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macellan · 05-21-2010, 04:31 AM

Hello,

We are currently working on a project that includes a simple GUI for e-book management. Calibre's GUI is too far complicated for our needs. So we decided to simplify it and add some new functionalities.

First of all we need to add some new metadata types. Instead of Publish Date, our e-books should have another metadata as Publish Date on Newspaper. We also want to filter our e-books by using these new metadata types.

We checked out calibres database structure and figured out to create a new upgrade version function. That way, calibre creates a new table in metadata.db at first init.

The problem is, we could'nt manage to display new types on GUI yet. Any suggestions or any "how to" kind of documents you know, that could help us on this point would be appreciated.

Thanks.

05-21-2010, 04:31 AM	#1
macellan Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: none	Calibre development Hello, We are currently working on a project that includes a simple GUI for e-book management. Calibre's GUI is too far complicated for our needs. So we decided to simplify it and add some new functionalities. First of all we need to add some new metadata types. Instead of Publish Date, our e-books should have another metadata as Publish Date on Newspaper. We also want to filter our e-books by using these new metadata types. We checked out calibres database structure and figured out to create a new upgrade version function. That way, calibre creates a new table in metadata.db at first init. The problem is, we could'nt manage to display new types on GUI yet. Any suggestions or any "how to" kind of documents you know, that could help us on this point would be appreciated. Thanks.