Is it possible to delay the closing of collection?

Anki Add-ons
1

I’m the author of fsrs4anki-helper. Recently, I’m developing the auto-rescheduling feature, which could reschedule cards reviewed in another device.

I added the function to the hook of sync_did_finish. After the function finished, it will use tooltip to show the result of auto-rescheduling. Here I encounter a problem:

When user enable the auto sync, syncing will be triggered when user closes the collection. The message displayed in tooltip will disappear quickly. So the user doesn’t have enough time to see the message.

Is there any way to delay the closing of collection when the tooltip shows the message? I try to use time.sleep(), but it freezes the collection, and the tooltip are delayed, too.

2

Maybe QMessageBox could be used to block Anki from closing until the user presses OK.

def sync_did_finish_text():
    msgBox = QMessageBox()
    msgBox.setText("sync did finish")
    msgBox.exec()

from aqt import gui_hooks
gui_hooks.sync_did_finish.append(sync_did_finish_text)
3

It’s a little annoying to require the users to click the button every time they close the collection.

4

Qtimer can be used to automatically close the QMessageBox. (The button is hidden by “NoButton”)

from aqt import QMessageBox, QTimer
from aqt import gui_hooks

def sync_did_finish_text():
    msgBox = QMessageBox()
    msgBox.setStandardButtons(QMessageBox.StandardButton.NoButton)
    msgBox.setText("sync did finish")
    timer = QTimer()
    timer.singleShot(3000, msgBox.accept)
    msgBox.exec()

gui_hooks.sync_did_finish.append(sync_did_finish_text)
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5

…or make them wait longer for Anki to close? :slight_smile: Is the message you’re presenting to the user important enough that it should delay shutdown?