Sidebar/Toolbar

The sidebar is only avaible with columns UI (developed by musicmusic, official webpage ). If a lot of people use it above their playlist, it is still an anormal use of it, it's normal place is on the left. The abilities of this component is not extraordinary in itself but it will allow you to use some very interesting components. I won't describe all of them as it is quite hard to enumerate them, I will just say a few words about the more used ones.

The Toolbar is for its part quite functional. With some components, you can transform it into a tiny powerful console.

Just remember that adding the components described below will probably increase the CPU usage by foobar, as a consequence, take care ta add only the useful ones (for you) /

Configure

Toolbar

Sidebar

Use

It couldn't be more simple, you just need to right click on the corresponding place: in the sidebar for the sidebar, at the top of your screen for the toolbar.
Toolbars
Panels
Visualizations

Tips

To set the panels above your playlist, just use list all toolbars, then add the panels/toolbars/visualiszations that you want to use. Organize them as you want them to be displayed. And finally just use the minimum height values of the corresponding panels. As it is not an usual way to use the toolbar, you may have some crappy things. Use it knowing that it may create some dislaying problems. Musicmusic may fix this into the next version of UI columns.

To have tabbed panels, just use uie tabs. See here for more details. uie tabs

To get G-force without any edge or in a tab/panel, just go to your "Documents and settings/<username>/G-force" folder open the Preferences (foobar2000).txt file and change the line from "NoBo=0" to "NoBo=1". You won't be able to resize the window so, choose precisely the position and size of the window. to put it as a tab, just create a fake tab called G-Force and place precisely the window. (The window without border will take the place of the window with borders included before the change).