4.0 reports, queries and bugs

[Rah3D]

Hey again, I think I found a small bug:
If "Interface > Show in:" is set to either "tray" or "taskbar and tray", info bubbles will always be shown on a song change, even when they're turned off. I also tried with a fresh xmplay.ini, same behavior. Version is 4.0.0.1.

[Ian @ un4seen]

The new advanced drag&drop in XMPlay 4.0 can be quite useful at times, but I feel that most of the time it hinders my playlist editing. If I wanted to move a track a long way across the playlist, for example, I could just drag it way outside of the XMPlay window, which would then move it in the playlist very quickly. Now, dragging it outside of the window does something completely different.

Here's an update for you to try, which will scroll more quickly when hovering closer to the top or bottom edge of the list:

    www.un4seen.com/stuff/xmplay.exe

If compatibility already needs to be broken anyway, maybe it would be an opportunity to design new field extensions in a way that would remain backwards-compatible using key/value pairs, assuming that older XMPlay versions would then keep unknown keys in the library even when modifying it?

Yeah, perhaps something like that. I'll have to think about this some more before making any library format changes.

Hey again, I think I found a small bug:
If "Interface > Show in:" is set to either "tray" or "taskbar and tray", info bubbles will always be shown on a song change, even when they're turned off. I also tried with a fresh xmplay.ini, same behavior. Version is 4.0.0.1.

Are you seeing the new song's title appear by the tray? If so, please confirm whether you have "Tray title bubbles" disabled in the "Titles" options page. The tray titles aren't affected by the "Show info bubbles" setting in the "Interface" options page, so that the info bubbles/tooltips and tray titles can be controlled separately. There's also a separate setting for fullscreen vis titles.

[saga]

Here's an update for you to try, which will scroll more quickly when hovering closer to the top or bottom edge of the list:

This works a bit better, but it still feels a bit unnatural that e.g. dragging the cursor slightly outside of the playlist panel (e.g. into the window title area right above) doesn't allow the dragging to continue. Maybe the auto-scrolling could continue while the cursor is still above window elements of XMPlay itself that wouldn't allow the song to be dropped into anyway?

[Rah3D]

Hey again, I think I found a small bug:
If "Interface > Show in:" is set to either "tray" or "taskbar and tray", info bubbles will always be shown on a song change, even when they're turned off. I also tried with a fresh xmplay.ini, same behavior. Version is 4.0.0.1.

Are you seeing the new song's title appear by the tray? If so, please confirm whether you have "Tray title bubbles" disabled in the "Titles" options page. The tray titles aren't affected by the "Show info bubbles" setting in the "Interface" options page, so that the info bubbles/tooltips and tray titles can be controlled separately. There's also a separate setting for fullscreen vis titles.

Ooooooh, that's it. I haven't changed this option in decades, literally - I forgot it even existed! I assumed it must be the "Info Bubbles/Tooltips" option since it also changes the text size of the title bubble. Usually I just copy my existing XMPlay directory when setting up a new computer, but this time I started from scratch, re-enabling that option. Thanks for reminding me! It's not a bug then, sorry!

[Hal]

Hey, what happened to the "Show filenames in extended list" option? In 4.0 it's gone. It's the main reason preventing me from using 4.0.

[Ian @ un4seen]

That option is now in the playlist's right-click menu ("Display columns" submenu) and can be enabled in either the main or extended playlist. A "List - Show filenames" keyboard shortcut can also be set for toggling it.