On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:50 PM, ravi wrote:
> first: a thank you to Chris and Co for an excellent app that is a
> handsome open source substitute to Delicious Library et al.
Substitute? We were here first! :-)
> Now my question: I am trying to create a display plug-in and though I
> have enough info to keep going, I have a couple of things that I
> could use some info on: Neither of the URLs I have seen for the plug-
> ins page (http://www.aetherial.net/books-plugins/ mentioned in the
> plug-in HOWTO in the wiki, and http://books-plugins.aetherial.net/
> mentioned by Chris in his announcement to this list regarding web
> export plug-in) work.
Oy. You caught me with my pants down. Those URLs are quite old and
likely no longer work. I've posted a zip file containing the Default
Display plugin at
http://books.aetherial.net/downloads/DefaultDisplay.plugin.zip
This contains the CSS styling and the list of default fields
specified by the plugin.
> The HOWTO mentions "three sample HTML files" (for the three kinds of
> main window displays: none, single, multiple). It would be great to
> get hold of these files to make it testing changes to the display CSS
> easier -- which I assume is the idea behind them. Can someone point
> me to them or the right URL for the plug-ins page?
Books dynamically generates these HTML files.
A single book page example:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file://localhost/Users/cjkarr/Documents/
Xcode/Release/Books.app/Contents/Resources/DefaultDisplay.plugin/
Contents/Resources/stylesheet.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="book-definition">
<div class="book-title">Guilliver's Travels</div>
<div class="book-authors">Jonathan Swift</div>
<div class="book-genre">Literature</div>
<div class="book-format">Hardcover</div>
<div class="book-publisher">Easton Press</div>
<div class="book-listName">Unread Books</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Multiple books selected:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file://localhost/Users/cjkarr/Documents/
Xcode/Release/Books.app/Contents/Resources/DefaultDisplay.plugin/
Contents/Resources/stylesheet.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="multiple-message">
<div class="multiple-title">Multiple Selection</div>
<div class="book-list">
<p class="booklist-item"><div class="booklist-title">Knights of the
Dinner Table: Origins '03 Special</div><div class="booklist-
authors"></div></p>
<p class="booklist-item"><div class="booklist-title">Voodoo Child
Rough Cut</div><div class="booklist-authors"></div></p>
<p class="booklist-item"><div class="booklist-title">Raiders of the
Lost Ark #3</div><div class="booklist-authors">Walter Simonson</div></p>
<p class="booklist-item"><div class="booklist-title">Super-Villain
Classics #1</div><div class="booklist-authors">Mark Gruenwald; Stan
Lee</div></p>
<p class="booklist-item"><div class="booklist-title">The A-Team #1</
div><div class="booklist-authors">Jim Salicrup</div></p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
No books selected:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file://localhost/Users/cjkarr/Documents/
Xcode/Release/Books.app/Contents/Resources/DefaultDisplay.plugin/
Contents/Resources/stylesheet.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="empty">
<div class="empty-message">Please select a book from above.</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
--
In each of these cases, Books fills in the stylesheet URLs and the
contents of the individual pages. For a single book, it generates a
list of fields. For multiple books, it generates a list of selected
books with author and title.
I need to document this better, but let me know if you need more
information to get going.
-Chris
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