Tag browser: custom icons per category value?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by correoparaappzz

I don't see any of those options

They are in today's preview release.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

My suggestion was to hide category item icons for all categories, not hide them a per category basis, but your trick gets me most of the way there, maybe I can 'hide' the partition icons with a transparent icon.

Transparent icon sort of works, but it still consumes space. as well as being vaguely visible. But for me it's not worth doing for every category across half a dozen libraries, so I'll leave it be.

BR

[ownedbycats]

Speaking of that, something I wonder: For the individual rules, they are stored in as icon_#column@@Category.png. What if there are two libraries with that column? Can they conflict?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Speaking of that, something I wonder: For the individual rules, they are stored in as icon_#column@@Category.png. What if there are two libraries with that column? Can they conflict?

Yes. If two libraries have columns with the same lookup name with identical values but with different meanings then the basic rule system will fail. You must use a template and the library uuid function to choose different icons depending on the library. My advice would be to use different lookup names to separate the name space.

[ownedbycats]

I may come across a bug. I was processing Cleanup books. I cleared them out and refreshed the search which normallly empties the tag browser:

[ownedbycats]

If it helps to replicate,

program:

	if 
		str_in_list($tags, ',', '[Cleanup]', 1, '')
	then 
		list_difference($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',') 
	else
		list_union($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',')
	fi

to remove Cleanup, followed by

from calibre_plugins.action_chains.actions.base import ChainAction

class RefreshAction(ChainAction):

    name = 'Refresh GUI'

    def run(self, gui, settings, chain):
        gui.current_db.data.refresh()
        gui.library_view.model().resort()

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I may come across a bug. I was processing Cleanup books. I cleared them out and refreshed the search which normallly empties the tag browser:

Attachment 213132

Is the hide empty categories option set? The icon stuff didn't change how the category tree is built.

And as far as I know, a search doesn't affect the tag browser. If they did then clicking on a TB node to filter the book list would change the tree and it doesn't.

Virtual libraries do change the tree.

I'll be surprised if you see different behavior between the last release and the preview.

[ownedbycats]

I have hide empty categories disabled. When I switch to another VL and back:

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

If it helps to replicate,

program:

	if 
		str_in_list($tags, ',', '[Cleanup]', 1, '')
	then 
		list_difference($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',') 
	else
		list_union($tags,'[Cleanup]' , ',')
	fi

to remove Cleanup, followed by

from calibre_plugins.action_chains.actions.base import ChainAction

class RefreshAction(ChainAction):

    name = 'Refresh GUI'

    def run(self, gui, settings, chain):
        gui.current_db.data.refresh()
        gui.library_view.model().resort()

The Refresh GUI action doesn't tell the tag browser to refresh the tree. To do that you must (I think) do

gui.tags_view.recount()

[ownedbycats]

Thats weird because it always worked before.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I have hide empty categories disabled. When I switch to another VL and back:

That means you have Hide Empty Categories checked. With it unchecked you see all the categories, like this:


With it checked you see this:

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Thats weird because it always worked before.

It shouldn't have.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by chaley

The Refresh GUI action doesn't tell the tag browser to refresh the tree. To do that you must do

gui.tags_view.recount()

This uses a bigger hammer to do the tag browser reset and might work better in your situation. In particular, it works with external changes to the list of categories to show or hide. If you don't do that then the recount() will work and will be faster.

gui.tags_view.model().reset_tag_browser()

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Thats weird because it always worked before.

Perhaps it worked because of some interaction with Job Spy? That is a change from "before" to "now".

[ownedbycats]

Its possible that might be the case. Im not sure.