FreeCAD looks for a new default background color

[chennes]

maybe we can detect if the system is using a dark or light theme and adapt to that.

The Addon Manager detects dark-vs-light using the following heuristic:

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pl = FreeCADGui.getMainWindow().palette()
return pl.color(pl.Background).lightness() < 128

I do this to adapt the shades of red, yellow, and green used in messages to the user. You can try those functions yourself by importing addonmanager_utilities.

[adrianinsaval]

But that is based on the qpalette, I was thinking more along the lines of checking if the OS is in dark mode and adopt both, a dark stylesheet and background colour.

[Hologram]

@Hologram did you modify a pre-existing stylesheet? There is Blender stylesheet https://github.com/pgilfernandez/FreeCA ... stylesheet perhaps you'd be open to maintaining it ?

Honestly, I haven't downloaded FreeCAD yet, but I'll give it a thorough test for V1.0. Sorry, I'm not into coding. I may be able to share my UI when I get around to testing 1.0

[Zolko]

2.
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Personally I like nr 2 but I might be biased since that one is also used in another CAD program but other colors.

me too, and the radial gradient, from center to periphery, is really nice, it gives a sort-of holy effect. What colors do you use here ?

[MisterMaker]

@Zolko I'm planning to implement/test the extended background options. Just need to learn Qt first

[adrianinsaval]

@Zolko I'm planning to implement/test the extended background options. Just need to learn Qt first

The background I think is Coin3D stuff rather than Qt, but I guess you also need to know some Qt to make the preference page for this, but probably very little, you may be able to just copy/paste from other preferences.

[MisterMaker]

@Zolko I'm planning to implement/test the extended background options. Just need to learn Qt first

The background I think is Coin3D stuff rather than Qt, but I guess you also need to know some Qt to make the preference page for this, but probably very little, you may be able to just copy/paste from other preferences.

I need Qt for the wizard too also like to cleanup the settings menu.
Although I'd like too experiment with the background myself, I do think it's a very interesting addition too @realthunder branch.

[Kunda1]

@chennes have any Qt tips here? ^^

[chennes]

Not really, but if you get stuck on something feel free to ping me here or on Discord.

[MisterMaker]

Not really, but if you get stuck on something feel free to ping me here or on Discord.

Quick question then..
Do you only need a header.h and a main.cpp when you develop a new program?