Notice about supported Windows versions
Columns UI now requires Windows 10 or newer. Version 3.4.1 is the last to support Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
Changes
Features
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Two new fields,
%is_dark%and%is_light%, are now available in the playlist view display, style, sorting and global variables scripts. [#1732]%is_dark%is defined when dark mode is active and%is_light%is defined when light mode is active. The fields can be used with$if()for styling conditional on the current mode. -
The playlist view search bar font can now be configured independently of the items font. [#1731]
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The unsupported operating system error message that appears when trying to use Columns UI on Windows 8.1 was improved. [#1722]
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Pressing multimedia keys no longer shows hidden focused item indicators. [#1723]
Additionally, the Tab key unhides hidden focused item indicators in more scenarios.
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If a keyboard shortcut has been assigned to Ctrl+F, pressing Ctrl+F when the playlist view search bar is focused will now trigger the assigned shortcut. [#1733]
Bug fixes
- The built-in spectrum analyser visualisation frame rate is no longer temporarily reduced if execution was paused (for example, using a debugger) while the visualisation was rendering a frame. [#1734]
Internal changes
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The component is now compiled with Visual Studio 2026 toolset version 14.51.
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Some dependencies were updated. [#1730]