Custom Coloring

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

coloring changes the color of the text in the columns. The blue heading you are seeing is probably how windows highlights the currently sorted column.

EDIT: What kind of column is #sectag?

It is a comma separated text column which I created for my secondary tags.

Nyn

[transmitthis]

Just seen the colouring options - thats real cool.

Only changed the titles to "red" if the readbook check list is true, lol well if its a red book its a read book - easy for me to see

Sure I'll do some more things later

Thanks Kovidgoyal for a fantastic program,will defiantly be donating to support you

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@nyn: there was a bug when using "has" with a tags like column. I've uploaded a fixed build, so if you re-download and re-install and then re-create your rule which should then work as expected.

More generally, the fixed build also fixes a bug with "is set" and "is not set" rules and enables the use of composite columns in the rules.

Apologies, there were too many combinations for me to test them all before the release.

Thank you now I am seeing what everyone is enjoying about this feature.

[phenomshel]

Wonderful, Kovid, thank you VERY much for the simplified interface.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Wonderful, Kovid, thank you VERY much for the simplified interface.

You're welcome It was a challenge coming up with something that was fairly powerful and still easy to use.

[GRiker]

I have a custom column #condition (Rating, shown with stars) that I'd like to include in an rule.

Adding a rule that colors the 'title' column based on the value of #condition does not seem to have any effect.

Ultimately what I'd like is a rule that colors the title column if #condition == Unrated. Should that be a value of '0'?

G

[chaley]

The standard rating column does not support unrated, but a custom rating column does.

Because you are testing a custom rating column, you have two choices. You can test for equal to zero using a wizard rule, or you can define a template (an advanced rule) that checks for ''. Something like

program: test(field('#myrating'), '', 'red')

[GRiker]

I'll try the template, but I'm fairly certain that testing for #condition equal to any numeric value (0-5) does not work.

G

[chaley]

Originally Posted by GRiker

I'll try the template, but I'm fairly certain that testing for #condition equal to any numeric value (0-5) does not work.

Does for me. Are you running from source? If so, have you updated? If not, did you download before 22:45 BST?

[GRiker]

The template works, thanks.

G

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by chaley

Does for me. Are you running from source? If so, have you updated? If not, did you download before 22:45 BST?

I will resync and try again.

G

[GRiker]

OK, I pulled current source and created this wizard rule:

Set the color of title to crimson if the following conditions are met:
If the #condition column eq value: 1

And I don't see the title color change for books whose #condition equals 1. The template does work properly.

Update: Testing for == '0' works properly, but testing for == '1' does not.

G

[chaley]

Originally Posted by GRiker

Update: Testing for == '0' works properly, but testing for == '1' does not.

Oh ^%*&^.

Fixing another problem (formatted numbers) caused the /2 to go away for ratings when using the wizard. For the moment, use 2, 4, 6, etc for 1, 2, 3

[GRiker]

One more minor matter:
If you disable a condition by blanking all of its boxes, upon clearing the first field (the column field) the following exception occurs:

calibre, version 0.8.4
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:u''

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/griker/Documents/calibredev/source/dev/src/calibre/gui2/preferences/coloring.py", line 162, in init_action_box
    m = self.fm[col]
  File "/Users/griker/Documents/calibredev/source/dev/src/calibre/library/field_metadata.py", line 379, in __getitem__
    return self._tb_cats[key]
KeyError: u''

G

[beckywc]

I have a composite column that shows 95=date read, Reading: (percent read), Not Read in this column. This composite column information comes from the comments column, where the fetch annotations information is displayed.

I'm trying to color code this column, so far I can get the Not Read to show a color, but can't seem to get the others to change color. I hope I'm making sense.

How can I do this? Thanks