Default Path Preference for Post Processing

[bill]

I have noticed over time, as path has evolved, the default selected Post Processor has flip-flopped around between linuxcnc, grbl, and one other I cant remember.

Does anyone besides me think Post.py should be settable in the following menu selection.

FreeCAD:Preferences:Path:Job Preferences:General/Post Processing Selector

[dubstar-04]

I have noticed over time, as path has evolved, the default selected Post Processor has flip-flopped around between linuxcnc, grbl, and one other I cant remember.

Does anyone besides me think Post.py should be settable in the following menu selection.

FreeCAD:Preferences:Path:Job Preferences:General/Post Processing Selector

Makes sense to me!!

[sliptonic]

It is now. Click on the post processing tab.

[bill]

I see said the blind man!

Scrolled off the bottom, looks like (apparently) nothing is below; unless you have to notice the thin window slider. (boy, you fixed that fast

Wonder why all that dead-space is in between tabs/labels/sections?

Which leads to another suggestion! "Window-shade" menuing that I think is found in other parts of FreeCAD. (For consistency's sake).
Do you know if window-shade menu option is available in Qt.

Probably of interest for the UI/UX crowd.

Thanks brad!

[sliptonic]

I've been bit by this myself. It's an artifact of how QT maximizes the panel. It might make sense for us to reorder the panels so General is last and is the one open by default. Then it looks like the tabs are at the top.

I don't know about the window shading though. I'm pretty crappy when it comes to UI/UX.

[bill]

Hey Brad FYI,
Just noticed the other day that the window-shade effect is used in SKETCHER; if you were interested !

The UI/UX folks made a BIG effort on ICONS; it would be nice if they UNIFIED the FreeCAD WB-Desktops styles concering menuing, format, !

But for the complexity of PATH, definetely, shades would help.

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[sliptonic]

Cool. I like it. Such a change won't make it into 0.17, of course but let's look at it going forward.

[mlampert]

Cool. I like it. Such a change won't make it into 0.17, of course but let's look at it going forward.

You can play around with that (or something like it) if you change the variable TaskPanelLayout in PathOpGui.py:

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# TaskPanelLayout
#  0 ... existing toolbox layout
#  1 ... reverse order
#  2 ... multi panel layout
#  3 ... multi panel layout reverse
TaskPanelLayout = 0