Bug #1954: Set colors doesn't work on objects that have edit mode reimplemented

[Kunda1]

issue #1954: Set colors doesn't work on objects that have edit mode re-implemented
Please discuss below

Edit: Consequence of issue #477

[Kunda1]

@wmayer writes:
At the moment the whole "edit modes" framework is broken by design. When setting up an edit mode for a view provider then two methods are involved:
1. setupContextMenu where a QAction can be added to a QMenu
2. setEdit(int) where an int of the actual edit mode is passed

The difficulty is that inside setupContextMenu a unique integer should be set to the QAction which is still unique when a method invokes the same method of the parent class. And inside setEdit a view provider must know the edit mode numbers it must handle.

With the current implementation when a sub-class wants to handle the edit modes of the base class it must know its implementation.

When thinking about it I guess it would work if setupContextMenu returns an int which is the number of edit modes it handles. Then the sub-class would know from which value to start with.
setEdit should then also return an int and depending on its value a sub-class knows if the base class handled it already.

Example (in pseudo code):

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int BaseClass::setupContextMenu(menu)
  // add two modes
  int id = 0;
  QAction* act1 = menu->addAction(...);
  act1->setData(QVariant(id++));
  QAction* act2 = menu->addAction(...);
  act2->setData(QVariant(id++));
  return id; // id = 2

int SubClass::setupContextMenu(menu)
  int id = BaseClass::setupContextMenu
  QAction* act1 = menu->addAction(...);
  act1->setData(QVariant(id++));
  QAction* act2 = menu->addAction(...);
  act2->setData(QVariant(id++));
  QAction* act3 = menu->addAction(...);
  act3->setData(QVariant(id++));
  return id; // id = 5



int BaseClass::setEdit(ModNum)
 if ModNum < 2:
   // handle it
  return ModNum - 2; // the 2 is the number of modes this view provider handles

int SubClass::setEdit(ModNum)
  if ModNum < 0 // the base class handled it
     return ModNum;
  if ModNum < 3:
    // handle it
  return ModNum - 3;

The only important point is that a programmer has to take care to use the correct values in setEdit to be consistent with setupContextMenu. But he doesn't have to know about the implementation of the base class any more.

[silopolis]

Hi,

As a woodworker, I wish this could be solved as it would allow me to color code the faces of the wood panel parts, thus easily and visually tracking the face, back, left, right, top and bottom of each one of them.

Bests