Keyboard shortcut, View toolbar - Wireframe

[herrdeh]

Oh - thanks for reminding me to the "dailys". Now I've a 0.17 as well - great.

Anyway. The macro is running now - I set it to toggle between "Flat lines" and "wireframe", these are the views I'm using most.

But now - after once having used the macro, I no longer can use the ctrl-D ("view properties" or so) control - this one will no longer work. It needs a programme relaunch, then it does again.
So - this is not what at least I want. I'm mainly using wireframe for outer elements and leave the inner ones Flat lines, so I can clearly distinguish them, and if that possibility varnishes, I would rather not use that nice macro.

W

[triplus]

You have access to all global draw style modes on the View toolbar. Therefore you don't have to restart FreeCAD at any point to change the mode. Based on your description you therefore need to toggle between 3 global modes:

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# ==============================

# 0 = "As is"
# 1 = "Flat lines"
# 2 = "Shaded
# 3 = "Wireframe"
# 4 = "Points"

styleA = 0
styleB = 1
styleC = 3

# ==============================

from PySide import QtGui
import FreeCADGui as Gui

mw = Gui.getMainWindow()

for i in mw.findChildren(QtGui.QToolBar):
    if i.objectName() == "View":
        for b in i.findChildren(QtGui.QToolButton):
            if b.menu():
                actionA = b.menu().actions()[styleA]
                actionB = b.menu().actions()[styleB]
                actionC = b.menu().actions()[styleC]

                if actionA.isChecked():
                    actionB.trigger()
                elif actionB.isChecked():
                    actionC.trigger()
                else:
                    actionA.trigger()
            else:
                pass
    else:
        pass

P.S. But i do have a feeling you won't be happy with the macro until it supports changing object/global draw style modes.

[herrdeh]

True.

And maybe you'll not be happy til you found a solution for this challenge...? (-;

W l

[triplus]

True.

And maybe you'll not be happy til you found a solution for this challenge...? (-;

W l

Well i was planning to do something else today and this macro challenge probably already exceeded the initial goal. As i went after compatibility with FreeCAD 0.16 (or older) and up therefore solution has some corner case scenarios when it won't work and it is not as future proof as it could be. Investing effort and building on that doesn’t make much sense. But i guess here we are and therefore:

Just selection:

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# ==============================

a = "Flat Lines"
b = "Shaded"
c = "Wireframe"
d = "Points"

styleA = a
styleB = c

# ==============================

s = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelectionEx()

for i in s:
    if i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode == styleA:
        i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = styleB
    else:
        i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = styleA

Combination object/global:

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# triplus @ 2016
# Toggle object/global DisplayMode
# ==============================

# 0 = "As is"
# 1 = "Flat lines"
# 2 = "Shaded
# 3 = "Wireframe"
# 4 = "Points"

globalA = 0
globalB = 3

a = "Flat Lines"
b = "Shaded"
c = "Wireframe"
d = "Points"

objectA = a
objectB = c

# ==============================

from PySide import QtGui
import FreeCADGui as Gui

mw = Gui.getMainWindow()

s = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelectionEx()

default = None
actionA = None
actionB = None

for i in mw.findChildren(QtGui.QToolBar):
    if i.objectName() == "View":
        for b in i.findChildren(QtGui.QToolButton):
            if b.menu():
                default = b.menu().actions()[0]
                actionA = b.menu().actions()[globalA]
                actionB = b.menu().actions()[globalB]
            else:
                pass

if s:
    if default:
        default.trigger()
    else:
        pass

    for i in s:
        if i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode == objectA:
            i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = objectB
        else:
            i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = objectA
else:
    if actionA and actionB:
        if actionA.isChecked():
            actionB.trigger()
        else:
            actionA.trigger()
    else:
        pass

[herrdeh]

Great! - A big step forward. Most of the desired works.

One little thing remains, in 0.16 as well as 0.17.
Try to reproduce:

• deselect all
• trigger macro - e.g. everything to wireframe
• select one item
• trigger macro
  => several (not only the selected) items change their appearance.
• from now everything works as desired

The same vice versa.

Keep going... (-;
W

[triplus]

Nothing to fix here as when you deselected all objects you toggled global mode to Wireframe. If you want to toggle some or all objects to Wireframe mode and want to see that on the screen you need to select the objects first (macro will automatically adjust the global mode to As is).

[mario52]

Hi
work fine thanks

mario

[triplus]

To reduce potential confusion i will gather all possible solutions we discussed here:

Toggle global display mode:

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# triplus @ 2016
# Toggle global display mode
# ==============================

# 0 = "As is"
# 1 = "Flat lines"
# 2 = "Shaded
# 3 = "Wireframe"
# 4 = "Points"

styleA = 0
styleB = 3

# ==============================

from PySide import QtGui
import FreeCADGui as Gui

mw = Gui.getMainWindow()

for i in mw.findChildren(QtGui.QToolBar):
    if i.objectName() == "View":
        for b in i.findChildren(QtGui.QToolButton):
            if b.menu():
                actionA = b.menu().actions()[styleA]
                actionB = b.menu().actions()[styleB]

                if actionA.isChecked():
                    actionB.trigger()
                else:
                    actionA.trigger()
            else:
                pass
    else:
        pass

Toggle selected object(s) display mode (changes visible only in global As is (located on View toolbar) display mode):

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# triplus @ 2016
# Toggle selected object(s) display mode
# ==============================

a = "Flat Lines"
b = "Shaded"
c = "Wireframe"
d = "Points"

styleA = a
styleB = c

# ==============================

s = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelectionEx()

for i in s:
    if i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode == styleA:
        i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = styleB
    else:
        i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = styleA

Combination that toggle global display mode when nothing is selected and/or toggle selected objects display mode if objects are selected. When objects are selected global display mode is automatically set to As is:

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# triplus @ 2016
# Toggle object/global display mode
# ==============================

# 0 = "As is"
# 1 = "Flat lines"
# 2 = "Shaded
# 3 = "Wireframe"
# 4 = "Points"

globalA = 0
globalB = 3

a = "Flat Lines"
b = "Shaded"
c = "Wireframe"
d = "Points"

objectA = a
objectB = c

# ==============================

from PySide import QtGui
import FreeCADGui as Gui

mw = Gui.getMainWindow()

s = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelectionEx()

default = None
actionA = None
actionB = None

for i in mw.findChildren(QtGui.QToolBar):
    if i.objectName() == "View":
        for b in i.findChildren(QtGui.QToolButton):
            if b.menu():
                default = b.menu().actions()[0]
                actionA = b.menu().actions()[globalA]
                actionB = b.menu().actions()[globalB]
            else:
                pass

if s:
    if default:
        default.trigger()
    else:
        pass

    for i in s:
        if i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode == objectA:
            i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = objectB
        else:
            i.Object.ViewObject.DisplayMode = objectA
else:
    if actionA and actionB:
        if actionA.isChecked():
            actionB.trigger()
        else:
            actionA.trigger()
    else:
        pass

[mario52]

hi
work fine i use

Combination that toggle global display mode when nothing is selected and/or toggle selected objects display mode if objects are selected. When objects are selected global display mode is automatically set to As is:

thanks
mario

[triplus]

Good to hear that and you're welcome.