and all the decades will be collapsed again. The panel doesn't remember tree state between views, it only remember it on closing/opening foobar.
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Thanks for this one!
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