happens with smaller interval size and heavy work on repaint. "Normal" scripts are not affected.

Yep, thanx, background color based on the cover color scheme, that's why i need v1.5.6

Has TP Wang really disappeared? I thought he was participating in this thread fairly recently.

I noticed that on_metadb_changed(), script not search for image, only when you press play it search image from last.fm.

If you click re-scan, you will see that it is alredy download 1-3 images. It would be good that script not wait, and immediately show that 1-3 images.

Quote from: mire777 on 2013-10-21 13:55:06

I noticed that on_metadb_changed(), script not search for image, only when you press play it search image from last.fm.

that's intended. when foobar isn't playing, selection changes can be rapid and i don't want to trigger loads of requests at once.

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If you click re-scan, you will see that it is alredy download 1-3 images. It would be good that script not wait, and immediately show that 1-3 images.

for performance reasons, the thumbnail strip you see is actually one image generated by "stitching" all the images together. rescanning the folder destroys all the current images, gets a list of files, creates new image objects and creates the "stitched" image from scratch. if you ever see a delay when loading folders full of images that already exist, it's because of this "stitching". i don't think it would be a good idea to trigger this after each image has been downloaded.

whilst i'm not really sure why you'd be looking at the images in foobar when nothing is playing, i suppose i could use a timer to cycle images instead.

Only that cycle is what missing..

Quote from: mire777 on 2013-10-21 14:38:07

Only that cycle is what missing..

done. right click>Update script.

full download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22801321/wsh/samples.zip
changelog: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2280132...h/changelog.txt

according to his profile, he's not even browsed the site while logged in since last december.

7.2013-10-21.03

"Now playing" & "Thumbs". A change earlier today meant images with 
uppercase lettters in their filename extension were ignored. 
This has now been fixed.

Quote from: marc2003 on 2013-10-21 02:55:14

according to his profile, he's not even browsed the site while logged in since last december.

Ugh, that sucks. I recently saw he posted two pages ago in the official WSH component thread, but I hadn't realized that was almost a year ago.

At least all the code is in a public repository so someone can make changes and improvements if he's really gone for good.

but who is interrested and have the skills and time for ?

the problem is that all the people who are interested in it don't have the skills -afterall, that's why we're using it. and the people with the skills probably aren't interested.

so if these two features are not used, you can use v1.5.4 as well, it make sense when you know that v1.5.6 is not stable when using complex script that use timers and create a lot of objects (even if they are free from memory properly). The fix about tooltip brought by v1.5.5 & v1.5.6 has broken something in the handle of memory usage
TIPS: a way to fix this bug in v1.5.6 is to code a CollectGarbage() many times in the life of the script / memory usage done.

I'm guessing I have most of the skills required and could probably pick up the rest if really needed.

Quote from: Falstaff on 2013-10-20 08:58:43

so if these two features are not used, you can use v1.5.4 as well, it make sense when you know that v1.5.6 is not stable when using complex script that use timers and create a lot of objects (even if they are free from memory properly). The fix about tooltip brought by v1.5.5 & v1.5.6 has broken something in the handle of memory usage
TIPS: a way to fix this bug in v1.5.6 is to code a CollectGarbage() many times in the life of the script / memory usage done.

After saying that I had never encountered this, I might have encountered it yesterday. Can you explain what the symptom is? Does foobar crash? Does the WSHPanel script crash? Does foobar's memory usage skyrocket?

sorry but it's kind of unavoidable. i don't want to spawn multiple processes downloading all the images at once plus i'd have no way to tell when it's finished and when to rescan the folder.

i've already given the reasons for why i'm not changing it. if you can't suppress your need to right click the panel for a few seconds then don't use it.

i have updated it to display a little hourglass when it's working. at least that shows it's doing something. right click>Update script.

var but_x = Math.round((p.w - 224) / 2);

function on_size() {
    p.size();
    b.update();
}

if you have 7 buttons and they are each 32px in width, that's 224. now subtract that from the panel width and divide it by 2. that gives you the x co-ordinate of where the first button should be....

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var but_x = Math.round((p.w - 224) / 2);

use but_x for the first button and then increment each one by 32 (but_x + 32, but_x + 64 etc)

you also need to make sure you call the b.update() function inside the on_size function like this...

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function on_size() {
    p.size();
    b.update();
}

// ==PREPROCESSOR==
// @import "%fb2k_profile_path%marc2003\common7.js"
// @name "Web Links"
// @author "marc2003. Images by komodomedia.com and mjm716"
// @feature "v1.4"
// @feature "watch-metadb"
// ==/PREPROCESSOR==
 
var p = new panel("Web Links", ["custom_background", "metadb"]);
p.version = "7.2013-04-20.02";
p.filename = "web links.txt";
var b = new buttons();
var but_x = Math.round((p.w - 224) / 2);
p.check_version();
 
b.update = function() {
        if (!p.metadb) return;
        var artist = encodeURIComponent(p.eval("%artist%"));
        var title = encodeURIComponent(p.eval("%title%"));
        var lastfm = "http://www.last.fm/music/" + artist + "/_/" + title;
        var google = "https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=" + artist;
        var wikipedia = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + artist;
        var youtube = "http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=" + artist + "+" + title;
        var discogs = "http://www.discogs.com/search?q=" + artist;
        var myspace = "http://www.myspace.com/search/music?q=" + artist;
        var allmusic = "http://www.allmusic.com/search/artists/" + artist;
       
        b.buttons = {
                lastfm: new button(but_x, 0, 32, 32, {normal: "lastfm.png", hover: "lastfm_h.png"}, function() { p.browser(lastfm); }, lastfm),
                google: new button(but_x+32, 0, 32, 32, {normal: "google.png", hover: "google_h.png"}, function() { p.browser(google); }, google),
                youtube: new button(but_x+64, 0, 32, 32, {normal: "youtube.png", hover: "youtube_h.png"}, function() { p.browser(youtube); }, youtube),
                wikipedia: new button(but_x+96, 0, 32, 32, {normal: "wikipedia.png", hover: "wikipedia_h.png"}, function() { p.browser(wikipedia); }, wikipedia),
                discogs: new button(but_x+128, 0, 32, 32, {normal: "discogs.png", hover: "discogs_h.png"}, function() { p.browser(discogs); }, discogs),
                myspace: new button(but_x+160, 0, 32, 32, {normal: "myspace.png", hover: "myspace_h.png"}, function() { p.browser(myspace); }, myspace),
                allmusic: new button(but_x+192, 0, 32, 32, {normal: "allmusic.png", hover: "allmusic_h.png"}, function() { p.browser(allmusic); }, allmusic),
               
        }
        window.Repaint();
}
 
on_item_focus_change();
 
function on_size() {
    p.size();
    b.update();
}
 
function on_paint(gr) {
        p.draw_background(gr);
        b.draw(gr);
}
 
function on_metadb_changed() {
        b.update();
}
 
function on_mouse_move(x, y) {
        b.move(x, y);
}
 
function on_mouse_lbtn_up(x, y) {
        b.lbtn_up(x, y);
}

var but_x = Math.round((p.w - 224) / 2);

var but_x = Math.round((p.w - 224) / 2);
b.buttons = {
   lastfm:

sorry it's my fault for not being clear. this...

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var but_x = Math.round((p.w - 224) / 2);

should go inside the b.update() function.

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var but_x = Math.round((p.w - 224) / 2);
b.buttons = {
   lastfm: