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Old 08-05-2017, 09:59 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by wishingstar View Post
That's unfortunate, thanks for responding though.

I wonder if it would be possible to add an option in the next version to take the system colors into account, something like "if it's darker than x, invert colors in metadata dialog"
Have a Look at the following plug in. It currently will mot do what you want but it will change colours on the main GUI screen.

Summary:
A tool bag of useful tools in two totally different categories: [1] GUI Related; [2] Job Details Dialog Related.

'GUI Tools':

Change Main GUI Text, Background, Alternating Row, VL Buttons, Tool Bar, Search Bar and Buttons, and Status Bar Colors

It will also

Visualize Metadata (with export option)
Apply View Manager Views based on Virtual Library
Search Bar Dropdowns - Increase Visible Items and Saved Search History to 100
Edit Metadata Dropdowns - Increase Visible Items to 100
Keyboard Shortcuts to Auto-fill Textual Custom Columns
List Active Keyboard Shortcuts
Invert Current Selection of Books
Virtual Library Helper - Create Search Criteria Using Selected Book IDs
Virtual Library Helper - View VLs Sorted by VL Criteria
Mega-Metadata Reference Book Creation Dropdown Helper
Resize Columns to Fit
Compress Column Widths Uniformly
Select & Open Arbitrary Programs and Files
Change 'Last-Modified Date' of Selected Books
Back up and Restore 'Last-Modified Date' for all books in current library
Purge Library-specific Preferences [Selected Plug-ins]
Purge metadata.opf Backup Queue
Protect/Unprotect a Custom Column from the 'Edit Metadata' dialogs (excluding the 'S&R' tab within Bulk Edit).
Copy 'Saved Searches' of the Current Library to a Target Library
Automatically Delete Temporary 'Reading Lists' at Calibre Shutdown
Extract Original Title/Translator to Update Custom Columns (EPUBs)
Bulk Convert HTML Comments to Plain Text [Selected Books]
Ignore Copy-to-Library Missing Custom Columns Messages for Selected From/To Library Combinations
Vacuum/Compress metadata.db En Masse [All Other Calibre Libraries]
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