[GUI Plugin] Action Chains

[capink]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Is a way to apply an additonal restriction?

Without writing a specific module for this, the quick and dirty way is to use a "Run Python Code" action with this code:

• To set a named restriction
  

  def run(gui, settings, chain):
      gui.apply_named_search_restriction('restriction_name')

• To set a restriction from search
  

  def run(gui, settings, chain):
      gui.apply_text_search_restriction('search_string')

[Far_Pen_6884]

Is it possible to have an action chain trigger automatically when I perform a certain action, like rating a book?

I've seen users sharing action chains as zip files. How can I import and export those JSON files into an action chain?

[ownedbycats]

Event Manager in menu.

Right-click chain in Manage Chains.

[un_pogaz]

I share a user module: Re-calc Book Size
It's a little module to re-calc the size column of a book.
Useful if you've had edited the book files by a third-party program.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...65#post4529065

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

I share a user module: Re-calc Book Size
It's a little module to re-calc the size column of a book.
Useful if you've had edited the book files by a third-party program.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...65#post4529065

Useful!

[chaley]

Is there an existing module or action that will open an input dialog to get a line of text? It is easy enough to do as a python action, getting the text and dropping it into a global, but why reinvent the wheel?

Another question: is there currently a way to use the current search as a temporary VL? This is done manually by clicking on VL and then "*current search". Again, this is straightforward to do with a python template, but ...

[capink]

Originally Posted by chaley

Is there an existing module or action that will open an input dialog to get a line of text? It is easy enough to do as a python action, getting the text and dropping it into a global, but why reinvent the wheel?.

Not exactly an input dialog, but the Chain Variables action has an interactive checkbox that will allow you to enter a text to be saved to global variable. If not suitable for you needs, we can always add a new action. Not sure whether to add to the resources thread or directly in the builtin actions.

Originally Posted by chaley

Another question: is there currently a way to use the current search as a temporary VL? This is done manually by clicking on VL and then "*current search". Again, this is straightforward to do with a python template, but ...

Not currently. I was planning on an action that does some of these things like VLs and restrictions, but haven't gotten around to it. I had an unpolished multi-sort action in the resources thread that I thought maybe I can add the VLs and restrictions to, instead of having a dedicated action for every single action. I usually put temporary actions in the resources thread until I get a clear idea of how the final version should look like.

Currently, the quick and dirty way is a "Run Python Action"

• To use the current search as vl:
  

  def run(gui, settings, chain):
      gui.apply_virtual_library('*')

• If you want to use a named vl:
  

  def run(gui, settings, chain):
      gui.apply_virtual_library('vl_name')

• To set a named restriction
  

  def run(gui, settings, chain):
      gui.apply_named_search_restriction('restriction_name')

• To set a restriction from search
  

  def run(gui, settings, chain):
      gui.apply_text_search_restriction('search_string')

A dedicated action would provide a config widget with combobox to choose from the available vls and restrictions.

[chaley]

@capink: thanks. I did what I needed using the interactive selection of chain variables. It works well. I would rather that a single click on the value cell opened the editor, but a double click works.

The chain is documented in this post.