[Old Thread] (viewer) Ignoring left-off position

sciurius · 11-11-2010, 10:23 AM

For reading a structured document non-sequentially I would like the viewer to always start at the beginning (an index page). Effectively, ebook-viewer should not load and save bookmarks from the epub document.
Is this possible in an elegant way? I've considered adding a command line option for this, but the actual code that handles the bookmarks load/save seems too generic to change for this purpose.

Manichean · 11-11-2010, 10:36 AM

Run calibre from source and patch the relevant code to not load bookmarks?

sciurius · 11-11-2010, 10:58 AM

Yes. That's the brute force way.
I'm hoping that there's also a more elegant way so other users can also benefit.

Manichean · 11-11-2010, 11:04 AM

Implement it as a toggleable option in the preferences and submit the fix to Kovid?

kovidgoyal · 11-11-2010, 11:12 AM

Just press Ctrl+Home when the viewer starts, it will take you to the start of the document.

sciurius · 11-11-2010, 11:47 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, but a touchscreen PC does not have Ctrl-Home

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kovidgoyal · 11-11-2010, 11:48 AM

If you can do right clicks, the goto start action is accessible via the right click context menu as well.

sciurius · 11-11-2010, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Manichean

Implement it as a toggleable option in the preferences and submit the fix to Kovid?

That would be my preferred solution. Now if he only would give me a clue how to get at the command line options from within the iterator...

kovidgoyal · 11-11-2010, 11:52 AM

you dont need to access the options in the iterator, you need to do it in viewer.main, where the last saved position is loaded.

sciurius · 11-11-2010, 01:57 PM

The idea is to have books that have a first page that is a customised table of contents.
I went with the following approach:
* command line option: --start, when used:
* the book will be positioned at the first page (implicit goto_start())
* the [TOC] button will behave as goto_start()

This works for me. Anyone think this is more generally useful?

sciurius · 09-08-2011, 08:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sciurius

* command line option: --start, when used:
* the book will be positioned at the first page (implicit goto_start())
* the [TOC] button will behave as goto_start()

Here's the patch, updated for 0.8.17. Hope it will be useful.
Note that the --start functionality is different from the remember_current_page option.

11-11-2010, 10:23 AM	#1
sciurius Enthusiast Posts: 49 Karma: 102 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 52.88504N 06.85904E Device: PC	[Old Thread] (viewer) Ignoring left-off position For reading a structured document non-sequentially I would like the viewer to always start at the beginning (an index page). Effectively, ebook-viewer should not load and save bookmarks from the epub document. Is this possible in an elegant way? I've considered adding a command line option for this, but the actual code that handles the bookmarks load/save seems too generic to change for this purpose.

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11-11-2010, 10:36 AM	#2
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	Run calibre from source and patch the relevant code to not load bookmarks?

11-11-2010, 10:58 AM	#3
sciurius Enthusiast Posts: 49 Karma: 102 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 52.88504N 06.85904E Device: PC	Yes. That's the brute force way. I'm hoping that there's also a more elegant way so other users can also benefit.

11-11-2010, 11:04 AM	#4
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	Implement it as a toggleable option in the preferences and submit the fix to Kovid?

11-11-2010, 11:12 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,200 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Just press Ctrl+Home when the viewer starts, it will take you to the start of the document.

11-11-2010, 11:47 AM	#6
sciurius Enthusiast Posts: 49 Karma: 102 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 52.88504N 06.85904E Device: PC	Thanks for the suggestion, but a touchscreen PC does not have Ctrl-Home .

11-11-2010, 11:48 AM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,200 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If you can do right clicks, the goto start action is accessible via the right click context menu as well.

11-11-2010, 11:52 AM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,200 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	you dont need to access the options in the iterator, you need to do it in viewer.main, where the last saved position is loaded.

11-11-2010, 01:57 PM	#10
sciurius Enthusiast Posts: 49 Karma: 102 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 52.88504N 06.85904E Device: PC	The idea is to have books that have a first page that is a customised table of contents. I went with the following approach: * command line option: --start, when used: * the book will be positioned at the first page (implicit goto_start()) * the [TOC] button will behave as goto_start() This works for me. Anyone think this is more generally useful?

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