Small Pane Issues

[hwk]

Hi Peter,
Since a week or so I'm using XXHe204 with W10 Home Edition.
I'm very, very content with the sound quality.
In my system it's a huge leap forward in quality compared with the sound  from version 1.186a. Thank you!

I've still a small amount of questions/issues for you:
In my music dedicated computer system I use a small (10") VGA screen.
I've played a bit with the screen settings from XXHe and have now a reasonable looking UI with a convenient 4 rows of thumbnails.
The settings concerning the screen and coverart are now:
Skin Settings: Scale Factor 1.20. 
If I use "Apply CoverArt Background Image to Empty Area Only" I've the message on my screen after starting up XXhe: 
"Show CoverArt from Actual Album - 2147417834- Er kan niet worden uitgebeld  omdat de toepassing een asynchrone aanroep verzendt. (Uitzondering v. HRESULT: 0x80010100 (RPC_E_CANTCALLOUT_ININPUTSYNCCALL))" So I don't use it. 
What is the use of this choice anyway?

Every time I start XXHe, slider 2 is set to the left while I saved the settings with it way to the right (I never use the "Show Data" button at all)
Is this normal? For I find it a bit tiresome that I have to reset it every time (although less annoying than before when also with every time a playback was finished, the slider was set a bit to the left and the number of showed rows of thumnails was smaller..)
Is this a standard "issue" or can it be changed in a way?

What is the use of the slider on the mainscreen for the CoverArt Pane Picture Size? It doesn't effect anything...

Best Regards, HW

[PeterSt]

Hi there HW,

No, nothing you tell there I regard to be intended. But now what's going on ...

First off, I will try with that 1.20 Scaling Factor and see whether that's maybe too small for some things (I never try it that small). What is the resolution of your screen (like 640x480 etc.) ?

Er kan niet worden uitgebeld  omdat de toepassing een asynchrone aanroep verzendt

LOL That must be some fine Windows translation. Anyway it is not mine. "Uitgebeld" should be something like "called" (like in calling a program). I can imagine the message but I never heard of it. Fair chance that this is wacky W10 or even the Home edition (I don't think I know of anyone using Home).

What is the use of the slider on the mainscreen for the CoverArt Pane Picture Size? It doesn't effect anything...

Well, it should - size the pictures in that pane. But it is my bet that you don't show anything in that pane.
Notice that to the right of the LAn On button there's a combobox with Playlist Name. Under that there's a Save button and under that a Show Data button. That one must be active.
(and I am saying this all because probably you don't see that button because of your small screen in the first place).

I'll be back when I know more. Let me know your resolution.
Kind regards,
Peter

[hwk]

HI Peter,

the resolution of my screen is 1024x600.
Q. re.the slider: the pane you're referring to: is it the pane left with the thumbnail or the pane right (for the data)

Best Regards, HW

[hwk]

BTW: I also get the message: "Show CoverArt from Actual Album - 2147417834- Er kan niet worden uitgebeld  omdat de toepassing een asynchrone aanroep verzendt. (Uitzondering v. HRESULT: 0x80010100 (RPC_E_CANTCALLOUT_ININPUTSYNCCALL))" also with  "Apply CoverArt Background Image to Empty Area Only" not "On". So I Always get this message when I start up XXHe...
What other setting could give this effect?

Best Regards, HW

[PeterSt]

Q. re.the slider: the pane you're referring to: is it the pane left with the thumbnail or the pane right (for the data)

The rightmost pane, with my explicit mentioning of 3 panes being there (not two, which is what you might think). Drag the [ 2 ] slider to the left to see it.

Peter

[PeterSt]

Every time I start XXHe, slider 2 is set to the left while I saved the settings with it way to the right (I never use the "Show Data" button at all)
Is this normal?

Can it be so that this happens because you use the "maximized" screen (of XXHighEnd) ? Thus, does this also happen when you drag the right hand screen border to the left a few cm - same with the bottom border up a bit ?
Just to try so I know what is happening ...

[PeterSt]

If I use "Apply CoverArt Background Image to Empty Area Only" I've the message on my screen after starting up XXhe: 
"Show CoverArt from Actual Album - 2147417834- Er kan niet worden uitgebeld [...]

I have just been trying for 35 minutes - in all combinations imaginable - to let this go wrong. But I can't. Not in Windows 7 and not in Windows 10 Build 10586.0. So it should be either of this :

The Home edition of Windows 10 you use there;
The Windows 10 specific Build;
The combination you have in order and which I apparently can't find.

So notice that in my view the error can only happen when you also have an image file in the "Coverart Background Image" field, and or you have that "Show Data" button active (the one I talked about earlier and of which you say that you don't use it anyway).

It won't be helpful much, but notice that this is about something you see below - denoting an image which shows where you see the "flakes" (black and white) of the image I chose for pointing it out. So if you can survive with not having such a thing ... I really don't know where to go when I can't copy the behavior ...

Regards,
Peter

[hwk]

Hi Peter,
You were right: it was the "maximized" screen as set in the properties of the desktop icon of XXHe.
Since I set this to Normal, I don't get the strange message anymore. Futhermore I believe Slider 2 stays in the position I want it to. So, these problems seems to be solved.
Thanks.
Did I mention already, that I like the sound of XXHe very, very much? 

Best Regards, HW