04-22-2015, 12:26 AM | #1 |
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Add Custom User Configuration Popup to Viewer Plugin
Hello,
I have created a viewer plugin, and would like to know how to include settings in the toolbar on the left of the viewer (similar to preferences). I would also like to know how I would be able to save and get preference values, as well as display them for editing to the user. I saw on the documentation for plugins the save_settings(config_widget) and config_widget() methods, but I do not know how to implement them. Could anyone provide me with more information on this? |
04-22-2015, 04:48 AM | #2 |
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You can add any buttons you like to the viewer toolbars, see the documentation of the ViewerPlugin.customize_ui method on how to do that.
Those buttons can trigger any action you like, including showing a dialog with config options. You will just need to use the standard PyQt QDialog class to create such a dialog. As for how to store the configuration options, you can store them in any way that you like, just choose a unique name for the config file, so that it does not conflict with the rest of calibre's config files. Use the calibre JSONConfig class to manage the config file easily. |
04-23-2015, 12:43 AM | #3 |
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Should I implement the ConfigWidgetBase or just implement isCustomizable(), save_settings(), and config_widget in my main plugin class?
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04-23-2015, 02:07 AM | #4 |
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You dont need to implement any of those. Those are all for plugins that dont want their own config UI and are intended t be configured via Preferences->Plugins
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