Beta testing calibre 4

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I managed to get rid of the grey bars by using the wonderful Job Spy plugin (changed the alternating rows from grey to whitesmoke), so the GUI looks now pretty much like I'm used to.

What about this problem - Post 78

If its still there, try widening the book details panel a little bit.

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Blas

Thanks for sharing the beta version for us! I am already testing it. Is there a way to put a switch to enable dark mode?

try right click(or Esc)->Preferences->Colours

BR

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

What about this problem - Post 78

If its still there, try widening the book details panel a little bit.

BR

Still there. Widening doesn't help.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Still there. Widening doesn't help.

Hmmm, as I wrote in post #14 I used to see what your seeing in the beta in the released version - I didn't report it because a) it was cosmetic, b) I couldn't see a pattern, i.e it would only happen for some books, and c) I tend to 'ignore' (not see/look through) anomalies like that.

I only noticed it was OK in the beta because I was looking for it. But I can't make it happen in 3.47.1; so, it must have 'fixed' itself some time ago.

I may have changed a setting for whatever reason, so I'm attaching my Look & Feel settings. Could be the Font.

BR

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Hmmm, as I wrote in post #14 I used to see what your seeing in the beta in the released version - I didn't report it because a) it was cosmetic, b) I couldn't see a pattern, i.e it would only happen for some books, and c) I tend to 'ignore' (not see/look through) anomalies like that.

I only noticed it was OK in the beta because I was looking for it. But I can't make it happen in 3.47.1; so, it must have 'fixed' itself some time ago.

I may have changed a setting for whatever reason, so I'm attaching my Look & Feel settings. Could be the Font.

BR

I've never seen it in the official version, but then I don't install every Calibre update. It might have been in a version I didn't install.

Changing the font didn't help either. Most of my settings are the same as yours, including font size.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

The text in the book details panel looks weirdly spaced, compared to the old version. I've attached two screenshots, the first is the old Calibre, the second is the beta.

This will be fixed in the next release. basically in order to fix the weirdness BR described, I made the column title not wrap, which works well in horizontal layout where there is plenty of space for long titles. But in vertical layout it should wrap, now changed.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

With this change, I got the first message to show, but that was it. None of the others showed up.

You have to insert the call to processEvents after every show_message() if you are running blocking code on the main loop. It might also be necessary to call processEvents more than once, in which case you do:

while processEvents():
   continue

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

This will be fixed in the next release. basically in order to fix the weirdness BR described, I made the column title not wrap, which works well in horizontal layout where there is plenty of space for long titles. But in vertical layout it should wrap, now changed.

Yay! You're the best! Thank you!

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

while processEvents():
   continue

Thanks! That gave me a hint. Now I'm calling processEvents() after starting every thread. That did the trick.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Yay! You're the best! Thank you!

Good to know we've not been seeing things

[kovidgoyal]

@jackie_w: So the situation with fullscreen images was interesting. Apparently modern versions of chrome (and hence webengine) interpret width="100%" height="100%" on an svg differently. To get the desired result one has to use width="100vw" and height="100vh"

I have modified the viewer code to detect a HTML file with only a single svg image and replace the 100% width/height appropriately. That should take care of it.

[kovidgoyal]

The issue with the system default style was caused by me neglecting to add the relevant Qt style plugin, will be fixed in the next beta.

[jhack-jos]

Dear Kovid,

thank you for your wonderful work.
I come here from bug report #1843558 which I filled today to give you feedback on the Japanese Language support.

I confirm now vertical-text works correctly, but there are a few bugs that appear only for Japanese ebooks.
I attach some screenshots.
1) The first error (error 1 in the screenshots) appears on some Japanese ebooks when opening the file. I attached an ebook for which the error appears so that you can test it yourself.
2) The second error is viewed when using the arrow keys to change page. Basically now I can only "jump sections", but I cannot manage to turn page normally.

Thank you again for your support!
Warmest Regards,
Jacopo

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[kovidgoyal]

@jhack-jos both of those are fixed in the next beta

[jhack-jos]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@jhack-jos both of those are fixed in the next beta

Great! I'll be looking forward to test the next beta!
Thank you!

Warmest Regards,
Jacopo