Bug 479961

Hello.

First and foremost, thank you very much for creating and developing Tellico for all these years! It's a very useful piece of software.

What I miss in it is some way to easily cooperate with external scripts provided by the user. For example, I would like to have an option to quickly print a physical catalog card for an entry.

I think a simple and powerful solution would be to follow the Unix philosophy and add the ability to pipe the selected entry (or entries) to an external command as simple text encoded in a markup language (e.g., XML for that's what Tellico uses for storing the data, though I personally definitely dislike it). This way, users would be able to use whatever languages and tools they like to create the external handler.

The way I see it implemented is to have a list of external handlers in the configuration menu, just like the source list (albeit, the new one would probably be empty by default) and put the elements of this list into a submenu in the context menu shown when the RMB or the Menu key is pressed with some entry or entries selected.

Kind regards.