K5 Collections Manager

[NiLuJe]

@ixtab: Fantastic, thanks .

The export of !ASIN stuff looks okay, the lastAccess field too, and I just ran an initial 160 collections import from Calibre. I didn't have much stuff to break, but it looks like it went perfectly fine, everything went in the right place, and the few things that went in an existing nested collection behaved as expected .

I'll give you a shout if everything implodes at my next import .

EDIT: Stupid question: What's the numbers supposed to mean in the status bar during the import? I got that the first one is the number of items in the collection being imported, but the second was was always 0 ;?

[FrigoCoder]

I needed some hack that provides a directory browser in the home screen instead of Amazon's flat out insanity. This comes close but it's slow and still a hassle. No cigar

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

EDIT: Stupid question: What's the numbers supposed to mean in the status bar during the import? I got that the first one is the number of items in the collection being imported, but the second was was always 0 ;?

I didn't think anybody would ever see it - it's the "number of sub-collections kept".

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by FrigoCoder

I needed some hack that provides a directory browser in the home screen instead of Amazon's flat out insanity. This comes close but it's slow and still a hassle. No cigar

Yeah... so? Why don't you just go ahead and code what you need?

[buscon]

Thank you so much for the great plugin!

[FrigoCoder]

Originally Posted by ixtab

Yeah... so? Why don't you just go ahead and code what you need?

Didn't want to diss your work, just expressed it's not for what I was trying to do.

I was thinking of cooking up a new home screen but it's gotta wait a few months. Still, I tried to find alternatives.

[NiLuJe]

@ixtba: Got it, thanks! I certainly had some time to look at the pretty status bar when doing a ~150 collections import .

The second import went fine btw, nothing blew up ^^. I'll just have to tweak the calibre plugin to disregard the current collections.json file and history, since, unless you do an export each time you intend to refresh the collections through Calibre, it risks being not in sync with the the actual CC db, so you end up possibly loosing items in Kindle-only collections (in my case a Reading/TBR collection that's managed entirely from the Kindle).

(Am I right to assume that it can delete *items* from an existing collection during import?)

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

(Am I right to assume that it can delete *items* from an existing collection during import?)

Yes... actually it will replace the content of existing collections with what is found in collections.json. But in addition, it will keep existing sub-collections (only)

[NiLuJe]

@ixtab: Perfect, thanks for the confirmation!

[yiming]

@ixtab

first of all, thank you for creating such a useful app.

the UI is quite intuitive, but because of a few peculiar behaviours of the app, it took me some time to figure out some of the operations.

one area which i hope you will improve on is the "Filter". when one uses the "filter" to search for a collection, the collections that fit the filter condition will be displayed. when one select a particular collection, the name of the collection will appear in the "current collection" box. but the contents of the collection will not show. this is because the "filter" condition still remains. but because the "filter" box is empty the user may be confused and do not know the reason why the contents are not shown. only when one taps on the "filter" box will one see the filter word. and only by deleting the word will the contents in the collection be displayed.

could you fix this, so that when a collection is selected, the "filter" box will be cleared and the contents will be displayed.

thanks.

[yiming]

@ixtab

i've updated the Chinese localisation files to version 1.2.1. they are at:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=47

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=48

[astmario]

Hy, I updated localization file with Serbian translation.

[NiLuJe]

And here's the promised tweaks to the Calibre plugin: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1667

Please test that I didn't break everything, or missed some stuff that would help Touch users .

[atimeofclarity]

Strings for russian localisation.
[ru]
display.allitems=Отображать все пункты
display.collectionsonly=Отображать только коллекции
invisible.show=Показывать скрытые пункты на стартовом экране
invisible.hide=Скрывать скрытые пункты на стартовом экране
import.calibre=Импортировать коллекции из Calibre
export.calibre=Экспортировать коллекции в Calibre
update.dir.menu=Создать коллекции из дирректорий
update.dir.msg=Внимание: это потенциально опасное действие. Будут УДАЛЕНЫ все коллекции с устройства, затем будут созданы коллекции в зависимости от структуры дирректорий документов/папок. Вы действительно хотите продолжить?
update.dir.title=Импорт коллекций
delete.all.menu=Удалить все коллекции
delete.all.msg=Вы уверены?
action.done=Действие выполнено успешно.

[NiLuJe]

@ixtab: A small nitpick: It'd be nice if the few settings from the Menu were persistent... .