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Old 01-14-2025, 05:37 AM   #1
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Exclamation Plugin support for adding context menu item
Hello, I want to create a plugin that does something with the selected text. I read the plugin documentation and found nothing related to context menus. Is it possible to add a context menu item via plugin?
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Old 01-14-2025, 08:15 AM   #2
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Selected text in what?
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Old 01-14-2025, 02:34 PM   #3
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Hello, I want to create a plugin that does something with the selected text. I read the plugin documentation and found nothing related to context menus. Is it possible to add a context menu item via plugin?
If you mean selected text in a book's content you should look at the Book viewer's Bookmark feature, see =>> The calibre E-book viewer

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I think it only works on EPUBs and maybe AZW3s. The bookmarks are written to format file - i.e. the "whatever - whoever.epub" file in the book folder.

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If you mean selected text in a book's content you should look at the Book viewer's Bookmark feature, see =>> The calibre E-book viewer
The Viewer does not have a plugin framework, only the main calibre and the Editor.
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The Viewer does not have a plugin framework, only the main calibre and the Editor.
Where did I suggest the Viewer had plugins… explicitly or implicitly. I simply referred the OP to a built-in feature ("the Book viewer's Bookmark feature") that does what I think they want.

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Where did I suggest the Viewer had plugins… explicitly or implicitly. I simply referred the OP to a built-in feature ("the Book viewer's Bookmark feature") that does what I think they want.

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