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Originally Posted by janvanmaar
I have several custom scripts that perform some (ebook/ereader related) actions that Calibre does not implement on its own. I was wondering whether there exists a mechanism to integrate them in the Calibre GUI. It could simply mean adding a button with user specified name to user specified group which would simply run a user specified command and return information about success/failure (through or besides the Calibre job management).
In case there is no mechanism for custom commands from GUI: it should not be difficult for me to write Calibre GUI plugins that would do what I describe above. But is there a way to set things up so that the custom plugins survive a binary Calibre update while all the remaining 'stock' Calibre functionality comes in binary form? I have read about the development environment but I am not sure it would enable this?
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Someone like Kovid can give you the 100% facts about it but from my experiences it seems that the plug-in architecture unfortunately does not include zip plugins for gui interface actions. See
this thread for my experiences of the first gui action I tried to add. It is so close to being possible but there is a unfortunately one existing file (builtins.py) which you have to modify each time for every action you add.
I've made a number of modifications to the source for various gui actions (some submitted as patches, others not), and I just keep pulling down the latest source and merging it into my version of the code. Not a big deal once you know what to do - I was a complete noob to Python and Bazaar so it took a while but got there eventually. As time goes on I make more and more tweaks and "improvements" so it may all go wrong one day of course.