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kovidgoyal · 12-22-2010, 12:20 PM

You can load a .ui file from a plugin zip file and auto compile it, using PyQT4.uic.compileUI (for an example of doing this look at calibre.gui2.build_forms)

And you can have your plugin tell the calibre preferences dialog to use your custom widget by defining two methods on your plugin

Code:

def config_widget(self):
  ...
  return QWidget

def save_setting(self, takes the widget returned previously and stores the settings)
  ...

Look at the MetadataSource class for an example (though I would recommen using JSONConfig rather than XMLConfig ina modern plugin.

12-22-2010, 12:20 PM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You can load a .ui file from a plugin zip file and auto compile it, using PyQT4.uic.compileUI (for an example of doing this look at calibre.gui2.build_forms) And you can have your plugin tell the calibre preferences dialog to use your custom widget by defining two methods on your plugin Code: def config_widget(self): ... return QWidget def save_setting(self, takes the widget returned previously and stores the settings) ... Look at the MetadataSource class for an example (though I would recommen using JSONConfig rather than XMLConfig ina modern plugin.