Plugin to scroll through files?

[DrivingTest]

Hi all, I'm fairly new to Sigil. I'm using it create interactive ebooks that have a lot of individual HTML pages, and in order to check each one for accurate appearance I have to double click each one to open it in the preview window. Does anyone know of a way (plugin) that would allow me to just work my down the book browser window and preview each page in turn without having to double click it?

[BetterRed]

The Tools->Reports->HTML files option provides a traversable list of files.

One must double click on a file to open it, but maybe the devs can enhance to have Enter open the current file.

BR

[KevinH]

If a Preview is all you need, open it in PageEdit from Sigil and use the new key shortcuts to advance each file one by one. Or load any of the available Reader plugins and do the same.

[BetterRed]

Are there keyboard shortcuts in PE that map to the blue left and right arrow buttons?

If so, can you post what are they, and if they are configurable? Couldn't find anything in the doco or Preferences.

BR

[KevinH]

Weren't you the one who requested them?

Ctrl+PgDown - Next File In List
Ctrl+PgUp - Previous File In List

These were added in the most recent version of PageEdit.

From the PageEdit ChangeLog.txt and release announcement:

PageEdit-1.9.10
  New Features
   - support building with Qt6
   - make Qt6 versions use their own ini file for settings
   - add Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown shortcuts to Prev and Next actions

  Bug Fixes
   - harden URLInterceptor to dead QWidget bugs in Qt
   - setMovable true on QToolbars to work around broken linux theme issues
   - update sigil gumbo version with upstream fixes

Edit: It was your suggestion:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=346353

[BetterRed]

Can I suggest you put a hint in the tool tip, that's one of the primary ways I learn shortcuts, the other is by reading the doco, remembering what I wrote somewhere three months ago comes a poor third.

Hopefully it will help DrivingTest

BR

Puzzle (for me) Solved: I would have downloaded PE from https://sigil-ebook.com/pageedit/download/

I see now that the shortcuts are documented on the https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/PageEdit/releases page. So, in future, instead of clicking on the big green button I'll go there so I can read the release notes.

[KevinH]

Unfortunately Ctrl maps to a different key on MacOS and other shortcuts are OS defined as well so adding them to the Tooltips is not easy especially from a translation perspective.

Here is a list of the PageEdit shortcuts according to its main.ui file but these are platform specific mappings (they differ between Windows and macOS). I will try to get this info added to the PageEdit user guide as some point.

Mainly these are the original Sigil BookView default shortcuts carried over.

FYI - Some still retain their old Alt key sequences which just cause problems on some international keyboards and so I have replaced those in the next release (and marked them as such below).

PageEdit Keyboard Shortcuts

  actionSave
    Save the current file.
    Ctrl+S
  
  actionPrint
    Print the current Page.
    Ctrl+P
  
  actionSaveAs
    Save the current file with a different filename.
    Ctrl+Shift+S
    
  actionCut
    Cuts the selected text from the document and puts it on the clipboard.
    OS Standard Shortcut
    
  actionPaste
    Pastes the content from the clipboard into the file.
    OS Standard Shortcut
  
  actionUndo
    Reverts the changes of the previous operation.
    Ctrl+Z
    
  actionRedo
    Restores the changes reverted by the previous Undo action.
    Ctrl+Y
    
  actionCopy
    Copies the selected text and puts it on the clipboard.
    OS Standard Shortcut
  
  actionAlignCenter
    Center the paragraph.
    Ctrl+E
    
  actionAlignJustify
    Align the paragraph to both the left and right margins.
    Ctrl+J
    
  actionBold
    Make the selected text bold.
    Ctrl+B
    
  actionItalic
    Make the selected text italic.
    Ctrl+I
  
  actionOpen
    Open a file from disk.
    Ctrl+O
  
  actionUnderline
    Underline the selected text.
    Ctrl+U
  
  actionCasingLowercase
    Set selected text to lowercase.
    Alt+L (will be Ctrl+Alt+L in the next release)
  
  actionCasingUppercase
    Set selected text to uppercase.
    Alt+U (will be Ctrl+Alt+U in the next release)
    
