[zdt0343]

Hi -

I've been using calibre for the better part of a year on my dual-boot (Win7/Fedora) laptop. Recently I set it to auto-download a few newspapers every morning when the program is launched. This launch takes place in a startup script, either through a line in a Windows batchfile or a Linux/bash shell script (respectively):

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibre.exe" --start-in-tray
--or--
calibre --start-in-tray &

OS1: Windows 7 64-bit, SP1
OS2: Fedora 16, 64-bit, 3.1 kernel
calibre version: 0.8.30 (latest)

Everything works swimmingly with a live internet connection. When there is no connection available, however, calibre complains (appropriately enough) in a dialog box that:

"ERROR: No internet connection / Cannot download news as no internet connection is active."

The program then exits, which to me is the unexpected behavior. My expectation is that the program would continue to run in the tray despite the lack of a connection. This behavior occurs in both operating systems and is repeatable under the circumstances described. The behavior does not occur when calibre is launched without the "start-in-tray" parameter.

Reviews of the forums here and elsewhere generated several mentions of the specific error dialog box in question, but none appeared to address these specific questions:

1) Is this behavior as designed? If so, can anyone suggest any workaround(s) to prevent the calibre program from exiting after being unable to download news? (Launching with the /MIN tag in Windows, for example, does not do what I want it to do, as the program then shows up in the taskbar rather than the tray.)

2) Is there a mechanism through which to stop calibre from generating the dialog box about the lack of a network connection and instead, say, delay the auto-download of news for some amount of time or until there is an active connection, etc. Admittedly, this second question may be a bridge too far, but thought I'd ask anyway.

Great program. Appreciate any input on the above.

Regards...