[GUI Plugin] Job Spy

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

[1] Sorting on BookID should be numeric, see attachment (note the Snippet - maybe it should be first two lines if first is very short - without the line feed).

[2] I'd also prefer to set and forget a default Sort sequence - for me it would be BookID ascending.

[3] The RegExp field doesn't appear to have a 'Alt+' shortcut

[4] The following error can also occur if the user does a NV search and then does a book list search that takes NV search results out of sight. You might want to add " or you did library search, or clicked a VL tab". I hit Alt+A in the book list which does a search for current author

BR

[1] Leading padding of one or more zeroes in BookID (only if required for numbers shorter than the longest) will be in the next version.

[2] It just so happens the default sort sequence is already BookID ascending, but the new shortcuts to easily sort the Search Results by any of the 4 columns make sorting and re-sorting painless. Sorting a column alternates between Ascending and Descending. Each column tracks where it is separately.

[3] It is now a pushbutton with a shortcut that opens pop-up text input box, and then pours the specified regular expression where it should go.

[4] The info message has been enhanced to include the message for that scenario.


DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.229 -2023-04-08 Notes Viewer: Various enhancements.

Several of my earlier posts from today, 2023-04-08, describe the minutiae of the changes.


DaltonST

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

Version 1.0.229 -2023-04-08 Notes Viewer: Various enhancements.

In my Creators library, my default NV column is #links, it typically contains a mixture of https://, calibre://, file:/// and mailto:// URIs wrapped in <a> tags, i.e. <a href="xxxx://blah-blah">Link</a>

When I start NV, the HTML and View radio buttons are already 'pressed' and the #links column for the current 'book' is shown. ✔

If I click in the view area (or hit Backtab 3 times) then hit Tab the first link will be selected, if I press Enter it will 'happen' - e.g. a web page will open, my mail client will spring to life. If I hit Tab again the second link will be selected. ✔

It would be good to have a hotkey to do what the mouse click or 3 Backtabs already do - give the multiline text box keyboard focus, Alt+N would seem appropriate.

BR

[BetterRed]

I'll be back in a bit to make some observations on Search.

[BetterRed]

I think you've got the Sort by Title and Sort by Author 'inverted'

IMO the selector text should show the sort value (i.e BookId, Author, Title or Snippet) - it always displays the Title.

In Entity libraries (chaley calls them meta-meta libraries) there is probably only one book per Entity to act as the placeholder for the Entity's metadata. I prefer to use "Placeholder" as the title, rather than leaving it empty and seeing "Unknown".



Having to set the sort sequence every time NV is used is a pain, ideally it should be by column in the Options panel e.g.



Idle thought - should NV be a separate plugin.

BR

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.230 -2023-04-09 Disallow user error setting Lock checkbox when it is illogical. Correct Search Results sorting column assignment error. Search Results TableView enhanced to show the current sorted-by value in the first column, and hence in the Search Results dropdown box when the results close. New Library-Specific Options: Search Results sorting parameters.

See the attached image for details.


DaltonST

[BetterRed]

Excellent: having the sort specs in Options is heaps easier for me, and having the sort value in the selector bar is far better too.

BookID sorting is still off kilter - see attachment:

My only bugaboo now is that when I do anything in the book list, NV reacts accordingly, although I respect that suits some use cases.

a Sleep/WakeUp toggle button alongside the Refresh, Exit buttons, don't think I need to tell you what they would do

BR

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.231 -2023-04-10 New "Freeze" Notes Viewer checkbox so that anything you might do outside of NV has no impact, and some things within NV are disabled until NV is "unfrozen". Padding with zeroes of BookID used in Sorting Search Results numerically fixed. Context Menu enhancements. Search Results List column widths optimized (see the attached image).


DaltonST

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

Version 1.0.231 -2023-04-10 New "Freeze" Notes Viewer checkbox so that anything you might do outside of NV has no impact, and some things within NV are disabled until NV is "unfrozen". Padding with zeroes of BookID used in Sorting Search Results numerically fixed. Context Menu enhancements. Search Results List column widths optimized (see the attached image).

Freeze makes an enormous difference to my usage.

After checking Freeze I minimise NV do whatever, restore the minimised window, uncheck freeze and carry on with what I was doing.

BR

[BetterRed]

I just discovered I can open multiple NV windows, viz:



Which creates problems when I exit NV (via the Alt+X door)

And 'strange things' happen when I do a library Quick switch with multiple NV windows active .

For my usage - I would prefer to only ever have one NV window - if I press F3 (my NV shortcut) and minimise NV, and then press F3 again I'd prefer that the NV parked on the desktop be restored.

BR

[DaltonST]

See the attached image.

Notes Viewer: Name of the Source of the Sort Value; BookID of current book; HTML Editor; Regression error: hole in prohibition of multiple instances of NV has been closed.


DaltonST

[BetterRed]

I'm on to it

BR

[BetterRed]

As you can guess I like it. Can I assume changes to the LT Editor will be inherited by NV?

I have to ask, possibly again - why can't NV include the Comments [dc:description] column?

BR

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

As you can guess I like it. Can I assume changes to the LT Editor will be inherited by NV?

I have to ask, possibly again - why can't NV include the Comments [dc:description] column?

BR

[1] That would be a bad assumption, since it is not that simple. In the beginning, in late 2018, my new Entities Manager plugin made its own revised copy of Calibre's Editor to work within EM as its "Entity Note Editor", which at that time used PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets. QtWebKit was deprecated in Qt 5.5 and removed in Qt 5.6. So, Entities Manager had to update its copy of Editor to support QWebEngineView instead. For Calibre 6, I changed the EM Editor to use qt.core instead of PyQt5. Notes Viewer now has a slightly revised copy of the current EM Note Editor.

[2] As I said once before, "Comments" is a Standard Column, not a Custom Column. Apples and Oranges. Never the twain shall meet. NV was designed and developed both implicitly and/or (especially) explicitly to use:

• Only fields found in field_metadata.custom_field_metadata()
• Only fields starting with a "#"
• mi.get_user_metadata()
• mi.set_user_metadata()

To add an exception for even a single Standard Column would be ugly, offensive to my structured programming sensibilities, bug-inducing, a lot of work, and generally a PITA. No thank you.

If it really matters that much to you, evaluate the cost-benefit ratio of cloning the Standard Comments Column in a new #column, and use chaley's "Save Composite Custom Columns" plugin to hard-copy the data into it every time Calibre closes.



I gather that the beta test version is cleared for normal release.


DaltonST

[BetterRed]

Oh yes release it by all means - the new HTML editor has removed one of the reasons I've been breaking out of NV.

I understand your position on why you want to avoid standard columns.

When I want to edit a book's Comments, I copy it to a custom column (#blurb/Blurb), edit it, and then copy it back to Comments (dc:description) - the presence of a value in both Comments and Blurb is a signal I probably changed the original.

I should take another look at EM

BR