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5. ColumnsUI tutorial

This guide is broken into three parts:

  • 5.1 Finding your way around ColumnsUI
    • Provides a basic tutorial on using ColumnsUI for the first time, and navigating the columnsUI preferences
    • Goes through the process of creating a simple layout
  • 5.2 Creating an iTunes stylelayout
    • Both a simple and advanced aproach to creating an iTunes style foobar
    • A look at fonts and colours
    • Short tutorial on using foo_browser
    • Image and code downloads for creating the perfect lookalike
  • 5.3 Code-based tweaks (advanced)
    • Some more loose ends with columnsUI
    • Editing your toolbar
    • Changing playlist properties
    • Using frames, progress bars, etc.

The third section involves the use of foobar's code, which is explained more in the next section. If you're new to this, it's advised that you miss it out, and maybe come back to it after looking at the code section.

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Comments on the columnsUI tutorial

Jon

Posted on the 1st Mar 2009 at 23:28

Hi Speed,

One of the major features of foobar2000 is the components, which means that people can extend the functionality of their player to suit what they need. The stand-alone player is as light-weight as possible, and updates serve to make it more stable, even more light-weight and more compatible with components.

This means that it will never have as many features as ColumnsUI, but that's not a problem because you can use Columns to your heart's content! Hope that makes sense.

speed

Posted on the 1st Mar 2009 at 15:18

Hi, nice tutorial ColumnsUI is very useful especially when need to hide column captions (in my case :))). But this is only a little bit of its features. Regarding to the latest foobar2k version i'm really confused due its feeble features, none of ColumnsUI ones has been imported directly to the F2k. It might greatly improve foobar's functionality, but i hope this will change for the better.

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