Beta testers for calibre 2.0 needed

[kovidgoyal]

As I thought it is caused by the combination of hyphenation+font. Turn off hyphenation in the viewer preferences (it defaults to off) and you will be fine. Of change the font in the book from PT Serif to just serif.

[beedaddy]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

As I thought it is caused by the combination of hyphenation+font. Turn off hyphenation in the viewer preferences (it defaults to off) and you will be fine. Of change the font in the book from PT Serif to just serif.

Thanks! So, it was never problem with Qt4-based calibre because due to Qt-limitations, the viewer never used the embedded font?

[kovidgoyal]

Who knows, Qt WebKit's font handling has always been fairly severely broken. In any case, here is the bug report against Qt 5: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-40912

[NSGod]

I'm seeing a bug here in the Edit Book application when dismissing panels/windows that are being shown in an application-modal fashion. (I'm on OS X 10.9.4, running calibre 1.206.1).

For example, I'll choose Tools > Remove unused CSS rules, which brings up the "Remove unused CSS" dialog box with a Cancel and OK button, where I click OK. Then after doing its work, it opens up a window (no title) that shows the results of process, and this window is shown in an application-modal fashion (meaning, I can do nothing else in the application until this window is dismissed). There is a Close button and a See what changed button. If I click on the "See what changed" button, it brings up the "Differences between books" diff window. Clicking "Revert changes" in that window dismisses the window (closes it), but the rest of the application now still behaves as if it's showing a modal dialog: clicking anywhere on the main window results in an NSBeep, and the menu items are all grayed out. The only way to recover from this is to Press Command-Q or choose Quit from the application icon in the Dock, where you're prompted to save changes or discard.

[kovidgoyal]

That should fix it: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...566e918ff9599f

[NSGod]

Cool.

Another bug I noticed when I have a tab open in the editor (in the Edit Book app), and I try to save changes (by pressing the Command-S keyboard combination), but there are none to save (and if I go to the File menu, Save is grayed out), instead of ignoring it or beeping at me (to signify that it's not available), it, instead, inserts an 's' into the editor window.

I routinely hit Command-S frequently out of habit, and have ended up trying to save changes even when there weren't any to save, and this led to stray 's's showing up in the code, which caused parsing errors.

I'm guessing I would expect it to behave like the other grayed out menu commands, like Copy, Cut, etc., where if they're grayed out, and you hit the keyboard combination, they're simply ignored, rather than inserting the character into the window (for example, 'c' for Copy, 'x' for Paste, etc.)

[kovidgoyal]

That's an odd one. Does typing arbitrary letters with the Cmd key pressed translate into text? Say for example, Cmd+k

EDIT: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...1853396132b5bd

[kacir]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@kacir - there's a plug-in that does something like that ==>> [GUI Plugin] Clipboard Search

I did a few tests on the Qt5'd version the other day on Windows 7, under calibre 1.48 64-bit & calibre 1.205 portable, seems to work as advertised. The Qt5d version is released, so you can install via Prefs->Plug-ins->Get New.

BR

The Clipboard Search doesn't have the functionality I was looking for.
BUT!
I finally got pisse^H^H^H^H^Hmotivated enough to sit down and do something to solve my problem, because it looks like AutoKey is unlikely to resolve the problem with QT5 and I won't be able to make it work the way I want.
So ... I installed the plugin and had a look inside.

It took me 5 minutes to modify the functionality of the code that in original plugin just surrounds the text in quotes.

I have replaced code:
#######################
    def search_using_clipboard_text(self, is_exact_search=False):
        cb = QApplication.instance().clipboard()
        txt = unicode(cb.text()).strip()
        if txt:
            if is_exact_search:
                # Surround search text with quotes if it does not have any already
                if not txt.startswith('"'):
                    txt = '"' + txt
                if not txt.endswith('"'):
                    txt += '"'
            self.gui.search.set_search_string(txt, store_in_history=True)
#######################

With the following
#######################
import re ## - put at the beginning of the file after other import statements
#######################
    def search_using_clipboard_text(self, is_exact_search=False):
        cb = QApplication.instance().clipboard()
        txt = unicode(cb.text()).strip()
        if txt:
            if is_exact_search:
            self.gui.search.set_search_string(txt, store_in_history=True)
#######################

Thank you for the inspiration.

This is even better - I do not need the AutoKey third-party program AND I do not have to do a private fork of the Calibre (as I used to do in the past) to make this work.

Thank you Kovid for an absolutely wonderful easily-user-extensible framework
Thank you KiwiDude for those fantastic plugins