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Title: AW Visualisation
Post by: johnnyboy on December 15, 2007, 10:24:26 am

Hi Guys,
I've paused my music in MC yet the Vis's in the AW are still going.

Was just wondering if when the song is paused the Vis could pause too otherwise it's using up resources when I've in theory put MC in a frozen state (ie it should just be a background app that is open and not effecting my machine at all).

Hope this is an easy one :)

Title: Re: AW Visualisation
Post by: Matt on December 16, 2007, 01:35:58 pm

Visualizations run until you stop playback.

If visualizations are not showing, they do not process or draw.  So if you hide MC or minimize it, they consume no real resources.

This applies to all MC's internal visualizations.  I'm not certain if G-Force employs this optimzation.

Title: Re: AW Visualisation
Post by: johnnyboy on December 16, 2007, 04:40:48 pm

If I minimise the AW does this have the same effect?

Title: Re: AW Visualisation
Post by: Matt on December 16, 2007, 05:32:54 pm

Quote from: johnnyboy on December 16, 2007, 04:40:48 pm

If I minimise the AW does this have the same effect?

Yes.  If it's not showing, it's not running.

Title: Re: AW Visualisation
Post by: johnnyboy on December 16, 2007, 06:41:12 pm

cool.
Quick qu while i have you around and without starting another whole thread for it - trying to use expressions:

I want to basically have this as a pane:   [Genre] - [number of files in genre]

I've tried using: Listcount([Genre]) as just a pane by itself to begin with to test with and all it gives me is: 0 or 1?
I've looked at the wiki but the example there isn't much help.
Hoping you can tell me how it works :)

Title: Re: AW Visualisation
Post by: marko on December 17, 2007, 02:06:27 am

[genre] is not a list type field. It can only contain a single value or nothing. ListCount() is for counting the number of entries in a list type field such as [keywords] or [people]

Currently (build 12.0.395) MC cannot count files in the way that you are trying to do. The best you can do is either use the standard [genre] field for a pane and then read the file count information in the status bar, or add a filename pane next to the genre pane and see the filecount info next to "All" in brackets in the filename pane.

-marko.