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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 24 for Windows => Topic started by: forbigd on October 30, 2018, 08:56:09 am

Title: Help with an expression
Post by: forbigd on October 30, 2018, 08:56:09 am: All, I have what I consider to be a pretty complicated setup. I play Audio, Music Videos, and DTS files, all pickable from one list.
I want a way to show that the file about to play is either normal stereo, DTS, or a video.
I have used colors to show that the track was a video using
if(isequal([Media Type], Video, 1), [Name], [Name])
So all videos in the list are Blue. I put that in the Name field.
I also use colors to show a track is DTS.
if(isequal([Channels], 6, 1), [Album], [Album])

But if I use the second expression it has to be in a different field. I chose Album, but my making Album an expression, the cool little arrow taking me back to the whole album is missing. So I want to put both expressions in one field, NAME.

I want the NAME field to be black font for stereo, blue font for a video, and green font for a dts.
Is that possible? I have tried combining them, stacking them, all sorts of tricks, and none do what I want.
I am attaching my main screen so you get what I am going for. I don't want to have to use two fields to show the two different status. (statii? :))
This is for Playing Now, but if it worked I would use it on the main display too. I just switched DTS to Duration, but it is too small. I want the whole song title in Green, or Blue, etc.

Thanks for looking.

Don
Title: Re: Help with an expression
Post by: swiv3d on October 30, 2018, 10:43:59 am: You probably need to use
IfElse(test1, action1, test2, action2, test3, action3, …) to get the results you want.
Title: Re: Help with an expression
Post by: marko on October 30, 2018, 10:57:58 am: What swiv3d said :)

Use the "ifelse" funtion to string these together... (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Conditional_Functions#IfElse)

ifelse(isequal([Media Type], Video, 1), [Name]<//font>,isequal([Channels], 6, 1), [Name]<//font>,isequal([Channels], 2, 1), [Name]<//font>,1, [Name]<//font>)

The beauty of "ifelse" is that you can just keep adding conditions to the string as the need arises and the expression doesn't get out of control with the need of a whole heap of closing brackets at the end. You only ever need just the one, to close the "ifelse" funtion off and the job is done. You'll notice that I've ended with "1", make the font white, which basically says if nothing else applies, the font will be white.

Remember also, that order is important. As the test for video is performed first, if you have six channel video, it will still display the colour for video as once it finds a positive match, it considers the result complete and moves on to the next file.
Title: Re: Help with an expression
Post by: forbigd on October 30, 2018, 11:08:51 am: Wow, rattled it off in less time than it took to ask, it seems.
I had worked on it (off and on) for days. I will learn from this, I will figure out how it ticks and use it for other things. Already I can see how I can use this in another place.
Thanks alot!!

Don
Title: Re: Help with an expression
Post by: Mike Foran on October 30, 2018, 12:31:27 pm: Off topic, but how did you get your panels to align like that, with the three verticals on the left, and the 'Playing Now' on the right? Is that a function of the skin you are using or can it be done with any skin?
Title: Re: Help with an expression
Post by: marko on October 30, 2018, 12:38:47 pm: Hi Mike, can be done with any skin. Experiment with "View > Split view"

-marko
Title: Re: Help with an expression
Post by: Mike Foran on October 31, 2018, 03:02:40 pm: Ah cool thanks! Never used that feature somehow.