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AEN007:
16June2012

Greetings.

How about users being able to set some Trout StatusBar formatting?
I would like to BOLD the TE, TR, CPU% & PL# sections and
set the font/background colors to lime on black
(like the/my SeekBar items ... for reference
 see one of my previous postings with upload images ...)

Also the final field with the pathed item playing is not wide enough (for my items).
Maybe the PL# section is too wide?
Also maybe users could be able to select how much (if any) of the path to show there?
... like maybe only the filename without any path or with just the last subdir name?

skwire:
Font formatting of the status bar isn't going to happen.  However, your comment about the path section is something I can do work around.  Each status bar section can only hold around 127 characters so that's the limit you're running into.  I can try to make it so that all paths fit within 127 chars...something like this:

c:\really\long\path\...\parent\folder\song.mp3

skwire:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16157.msg291085#msg291085

AEN007:
17June2012

Greetings ...

well I hope you will reserve some space in the back of your mind to consider some way(s)
to make the StatusBar TE, TR, CPU% & PL# sections more readable.
Simply giving an option to BOLD them might be easy/enough ...
foobar (of which you are a fan) allows various formatting of the StatusBar ...
as I'm sure you know.
foobar also allows hiding buttons (& menus ...)
My opinion is still that those Trout playback buttons eat up valuable
screen real estate that could be put to better use - like for the SeekBar display ...

Putting $time_t and/or $time_e in the SeekBar ...
... is redundant;
... requires extra CPU usage (20-30 "basis points" on my MultiMedia XP PII);
... causes the seekbar display to flash every second with each token update;

For the last few years I have been running my MM XP PII in 16bit
(instead of 24bit) color because of the reduced CPU usage when running MM apps.
I have made some config changes to the XP install on my MM PII
and find that it can now handle 24bit color - except that CPU usage
for Trout (with $time_t and/or $time_e) & SpecLab runs around 90% ...
Trout&SpecLab without $time_t and $time_e runs around 60% ...
as does foobar&SpecLab ... even with the foobar Peak Meter also running.

What is the diff between the foobar VU & Peak meter?

What about some kind of fix for the Trout local hotkey bugs/problems?

AEN007:
12June2012

Greetings.

I just "installed" Trout 1.0663 (portable) but
do not see any change in the StatusBar Path section.
That section still displays the full path from left to right,
which means I see only the partial full path with no filename ...

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