Well, we have a "quit" signal already. Maybe you can patch the "start" signal in and add a small plugin that allows you to hook up scripts to those signals ?
-- Jaap On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Udo Weik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jaap, > > I always forget to mention that I'm using Windows 7 Professional, 64 Bit > SP1, sorry! > > So to make it concrete, if I understand correctly: >> 1/ at startup: set environment parameters for locale settings >> 2/ at shutdown: trigger backup copy commands >> >> For 1/ I would suggest either setting them permanently in your >> environment (are you on linux, >> windows, ... ?) so you don't have to do it per application. If for some >> reason you need to do >> it on run time, you should do it with a bash or bat file and set the >> environment before start- >> ing zim. Reason is that once locale is initialized it is hard to change >> it on runtime. >> > > I must change localization settings in Python itself - for the templates > like the language for > calendar date (e. g. names of the days/months) and the date/time format > itself (order of > day/month/year, delimiter and so on). > > For 2/ I would suggest you define a "custom tool", that way you can have >> a back up button in the >> toolbar and click it before closing down. If you really want it on >> shutdown, you would write a >> small plugin that connects to the exit signal of the application. See >> e.g. the versioncontrol >> plugins for an example, they do the same. >> > > Yep, that would work - same idea. But an automatism would be great. As I > stated first: > Startup- and shutdown-code! > > > Many thanks and greetings > Udo > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Udo Weik <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello Jaap, >> >> Sorry, but I don't understand the question. Maybe you can be more >> specific what you want to do ? >> >> >> mmh, what else can I write? >> I want to add some custom code during >> - the start of ZIM, e. g. localization settings for the templates >> (language for date, date/time format) >> - before ZIM is quit, e. g. for a backup of the notebooks (copy from >> server to the local PC) >> >> >> Many thanks and greetings >> Udo >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Udo Weik <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> where/how can I use startup- and shutdown-code. After Zim is >> started, I want >> to change some localization settings (as startup-code) and >> before exiting Zim >> I want to save my notebooks (shutdown-code). >> >> >> Many thanks and greetings >> Udo >> >
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