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[Udo Weik <WeikEngOff@xxxxxxx>]

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 <WeikEngOff@xxxxxxx <mailto:WeikEngOff@xxxxxxx>> 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 <WeikEngOff@xxxxxxx <mailto:WeikEngOff@xxxxxxx> <mailto:WeikEngOff@xxxxxxx <mailto:WeikEngOff@xxxxxxx>>> 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