Scripting questions

[gitfirl]

Is there a way to check if a book has pending updates? I'm thinking something like if book.PendingUpdate:. Is there something like this? Or maybe a built-in function I can call?

One more thing, is it possible to update just the one book in the current loop iteration? I found this ComicRack.MainWindow.UpdateComics(), but it seems to update everything in the library.

[maforget]

You can check if a book needs an update by checking ComicBook.ComicInfoIsDirty, this is what triggers the orange star saying an update is needed.

For individually adding books to the update queue, check how ComicRack.MainWindow.UpdateComics is done. It calls Program.QueueManager.AddBookToFileUpdate and passes the book object to it. Updating single books from the program, works the same way, it just does it on only the selected books.

ComicRackCE/ComicRack/Views/ComicBrowserControl.cs

Lines 2725 to 2731 in c6b6bad

	public void UpdateFiles()
	{
	GetBookList(ComicBookFilterType.IsNotFileless | ComicBookFilterType.Selected).ForEach(delegate (ComicBook cb)
	{
	Program.QueueManager.AddBookToFileUpdate(cb, alwaysWrite: true);
	});
	}

That method calls WriteInfoToFileWithCacheUpdate, which in turn calls the WriteInfoToFile from the ComicBook object.

So you could just call WriteInfoToFile directly or since the QueueManager is not exposed to plugins use reflection to get the singleton from Program and use the full code while using the built-in queue and respecting the program settings.

Something like this:

#@Name QueueManager Test
#@Hook Books
def QueueManager_Test(books):
    
    # Use the actual MainWindow instance to get the type
    main_window_type = ComicRack.MainWindow.GetType()

    # Get the assembly that contains MainWindow
    assembly = main_window_type.Assembly

    # Now get the Program type from that same assembly
    program_type = assembly.GetType("cYo.Projects.ComicRack.Viewer.Program")

    # Fetch QueueManager via reflection
    queue_manager = program_type.GetProperty("QueueManager").GetValue(None)
    
    for book in books:
        # Now call AddBookToFileUpdate on that book
        queue_manager.AddBookToFileUpdate(book, True)

[gitfirl]

Thank you for always writing such detailed replies!