inspired by: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=71573 "Announcing: FreeCAD News" This is not a feature request. Believing in a bright future for FreeCAD sometimes I think about what new challenges growth may bring. This (https://github.com/FreeCAD/FPA) shows me others ar...

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Start_up_and_Configuration#Running_FreeCAD_without_GUI_.28headless.29 says In console mode, no graphical user interface will be displayed, and you will be presented with a Python interpreter prompt: >>>. From that prompt, you have the same functionality as the Python inte...

chennes wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:24 pm FreeCAD News.

Excellent idea!

openBrain wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:56 pm

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Gui.getMainWindow().findChild(QtWidgets.QDockWidget, 'Combo View').raise_()

That worked. Thanks, it saves lot of clicking when testing...

The ReportView gets into the way when both are combined. It would be good to get ahead of both. Not sure to get this point well. Can you explain what 'combined' means exactly? I guess I am not using the correct terms. Its a combination of the Panel windows as in the image below. Here the ComboView ...

from PySide2 import QtWidgets FreeCADGui.getMainWindow().findChild(QtWidgets.QTabWidget,'combiTab').setCurrentIndex(1) The ReportView gets into the way when both are combined. It would be good to get ahead of both. I could not find the ID of the combined ComboView, "combiView" analog to &...

from PySide2 import QtWidgets FreeCADGui.getMainWindow().findChild(QtWidgets.QTabWidget,'combiTab').setCurrentIndex(1) Perfect. Thanks a lot. Works like a charm. I also learned that many samples using PySide requires quite a few changes to PySide2. Its quite a process because for each single error ...

From what I know comboview has no concept of "on top" as it have tabs so the tab tab had view and focus is made visible with another command. Interesting. For example when I add a Part::Box, then set the ComboView tab to the "model" tab and then double click in the tree icon, th...

I have task panel shown with standard code like this (except) def Activated(self): baseWidget = QTGui.QWidget() panel = TestPanel(baseWidget) Gui.Control.showDialg(panel) The dialog shows fine, but normally the "Task" Tab of the ComboView is not visible and its switchig back to the Model a...

From https://github.com/joelgraff/pivy_trackers : A "tracker" is simply geometry which "tracks with" the user as they interact with a tool to provide dynamic visual feedback. A good example may be generating a "rubber band box" as a user clicks and drags over an area t...