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Originally Posted by theducks
The one you were commenting on 
I originally wrote about the main UI
BTW comments WILL scroll if the contents grows
Also, you seem to be running on a low resolution (small) display
the proportions seem different on Windows 1920x1050 |
I see, in the attachment i used same book, with different edit metadata style, maybe i should change to bigger screen to do that..
Maybe someone with bigger resolution can attach here...
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I solved this by keeping comments in a long text custom column.
Custom long text columns can be edited from the Book List (via F2), the popup editing window is the same as the control embedded within the metadata edit dialogues. But it can be resized to suit ones wants and needs, the last used size is remembered of course.
I have a saved search that finds books with something in Comments, and a saved S&R in bulk metadata edit that moves contents of out Comments into my custom column.
Most of my books do not have downloaded 'comments' - most often I copy and paste text from abstracts or a review, or write them myself.
In the Book List I cloak my custom column with an icon if it has content, via Look and Feel->Column icons. And I show the column contents in the Book details sidebar.
Aside : I never could find a metadata edit window layout I could work with comfortably, even with the a tweak that gives some control over field ordering. So I do 99% of my individual book metadata editing via the book list. Kudos to chaley who did a some mods for custom comments, dates, numbers etc that made it even easier. And to kiwidude for his View Manager plugin that allows me to have multiple Book list column layouts (and sorting) for each physical library.
BR
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I used custom column too, but i rarely use it, because i reserved it for reviews text, in goodreads plugins. so for general used i just used comments box.
why? downloaded metadata like comments was huge time saving. haha
for Web Novel, Web Serial, and Light Novel, I prefer write/copy that myself to the comment box.
i agree, maybe edit metadata window would be huge improving later.
because i have to many custom column, it would be more complicated, yes.. the view manager is a must.. i created a few type for different view for easy edit in metadata, but sometimes it just faster to use edit metadata window..
i'm interested with "moves" comment to other column. how? or could u put the link to it.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
With regard to the default edit metadata view:
The reason you cannot scroll when the mouse is on the comments box, is because the comments box has its own scrolling. As for why you get extra spaces, it is because you have a lot of custom metadata fields which makes the custom metadata tab much longer than the basic one needs to be and the cover and central buttons are vertically centered, which means you see extra space at the top.
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that's why... but it seems i cant fixed it except deleting some custom column.
Oops.. i just need a bigger screen..
