XXHighEnd Model 0.9t-7 (Embedded Explorer with better Intuitivity)

[PeterSt]

If all is right this is the last version in the 0.9t series. As the title tells, 0.9t-7 adds better intuitivity for the Embedded Explorer in combination with the Library Area data and functions.
Please let know if you can find some improvement !

• When the folder tree you are looking at contains meta data, a Link Icon will be shown. In the picture below this is so.
  Note : When the tree contains mixed physical music files and meta data (.mta files), the Link Icon will be shown at the higher level, indicating that meta data is contained "somewhere". Of course you shouldn't organize things so that mixed data is under a folder tree (not good for proper management).
  
  
• In the before version, at the startup of XXHighEnd the tree would automatically decend to the last chosen folder (always visible in the bottom text field, like D:\Galery\Jazz shows in the picture below). This does not happen anymore because it appeared nice, but not handy. Instead the highest folder under the Music Root (this latter is "Galery" in the picture below) is shown bold, indicating that this is the actual main folder chosen last (before shutdown of XX). In the picture below this has been "Lounge".
  
  
• Clicking on a folder (so not the Plus sighn), shows all the Albums found under that folder (as deep as it sits), and besides that it shows how many Albums are in there. In the picture was clicked on the "Jazz", and 566 Albums are in there.
  This works at each folder level.
  
  
• While clicking on a main folder will show the number of Albums under that structure, as explained above, for the folders below that this will be done automatically. However, only for folders where more than 1 Album resides the number will show accordingly. Look at the World folder; a 4-, 2- and 2- are shown respectively; Only those folders contain the respective number of Albums, being more than 1.
  
  
• Since some tricks were applied for good performance, it is good to know that optimization is best for Galeries, hence *not* for normal phycial music files. This is best noticeable when you'd ask for a tree with physical music files which are directly under the main Music Root (as set in the Settings Area); You'd expect numbers of Albums there (see above), which however are not worked out automatically at this level (but a click on a folder shows it anyway).
  All implies that if you don't (want to) work with Galeries, the least you should do is create differentiation right under the Music Root (like the picture below shows; never mind that's about Galeries).
  
  
• From now on, the main music root is always determined by the setting accordingly in the Settings Area. Together with setting that field, the bottom text field where the current path asked for is shown, will be reset.
  Important : A result list, whereever it comes from, and no matter how it is applied, will always have subtracted the part as is filled in the Music Root field. Look at the picture again; the bottom text field shows "D:\Galery\Jazz\". Here too that part is subtracted from each of the Album titles as shown. Thus, actually the first Album resides in D:\Galery\Jazz\Ahmad Jamahl\Freeflight\. Now, since this works just the same with the Music Root (what is filled there will be subtracted) you could set that to your respective physical folders e.g. G:\WAV\Jazz-A, G:\WAV\Jazz-B, G:\WAV\Jazz-C. When you after having set the Music Root to the first one press Seach, the result list will not show the G:\WAV\Jazz-A part without showing that part off the path, and when you now physically copy the result list to a Galery D:\Galery\Jazz and do that for each respective Jazz-x folder, all will end up neatly sorted under \Jazz only and you are not bothered at all anymore by the physical structure of the source data, just like you won't be bothered by the drives it all resides on (so this is how you create one logical drive for all).
  
  
• When a track from the Playlist Area was saved to a Galery (rightclick, Add to Galery), and a second track was selected to save to the same Galery, nothing happened. This is solved now.
  
  
• At the various selections of folders to save to (in general by means of the "..." buttons), a Cancel to those popups actually proceeded anyway. Now, a Cancel reply actually cancels.
  
  
• In a few cases, the popups for selecting folders did not show the proper caption (like what the folder needs to be selected for). If all is right this is solved now.
  
  
• Important change : Before the option "Select / Unselect All (checkboxes)" (rightclick on CoverArt, with the Chk checkbox ticked) indeed did so. Now, only those checkboxes will be ticked / unticked from those items in the result list that were first "normally" selected. "Normally" means : selected by means of ctrl-click etc.;
  Firstly this is more normal Windows behaviour, but secondly it is more convenient when a large group -but not all- of items need their checkboxes to be ticked. Note that working with checkboxes is much more convenient by itself, when large amounts of items need to be selected for creating Galeries etc. (working with the normal means of selecting has a high chance of mis-clicking, which would loose all current selections; not so with checkboxes).
  
  
• Before, when "Select All (checkboxes)" or "Unselect All (checkboxes)" was performed, but the Chk checkbox wasn't ticked (hence the functionality wasn't applicable), just nothing happened. Messages are added for this now.
  
  
• When the Library Area has been selected once, switching to another Area and back will now show the state of the Embedded Explorer as how it was left.
  
  
• At various combinations it could happen that CoverArt did not show. This is now solved.
  
  
• A debug message "Pattern error Track" could occur when doing something "wrong" which isn't you fault at all. It required many clicks to get rid of that message, and it was hard to recover from it anyway. This message will not appear anymore.
  
  
• When a folder is clicked, any existing Search Text in the field next to the Search button is respected. Also, this reflects the number of "Albums" shown (the 566 in below picture). Don't let this confuse you, and instead make good use of it !
  
  

Edit : Forgot this one :

• At rightclick on the Coverart in the Library Area a new option "Show Location" has been added. This kind of mimics the standard behaviour of the 0.9t-6 version : in the left pane it shows where the chosen item (generally an Album) is located in the folder tree.