Hi! noob question about names

[SilverWolf1793]

So... yea... as the title said, I'm new with calibre plugin api, I think I have an idea of mostly everything except one thing...

In the example code of the documentation the ui.py file has this line:

name = 'Interface Plugin Demo'

I don't seem to be able to modify it in any way without the UI unloading although my settings are still accesible.

I'm really confused because I have already changed the name in my __init__.py and modified everything with the string or name "Interface Plugin Demo" and it works, except when I touch that single line in ui.py

why does this happen?

[SilverWolf1793]

a slight update, Im now even more confused, this simple code doesn't work:

__init__.py

from calibre.customize import InterfaceActionBase

class AdvancedSeriesCreator(InterfaceActionBase):
    name                = 'Advanced Series Creator'
    description         = 'An advanced plugin'
    supported_platforms = ['windows', 'osx', 'linux']
    author              = 'SilverWolf'
    version             = (1, 0, 0)
    minimum_calibre_version = (0, 7, 53)

    actual_plugin       = 'calibre_plugins.advanced_series_creator.ui:InterfacePlugin'
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ui.py

from calibre.gui2.actions import InterfaceAction

class InterfacePlugin(InterfaceAction):

    #name = 'Interface Plugin Demo'
    name = 'Interface Plugin Demo aasd'
    action_spec = ("Create New Series", None, 'Create a new series', 'Ctrl+Shift+F1')

    def genesis(self):
        icon = get_icons('images/icon.png')
        self.qaction.setIcon(icon)

[SilverWolf1793]

Okey.... Im hitting my self in the forehead, if anyone ever gets this issue I'll tell you how to fix it, and also this REALLY SHOULD be on the official documentation but its never mentioned.

Plugins don't add the menus by themselves, you have to activate them ON the calibre settings on preferences>interface.

If you do not do that, the plugin itself has been loaded and it may be fully functional but its prevented from showing itself on the main gui rendering its own interface "hidden" as there its no way to access to the plugin functions, the reason that the example was working to me was that I imported it as a zip from the official site, of course I just clicked next... next... next... without really realizing that I was also activating manually the menus....

so much for three days of frustration... hahaha