Idea: Swap Title/Author hotkey. - Page 2

DNSB · 05-20-2020, 01:38 PM

For me, one of the fun parts of using calibre and reading the forums is finding how many different ways people have found to do the same task.

theducks · 05-20-2020, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

For me, one of the fun parts of using calibre and reading the forums is finding how many different ways people have found to do the same task.

Or how many ways MADE Calibre able to do the same task

kunkel321 · 05-20-2020, 06:04 PM

I was going to put together a little AutoHotkey automation script that would quickly run through the series of actions for a swap, but it turns out that it's already so easy I didn't bother... Neither the Individual, nor bulk, MDE have hot keys by default. So I assigned Alt+E to the bulk one.
Now I
1. Manually select one or more books that need Author <-> Title swapped.
2. Hold down Alt and press e, then w.
3. Release Alt and press Enter.

Still it would be slick to have this done programmatically so that the MDE gui didn't have to open.

BetterRed · 05-20-2020, 06:59 PM

FWIW. On the rare occasion I need to swap them for one book, I do it in the book list with F2, cut, tab, copy, paste, backtab, paste, enter.

It maybe more key strokes, but for me it is less intrusive with no pop-up multi-panel dialogues to navigate and exit, or need to remember application specific keystrokes. And it's what I'd do in a spreadsheet.

I've never wanted to do it for more then one because I would have done it before adding with BRU or something.

BR

kirk8677 · 05-23-2020, 06:21 PM

You can use the Quality Check plug in and assign a keyboard short cut to swap title/author. I did this and it works well.

kunkel321 · 06-05-2020, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kirk8677

You can use the Quality Check plug in and assign a keyboard short cut to swap title/author. I did this and it works well.

Kirk, I don't see this option in QC. Are you thinking of the FirstName <-> LastName swap?

05-20-2020, 06:59 PM	#19
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,745 Karma: 30237526 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	FWIW. On the rare occasion I need to swap them for one book, I do it in the book list with F2, cut, tab, copy, paste, backtab, paste, enter. It maybe more key strokes, but for me it is less intrusive with no pop-up multi-panel dialogues to navigate and exit, or need to remember application specific keystrokes. And it's what I'd do in a spreadsheet. I've never wanted to do it for more then one because I would have done it before adding with BRU or something. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 05-20-2020 at 07:02 PM.

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05-20-2020, 01:38 PM	#16
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,389 Karma: 169098492 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	For me, one of the fun parts of using calibre and reading the forums is finding how many different ways people have found to do the same task.

05-20-2020, 06:04 PM	#18
kunkel321 Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Near Seattle Device: Amazon Fire 10	I was going to put together a little AutoHotkey automation script that would quickly run through the series of actions for a swap, but it turns out that it's already so easy I didn't bother... Neither the Individual, nor bulk, MDE have hot keys by default. So I assigned Alt+E to the bulk one. Now I 1. Manually select one or more books that need Author <-> Title swapped. 2. Hold down Alt and press e, then w. 3. Release Alt and press Enter. Still it would be slick to have this done programmatically so that the MDE gui didn't have to open.

05-23-2020, 06:21 PM	#20
kirk8677 Enthusiast Posts: 46 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kindle	You can use the Quality Check plug in and assign a keyboard short cut to swap title/author. I did this and it works well.

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