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Sladd

06-16-2014 04:47 PM

Loading Plugin in development

Hello !

The question might have been asked a thousand times already, but I can't find the answer to this simple question :

I have a Plugin I'm trying to develop for Calibre, the point is easy, but I need to do some try&errors, and I need to reload the plugin often.

But it's a bit long, actually, I start Calibre, uninstall the actual version, install the new, and relaunch Calibre in order to have the button in the Toolbar.

Is there a better way ?

When I try to change the Plugin.zip in %appdata%/calibre/plugins, the button disapear from the toolbar.

Thanks you for reading me !

PeterT

06-16-2014 10:05 PM

Does http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/crea...ugging-plugins help ?

davidfor

06-16-2014 11:56 PM

I use a command file to package the plugin and start calibre.

Code:

del "KoboUtilities.zip"

"c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "KoboUtilities.zip" __init__.py about.txt action.py book.py common_utils.py container.py dialogs.py jobs.py config.py "KoboUtilities_Help.html" plugin-import-name-KoboUtilities.txt run.cmd images/* translations/*.po translations/*.mo

mode 165,999

calibre-debug -s

calibre-customize -a "KoboUtilities.zip"

SET CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM=D:\Development\GitHub\calibre\src

calibre-debug  -g

That:

Removes and rebuilds the zip file
Stops the current calibre session
Sets the command window size to maximum for my screen
Adds the plugin to calibre
Sets an environment variable to point to the calibre source
Starts calibre in debug mode

Setting the environment variable is only needed if you want to run calibre from source. For a plugin, you don't usually need to.

Sladd

06-17-2014 05:50 AM

Hello !

Both of your method install the plugin, but I don't see the icon in the toolbar, the plugin is just installed, not placed in the toolbar.

No way to go around this ?

davidfor

06-17-2014 10:08 AM

You will need to add it to the appropriate toolbar using the preferences. The installation can prompt the user to do this.

Sladd

06-17-2014 12:15 PM

When I install the plugin byt the preference, yeah, I'm prompted.

But I need to do this manually, every time, it's quite time consuming for a fast workflow, no ?

jackie_w

06-17-2014 07:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sladd (Post 2853340)

When I install the plugin byt the preference, yeah, I'm prompted.

But I need to do this manually, every time, it's quite time consuming for a fast workflow, no ?

Once the plugin icon is on your chosen toolbar you shouldn't need to add it each time you update the plugin zip file - at least I don't.

If the icon is no longer visible after a calibre restart it's probably because there is an error in the updated plugin and it has failed to load correctly during the restart. Restarting calibre in debug mode (calibre-debug -g) would show these errors in the debug log.

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