[GUI Plugin] Action Chains

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by tkshorty

Hi,



I have no experience with python, and I am looking for a module, that I can import as an event, that triggers every time you send an ebook to the device.

Secondly also one for when you remove a book from the device.



Target is, to automatically add / remove a tag (currentlyReading) from the books on the corresponding action.



I am currently using a workaround, where I made a chain for send/del, which I can manually select instaed of the normal buttons.



thanks in advance for any help.

Have you looked at the Reading List plugin? https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=134856

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[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Found an issue when using Spanish as UI language:

The View (open book) action gives "Menu entry: View (plugin_name: View) cannot be found"

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I've only recently started looking at how translation works in Calibre plugins, but I guess that would be a missing translation in es.po from:

#: /__w/calibre/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/actions/view.py:51
msgid "View"
msgstr "Mostrar"

Upon changing UI to Spanish, the View action will lose selection state:

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I have to check if I've got the same translations (guilty as sin of editing them if I don't like them ), but it doesn't happen to me ("Mostrar" sticks if I select it).

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I have to check if I've got the same translations (guilty as sin of editing them if I don't like them ), but it doesn't happen to me ("Mostrar" sticks if I select it).

well, then this only happens when switching UI language and using an existing chain, I guess...

I have tested switching UI language to Italian and English and the validation error doesn't happen

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

well, then this only happens when switching UI language and using an existing chain, I guess...

I have tested switching UI language to Italian and English and the validation error doesn't happen

It looks like something get messed in the translation.

[ownedbycats]

I occasionally have trouble with validation on some items that change the menu name, e.g. Sync List and Sync List (1). If it's detecting by name perhaps?

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

It looks like something get messed in the translation.

Apparently there were changes in the plugin code. I'm offering to update the translation. I'm actually working on it, but I wanted to give you some peace of mind.

I leave in this zip the po and mo files with the translation into Spanish

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by dunhill

Apparently there were changes in the plugin code. I'm offering to update the translation. I'm actually working on it, but I wanted to give you some peace of mind.

I leave in this zip the po and mo files with the translation into Spanish

Thank you very much for the files, I'll include them in my plugin. I guess capink will include them in a newer release.

[ownedbycats]

Is it possible to put a separator between two variants in a chains? Dont think so but want to check.

[Nicolas.Laurent]

Hi

Is there a way to duplicate a book with an Action chain module? My level of Python knowledge is clearly insufficient, and all my attempts have failed..

[bluefish2020]

Originally Posted by Nicolas.Laurent

Is there a way to duplicate a book with an Action chain module? My level of Python knowledge is clearly insufficient, and all my attempts have failed..

I looked at what the add_empty builtin does and this seems to work well:

import os

from calibre_plugins.action_chains.actions.base import ChainAction

class DuplicateBookAction(ChainAction):
    name = 'Duplicate Book'
    support_scopes = True

    # code adapted from calibre/gui2/actions/add.py:add_empty()
    def run(self, gui, settings, chain):
        db = gui.current_db
        selected_books = chain.scope().get_book_ids()
        
        ids, orig_fmts = [], []
        for book_id in selected_books:
            metadata = db.get_metadata(book_id, index_is_id=True, get_cover=True, cover_as_data=True)
            orig_fmts = tuple(db.new_api.format(book_id, fmt, as_path=True) for fmt in db.new_api.formats(book_id))
            new_book_id = db.import_book(metadata, orig_fmts)
            ids.append(new_book_id)
            
        self.refresh_gui(gui, len(selected_books))
        # entirely optional: select and mark the copies
        if ids:
            ids.reverse()
            gui.library_view.select_rows(ids)
            db.set_marked_ids({id: 'duplicate' for id in ids})
        # clean up temp files created by new_api.format()
        for path in orig_fmts:
            os.remove(path)                        

    def refresh_gui(self, gui, num):
        gui.library_view.model().books_added(num)
        gui.refresh_cover_browser()
        gui.tags_view.recount()

[Nicolas.Laurent]

Thanks a lot, works perfectly!

[ownedbycats]

Chain Variant: Suppose I have chain withb 4 variants. I want to have 2 run a specific action, 2 to not. What do I set _variant_argument?

[capink]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Is it possible to put a separator between two variants in a chains? Dont think so but want to check.

No.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Chain Variant: Suppose I have chain withb 4 variants. I want to have 2 run a specific action, 2 to not. What do I set _variant_argument?

_variant_argument for the two chains that should not run the action should be 1 and 2. For chains that should run the action should be 3 and 4.

The condition on that particualr action should be:

template = program: globals(_variant_argument)
datatype = number
comparison = ">"
condition value = 2

[ownedbycats]

Additionally, instead of two separate SFEs with _variant_argument as a conditional, can _variant_argument be used in a SFE (templated)?

EDIT: It does. I set to null for one variant, and current date for another.

[capink]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Additionally, instead of two separate SFEs with _variant_argument as a conditional, can _variant_argument be used in a SFE (templated)?

EDIT: It does. I set to null for one variant, and current date for another.

That is actually one of the main reasons I did the chain variations. I have some chains the perform operations and then rate a book. So I wanted to have a submenu for these chains, with variations that look like this:

Do something and rate: ★
Do something and rate: ★★
Do something and rate: ★★★
Do something and rate: ★★★★
Do something and rate: ★★★★★

The template for the chain variations is like this:

program:
    text = 'Do something and rate: ';
    for rating in range(2,11,2):
        text = text & '★';
        add_chain_variant(text, rating, 'submenu name')
    rof

Now, you can use single field edit to set the rating based on the _variant_argument:

program:
    globals(_variant_argument)