How to get the selected category in the code of the gui plugin?

esvorontsov · 10-02-2015, 04:10 AM

Good day

The user selects the tag with the left mouse button.
How to get the selected tag in the code of the gui plugin?

kovidgoyal · 10-03-2015, 12:52 AM

You get access to it as

self.gui.tags_view

Read the source of the TagsView class in calibre, in particular the search_string() fucntion which is what calibre itself uses to convert selected tags into a search query.

10-02-2015, 04:10 AM	#1
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10-03-2015, 12:52 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You get access to it as self.gui.tags_view Read the source of the TagsView class in calibre, in particular the search_string() fucntion which is what calibre itself uses to convert selected tags into a search query.