[GUI Plugin] Modify ePub

[Rachel]

Thank you all for your help - using the Tweak has solved it. I have no idea why it started happening in the first place as I have never looked in that section before. Lots of interesting things there to explore. Thank you once again.

[BetterRed]

The Remove non dc: metadata elements seems to have stopped working.

Can anyone confirm?

Not sure when, but fairly recently, the plugin hasn't changed for 3+ years!

BR

[ilovejedd]

Still works on 3.31. Haven't updated to 3.32 yet.

[BetterRed]

!ilovejedd - I think I must have been having a problem for a while

I just found a book I processed a couple of months ago that had my custom columns in the OPF, it has no cover which proves it went through the Modify process - I strip both covers and non-dc elements with Modify.

I'm not sure it's all books - I might copy a bunch of previously processed books to a test library and run them though Modify

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

The Remove non dc: metadata elements seems to have stopped working.

Can anyone confirm?

Not sure when, but fairly recently, the plugin hasn't changed for 3+ years!

BR

False alarm - A gremlin must have checked the Update metadata embedded in the book when opening setting in the Book editor, sometimes I use the editor's file merge feature after Modify.

BR

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

the plugin hasn't changed for 3+ years!

This does remind me that I have a few unreleased tweaks on my development version that I ought to merge in and release. I’ve been using ’em for a while, so they oughta be stable...

(Nothing huge, just stuff like adjustments to the depretty results. Should only make a difference when viewing the book’s code.)

[stumped]

not sure if this is a bug, a feature??? or some side effect of other settings

if i display a list of books e.g. i list those where read=n, then i process one item by using modify epub... when I accept the modify epub changes I am not then returned to that book in the list. I am returned to top of list? or somewhere else in list? but whatever- with a long list the book I just modified is often nowhere to be seen as it's now off screen

NB this is an old-ish 3rd party plugin, not Kovid's polish epub one. dunno exactly how long it's been like this and whether it started to happen after some specific calibre release. I am currently on latest 3.39.1
only a minor annoyance but if there's an easy fix ...
i use this plug in, and not the polish one, because I am used to it, it does all that I want, except for the return to list bit, and so I have no great desire to change

[theducks]

I think this depends on what column sort (or VL rule) is active at the time:
I use this PI all the time and never noticed a focus issue

[stumped]

the filter it does not play nice with is
#read:"=n"
y could you try that please if you have a similar column
( read is something I set up, with instructions I'd now struggle to find
it is multi valued single character : y, n, i ( for in progress) q ( for quit / abandoned... )

[ilovejedd]

Weird, I tried it on 3.32 just now.

First time, it scrolled to the top of the list but the book remained selected so pressing an arrow key got the book back in focus on the book list.

Tried it multiple times thereafter and I've been unable to recreate the issue.

[stumped]

Thanks. I did not think to try and arrow key. May do that later.
It's one of those "annoying but not quite annoying enough to spend time working on it" bugs
Usually I work only with my short in progress filter so it's less noticable.
So it seems it , sometimes, causes a refresh of the filtered list, when exited by accepting the modify

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Weird, I tried it on 3.32 just now.

First time, it scrolled to the top of the list but the book remained selected so pressing an arrow key got the book back in focus on the book list.

Tried it multiple times thereafter and I've been unable to recreate the issue.

When calibre starts nothing is highlighted as being selected, if you run Modify when calibre is in that state you'll get an "You must select one or more books to perform this action." error. So you must have selected a book run Modify. Caveat: i run Modify via a keyboard shortcut, might work different for mouse clickers.

Originally Posted by stumped

Thanks. I did not think to try and arrow key. May do that later.
It's one of those "annoying but not quite annoying enough to spend time working on it" bugs
Usually I work only with my short in progress filter so it's less noticable.
So it seems it , sometimes, causes a refresh of the filtered list, when exited by accepting the modify

It's not happening here, after a Modify I am back to the selected book and selected column. I tried with the "Prompt to save ePubs" checked and unchecked in Modify configure, it's normally unchecked. And I tried with and without a search term, within a selective VL and in the All books VL.

I use Modify every day. Being keyboard centric I am particularly sensitive towards unexpected changes or loss of focus in the book list.

I'm not convinced the problem is with the Modify plugin, so I won't move the thread to the Modify PI thread.

BR

[stumped]

All I can offer for clues is this.
Normally I only. Modify books just added to my category I, in progress.
A short list
. Works fine
I.e.i choose something new to read. Mark it as I, in progress, then use modify as a final prep of a reading version prior to the actual read. I scrub any unwanted front and back of book stuff , to go straight to the story, and let the plug in fix the toc to match

Bug appears if I scroll through a longer list e.g. my not read, read =n, list then pick out a book that I probably never tidied, not on screen 1 of that list. It is only after modifying something way down that list that I lose focus.afterwards
I will experiment more tomorrow, and post any replicable sequence of events

I suspect the plug in is partly to blame. It exits and tells calibre to go back to showing the list from which it was activated, but does that in a manner that causes calibre to show screen 1 of a multi screen filter list. So the book it just modified is off screen. I have about 400 books on that unread iist, so many many screens. I need to test more carefully and confirm that , though

[BetterRed]

What is a 'screen' by your definition?

Can you post some before and after screen shots - no matter what I try, after running Modify I'm back to where I was.

Modify runs as a job, which means whilst its running the book list has focus. Are you sure you're not doing something whilst it runs, or the completion notify is waiting for a reply?

When the notify message appears what happens if you tap down arrow?

BR

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

When calibre starts nothing is highlighted as being selected, if you run Modify when calibre is in that state you'll get an "You must select one or more books to perform this action." error. So you must have selected a book run Modify. Caveat: i run Modify via a keyboard shortcut, might work different for mouse clickers.

The book list (VL >2000 books) immediately went to the top after the Modify ePub job was done (10 books, ~2MB/600K words each). The books remained selected though, so pressing an arrow key put the selected books back in focus.

I'm now thinking it might be a memory issue. I was able to recreate it in RAM-starved conditions (wasn't that hard considering I'm on 32-bit Windows, just a few Firefox windows and voila).