Feature description:
I would like the option to set the alignment for the cover art. Currently, the artwork is always center-justified. This means that if the size of the ‘Controls and Information’ section shifts (due to variable-line text boxes), the album art will inevitably shift its vertical position. These additional options will lock the art to the top/bottom of the cover art section, allowing the user to control where the blank space appears.
Problem solved:
If the user has ANY custom strings which are set to variable size (aka ‘At most’ X lines style) and has ENABLED the option ‘Do not crop cover art’, then the cover art will change vertical position every time the text boxes change size. This prevents the user from having variable information display while keeping the artwork in a fixed position.
Brought benefits:
Users who prefer to display uncropped artwork and prefer for said artwork to stay in a fixed position will still be able to show varying lines of text in their custom strings.
Other application solutions:
Additional description and context:
Pic 1: current behavior, all margins at zero. Artwork is centered inside the space available to it. As information size changes, so does artwork position.
Pic 2: current behavior, bottom margin set to 75 – chosen so the artwork just barely hits the top of my screen in the left-hand layout. This anchors the artwork to the top, yes, but at the cost of shrinking the overall size of the artwork in order to maintain the art’s aspect ratio AND the 75pt margin. (Red section is cropped from left/right and aligned to show that bottom margin is identical.)
If the margin was chosen for the right-hand layout to be pushed to the top edge, then the left-hand layout would still have extra space in which to center the art, causing a shift in alignment again. Thus, setting margins is not an ideal solution to this problem.
Pic 3: desired behavior, all margins set to zero. Artwork is always at the top, allowing the lower panel to consume the blank space WITHOUT resizing the artwork. Once all blank space is consumed, only then will album art be scaled down.
NOTE: top/bottom margins in pic 3 can be handled two ways:
1 - Bad ) Non-zero vertical margin immediately shrinks the artwork while maintaining the pre-existing blank space
2 - Good ) Top margin pushes the art down INTO the blank space; bottom margin ‘subtracts’ from the blank space, thus creating a minimum blank space between art and info panel. Non-zero vertical margin only scales the artwork down if all non-margin blank space is already consumed.
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