  actionExit
    Quit
    Ctrl+Q

  actionInsertBulletedList
    Create a bulleted list from selection.
    Ctrl+Shift+L

  actionZoomIn
    Zoom In
    Ctrl+=
  
  actionZoomOut
    Zoom Out
    Ctrl+-
  
  actionIncreaseIndent
    Increase the indent level of the paragraph.
    Ctrl+Alt+M
  
  actionDecreaseIndent
    Decrease the indent level of the paragraph.
    Ctrl+Shift+M
  
  actionInsertSGFSectionMarker
    Insert Sigil split file marker
    Ctrl+Shift+Return

  actionPreferences
    Preferences...
    F5
  
  actionZoomReset
    Zoom Reset
    Ctrl+0
  
  actionHeading1
    Format paragraph as a level 1 heading.
    Ctrl+1
  
  actionHeading2
    Format paragraph as a level 2 heading.
    Ctrl+2
  
  actionHeading3
    Format paragraph as a level 3 heading.
    Ctrl+3
  
  actionHeading4
    Format paragraph as a level 4 heading.
    Ctrl+4

  actionHeading5
    Format paragraph as a level 5 heading.
    Ctrl+5
  
  actionHeading6
    Format paragraph as a level 6 heading.
    Ctrl+6

  actionHeadingNormal
    Format paragraph as a normal paragraph.
    Ctrl+7

  actionSelectAll
    Select all text in the document.
    Ctrl+A
  
  actionInspect
    Inspect the page.
    Ctrl+F5

  actionFind
    Find text in the page
    Ctrl+F

  actionNext
    Next file in navigation list
    Ctrl+PgDown

  actionPrev
    Previous file in navigation list
     Ctrl+PgUp

  actionInsertFile
    Select existing image, video or audio files from your book to insert into the text.
    Ctrl+Shift+I

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Puzzle (for me) Solved: I would have downloaded PE from https://sigil-ebook.com/pageedit/download/

I see now that the shortcuts are documented on the https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/PageEdit/releases page. So, in future, instead of clicking on the big green button I'll go there so I can read the release notes.[/SIZE]

The changes are also documented on the release posts on our blog: https://sigil-ebook.com/blog/

Each release notice also has a big green button to click.

If you subscribe to the feed there, you could avoid github altogether if you like (though all links to that github release pages [for both programs and user guides]) are there as well).

EDIT: easy enough for me to add a link to PageEdit's raw changelog.txt file to the general sigil-ebook.com download page, though. I'll probably do that as well.

[DrivingTest]

Originally Posted by KevinH

If a Preview is all you need, open it in PageEdit from Sigil and use the new key shortcuts to advance each file one by one. Or load any of the available Reader plugins and do the same.

Ah, that's just what I was looking for, didn't realise I could do that. Thanks very much it's a real time saver and just what I needed!

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Unfortunately Ctrl maps to a different key on MacOS and other shortcuts are OS defined as well so adding them to the Tooltips is not easy especially from a translation perspective.

Here is a list of the PageEdit shortcuts according to its main.ui file but these are platform specific mappings (they differ between Windows and macOS). I will try to get this info added to the PageEdit user guide as some point.

Mainly these are the original Sigil BookView default shortcuts carried over.

FYI - Some still retain their old Alt key sequences which just cause problems on some international keyboards and so I have replaced those in the next release (and marked them as such below).

Thanks Kevin, I'll add this to the similar list you gave me for Sigil.

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

The changes are also documented on the release posts on our blog: https://sigil-ebook.com/blog/

Each release notice also has a big green button to click.

If you subscribe to the feed there, you could avoid github altogether if you like (though all links to that github release pages [for both programs and user guides]) are there as well).

EDIT: easy enough for me to add a link to PageEdit's raw changelog.txt file to the general sigil-ebook.com download page, though. I'll probably do that as well.

Never been to the Blog pages till now :lol:

I'll make sure I go to the github releases page in future. I can't remember how or why I got tangled up in the sigil-ebook site.

BR

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I'll make sure I go to the github releases page in future. I can't remember how or why I got tangled up in the sigil-ebook site.

Because it's easier to navigate than github? Especially with the prolific big green download buttons and release notes?