[GUI Plugin] Action Chains

[foosion]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Probably not as expected. When I run "sync now" from an action chain it just silently fails half the time and I have to run it manually.

Does this help

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...postcount=1363

[ownedbycats]

The 'sync now' issue is only an issue when I run the send-to-device or remove-from-device chains while the device is already connected (otherwise it runs on next sync) so I'm not inclined to go mucking around with my workflow.

[Comfy.n]

Hi folks, I've been getting some glitch upon double-clicking files on list view. Can't remember when it started to happen, unfortunately. Before going into the description, let me state clearly what conditions don't trigger the error message:

a) double-clicking in Cover grid view is unaffected.

b) it doesn't happen when the event "Book List Double Clicked" is unchecked.

Now I'll try to explain. I have a chain with the following actions, kindly provided by ownedbycats, that runs on event "Book List Double Clicked":

- open book
- set #lastread
- Increment #timesread
- add date to #readdate

On list view, when I double-click the title of a book that contains a PDF format (which is my default "preferred input format" in Behaviour preferences, for double-clicking priority purposes), it runs the chain fine, sets all fields correctly. However, when I task-switch back to Calibre from my default system PDF program, the title cell shows as if waiting for an input, I mean, it's been inadvertently selected for editing, as if I had pressed F2.

What happens next is that, even without making any changes to the title field, when I click anywhere outside the title cell, I get the message in the attached log - "PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"

Also, that will occur either when I have the tweak doubleclick_on_library_view set to 'open_viewer' or to 'do_nothing'. Since I started using this chain, I use the latter (do_nothing).

I wonder if some tweak to the "Book List Double Clicked" event or to the chain itself could prevent that?

[ownedbycats]

Won't help with the unintentional selection, but the esc key should back out of accidental edits without the error.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Won't help with the unintentional selection, but the esc key should back out of accidental edits without the error.

yes, I've too found esc is a quick workaround for that.. but only after the error message, which is what I'm wondering if can be prevented

edit: well, what I actually wanted to mean is that pressing Esc prevents the message, but there's something else related to focus I can't precisely describe

[capink]

I am not able to replicate. If by any chance you have the following plugin tweak set:

action_chains_single_click_edit = True

Try removing it and restart calibre, and see whether it makes a difference. This was useful to solve a problem that seem to have been resolved in recent calibre versions.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by capink

I am not able to replicate. If by any chance you have the following plugin tweak set:

action_chains_single_click_edit = True

Try removing it and restart calibre, and see whether it makes a difference. This was useful to solve a problem that seem to have been resolved in recent calibre versions.

yes, that was it!

once I removed that plugin tweak, issue is resolved!

I can't remember why I've needed to set it, by the way, but hopefully this removal won't affect other chains.