Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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clytle374
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Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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I used to be able to call a named constraint from a different sketch and the box would give autocomplete options. I thought I was doing it wrong again(I have a history of not getting this to work), but it no longer works. Is this a current bug, or is it gone for good? Unfortunately, I will have to take notes when creating sketches if it's gone.

It still offers the sketches when I press S and then offers constraints when I follow with C, but after that no more suggestions are offered.

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OS: Gentoo/Linux (KDE//usr/share/xsessions/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.18591 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: c6cd65916caf466ba174aa09044c96a20790a72f
Python version: 3.6.9
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)

Here is the file, just trying to pull dimensions for Sketch to Sketch001
drillpress.FCStd
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Re: Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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This nice function was lost, when realthunder added other things to the expression engine. We hopefully will get it back (soon).
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Re: Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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Thank you. I thought I'd gone crazy for a bit.
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Re: Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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chrisb wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:45 pm This nice function was lost, when realthunder added other things to the expression engine. We hopefully will get it back (soon).
Is there a thread or ticket tracking this? If so, lets link to it ?
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I'm afraid not, I will search in the BigMerge topic.
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Re: Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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chrisb wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:45 pm This nice function was lost, when realthunder added other things to the expression engine. We hopefully will get it back (soon).
Is there any chance that this comes back. Current Version of .19

OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.19424 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 899854ac5d643e991a1006ed75aeff93baf3d224
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

still does not do the autocomplete. If one has dozens of named constraints or needs to acess existing properties like padxyz.length , finding them out and typing is tedious and error prone.
For me, this is a not usable for daily use factor and lets me stick to .18 formy work and videos.


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Re: Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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Sorry, I'm not sure if your question is if it's back now, or coming back in the future.

At this moment, it's not back in the current git.

It would be great to have it back. I currently keep a notepad open with a list of constraint names and what sketch they are in

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I personally could probably live with it for80% of my designs.. but if you want to tell a newbie to remember all that names..he will run away
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Re: Named constraints autocomplete suggestions gone

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Not having the autocomplete named variables function in 0.19 has made the software unusable for me. Incredibly annoying to have to note down variable names and type them back out again - especially when you have variables called 'WingClipXposHeight3' etc in complex models. Please bring it back. For now I'll revert back to 0.18 I think. Cheers.
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