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01-25-2011, 12:32 AM | #272 |
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Actually, I had read those posts, and I had noticed that Kiwidude had updated a fixed version of the plugin and edited his post before I had downloaded the plugin.
My comments were driven by the fact that the fixed plugin does not raise any errors but does grey out the cover-related menu items for books without formats. Dave. |
01-25-2011, 12:33 AM | #273 |
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Right, I just read all the last few posts "properly" now my nephews have finally gone, spotted the perfectly reasonable suggestion of editing covers for books with no formats and upped the new zip (again). My apologies to the couple of you who downloaded in the meantime and many thanks for calling me out on the bug I left in it.
My last minute epiphany today of one last feature (disabling the menus where cover/formats not available) clearly bit me, should know better by now. I didn't count on the constant need for attention of my 5/8yr old visiting nephews every 2 minutes and did half a job on it. |
01-25-2011, 12:42 AM | #274 |
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Kiwidude,
I just tried your most recent upload, and it works like a charm -- thanks! Gotta love the near instantaneous tech support . Dave. |
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01-25-2011, 06:23 AM | #276 |
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Many thanks for these plugins, especially Search The Internet and Open With They're extremely useful and have saved a lot of time. If I could I'd send you some e-beers |
01-25-2011, 08:48 AM | #277 |
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I recently added 35 new eBooks. With a little regular expression help, it was a breeze to have a search pull them all up, and then use the Search Online plugin to locate the book on Goodreads and add it to my 'to read' list with two simple clicks. Calibre, especially with these great new plugins, has become crazy good! Thanks for all he hard work all of you have put into this!
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01-25-2011, 01:23 PM | #278 |
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Kiwidude,
After playing with the Open with plugin a bit more, I had one other minor comment: Paint.NET supports native 64-bit, so the path for Paint.NET should be the same for both 32-bit and 64-bit. The Paint.NET installer automatically determines that you are running 64-bit and installs the 64-bit version under Program Files rather than installing the 32-bit version under Program Files(x86). Dave. |
01-25-2011, 05:47 PM | #279 | |
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GRiker has been kind enough to send me some changes for Mac OSX support (they would also need a small change to Calibre). In addition I have decided that each platform should have it's own list of default applications - no point in displaying all those Windows apps to a Mac user etc. So I will do a v1.3 of the Open With plugin to come out in a few days. If there are any linux users out there who can offer me a little help with a couple of questions (does the plugin work currently, and some paths to some applications like Sigil and some graphics program defaults) please either PM me or leave a note here. |
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01-25-2011, 08:30 PM | #280 |
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Just wanted to say thanks for your hard work and for explaining how to install these plugins for those of us who are kinda new at all this.
David. |
01-25-2011, 09:27 PM | #281 |
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Thanks to all of you for the positive feedback on the plugins, e-beers etc. I apologise for not replying individually but didn't want to fill the thread with even more rambling from me in response - I do read them all though . It is both interesting and gratifying to hear how the plugins are being used. To some extent they have been to fill gaps for things *I* wanted in Calibre and the rest just an intellectual challenge. That they help others too is a nice bonus.
I'm still working through a backlog of upgrading some of the other plugins... here is a tentative 'roadmap' if you like... The "add/remove user category" plugins are being combined into a single "User Category" plugin and loads of new stuff being added to it. Such as only enabling menu options based on whether it already is in that user category, a dialog to choose authors/tags if there are multiple, ability to rename user categories (no way to do that elsewhere I can see), menu items to "show in tag viewer" and open the maintain dialog etc. The "Open Epub in Editor" will quietly disappear as the "Open with" plugin completely replaces and supercedes it and I don't want to maintain/confuse new users with both. I'm thinking of adding some more features to the "Quick Preferences" plugin. Such as the ability to switch the "Save template" for those of you who have different requirements for multiple devices/outputs. If anyone has any further ideas/suggestions for other preferences they end up changing frequently as they "do stuff" let me know. "Search from clipboard" will get an icon in case you place it on your toolbar and a gui letting you change the keyboard shortcuts. I'm wary of any currently hard-coded ones suddenly conflicting with new Calibre features. Perhaps one day Calibre will have a centralised action/shortcut key registry I can integrate with so users can change shortcuts in a single dialog rather than each plugin (and Calibre shortcuts as well) - there's an open ticket for it but imagine it is well down the priority list. Certainly it would be nice to "reclaim" some of the shortcut keys which imho got burnt too early on less used Calibre features. Like Alt-P for a similar publisher search, really, when was the last time anyone used that? Likewise Alt+T is fairly useless if you have multiple tags per book... The last remaining plugin of mine is "Walk Search History" which being more recent doesn't need too much tinkering. As I have it on my toolbar a few times I've wondered about actually listing the searches in the dropdown like you see in a browser. It would virtually replicate what the search dropdown box does, but at least you could do everything in one place when you aren't sure what your previous search was. And of course there is the potential of a GoodReads plugin which sounds like a bit of fun. So plenty to keep me out of trouble. As any always suggestions for extra things you would like to see in these are welcomed, particularly if I'm about to dig it out for an overhaul anyway! |
01-26-2011, 03:34 AM | #282 | |
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I still can't make keyboard shortcuts make work. I must be doing something wrong. How do I define a shortcut? Just type Ctrl+s for "Switch author name" into a text box in preferences dialog, or do I have to do something else? I was trying to define keyboard shortcuts on my Linux and also on my Windows (at work) and ... nothing. The default Calibre shortcuts, for example Alt+A for "Show books by the same author" DO work, so it isn't like keyboard shortcuts are completely broken on my computers. I have one more suggestion for a Quick preferences plugin. It would be an absolutely killer feature if the icon on toolbar reflected the state of the settings. I will provide icons (128 at the moment, to cover all permutations), if you wish (I do not know how, yet, but I do not expect problems here) Icon might look like grayed out Preferences icon with a text overlay. Or you could use the text, like 1sRA in the icon title. Or change the color of SRA letters to reflect the state. 2SrA would mean: the second Regular expression for import, Swap author name ON, Read metadata from file OFF, Add formats to existing books ON. This way you could see settings at the first glance. Or, the choices could be directly on the toolbar. The idea is to see the state of preferences at a glance. |
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I think we need to get the keyboard shortcuts working for you - that way you can just issue those before you do an action and that way be sure that the preferences have switched if moving the mouse to dropdown the toolbar button is too inconvenient. What you "really" want is some kind of information panel displayed on screen with info in it. Unfortunately that would require changes to Calibre source and are not able to be done with plugins I believe. Of course you could try campaigning Kovid via a ticket for a "widget plugin" mechanism to allow such a panel to be added to the gui, perhaps others have ideas for how that could be used... Only other ideas I have are: (1) I could update the status bar text for the tooltip of that button with some kind of summary of settings. However that still requires moving the mouse over the button. (2) Adding an additional keyboard shortcut action to the plugin which displays that information for you. Directly in the statusbar would be easiest, and no windows to close. Alternatively "maybe" the shortcut could pop-open the toolbar button as though you had mouse clicked on it, then you hit esc to close it. I don't know if the latter is technically possible but I would assume it is. Of course it also relies on getting a keyboard shortcuts to work for you |
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It was just an idle suggestion. There are much more pressing (and potentially more useful) issues on the wishlist from other users. I am extremely happy with the plugin as it is. You can't replace core Calibre functionality (like customizable floating toolbars, or, even better, context driven customizable statusbar) with a plugin. (*) understand "Even more annoying to non-subscribers" interface. ;-) |
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