Calibre development

macellan · 05-21-2010, 04:31 AM

Hello,

We are currently working on a project that includes a simple GUI for e-book management. Calibre's GUI is too far complicated for our needs. So we decided to simplify it and add some new functionalities.

First of all we need to add some new metadata types. Instead of Publish Date, our e-books should have another metadata as Publish Date on Newspaper. We also want to filter our e-books by using these new metadata types.

We checked out calibres database structure and figured out to create a new upgrade version function. That way, calibre creates a new table in metadata.db at first init.

The problem is, we could'nt manage to display new types on GUI yet. Any suggestions or any "how to" kind of documents you know, that could help us on this point would be appreciated.

Thanks.

chaley · 05-21-2010, 07:35 AM

To my knowledge, there are no documents that will help you hack the calibre db and create a new GUI for it.

That said, you should start from the beta source (0.6.9x series), not the standard source (0.6.5x series). The beta supports adding new columns to the db, displaying these columns, and searching/filtering on these columns. That code should provide you with sufficient patterns to accomplish what you are trying to do.

macellan · 05-21-2010, 08:22 AM

Thank you chaley

I'll try that.

jackie_w · 05-21-2010, 06:36 PM

Sorry posted in wrong thread

05-21-2010, 04:31 AM	#1
macellan Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: none	Calibre development Hello, We are currently working on a project that includes a simple GUI for e-book management. Calibre's GUI is too far complicated for our needs. So we decided to simplify it and add some new functionalities. First of all we need to add some new metadata types. Instead of Publish Date, our e-books should have another metadata as Publish Date on Newspaper. We also want to filter our e-books by using these new metadata types. We checked out calibres database structure and figured out to create a new upgrade version function. That way, calibre creates a new table in metadata.db at first init. The problem is, we could'nt manage to display new types on GUI yet. Any suggestions or any "how to" kind of documents you know, that could help us on this point would be appreciated. Thanks.

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05-21-2010, 07:35 AM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,740 Karma: 6997045 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	To my knowledge, there are no documents that will help you hack the calibre db and create a new GUI for it. That said, you should start from the beta source (0.6.9x series), not the standard source (0.6.5x series). The beta supports adding new columns to the db, displaying these columns, and searching/filtering on these columns. That code should provide you with sufficient patterns to accomplish what you are trying to do.

05-21-2010, 08:22 AM	#3
macellan Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: none	Thank you chaley I'll try that.

05-21-2010, 06:36 PM	#4
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,212 Karma: 16534894 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: Kobo: KA1, ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E. PocketBook: TouchHD3	Sorry posted in wrong thread

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