A suggestion for a new FEM mesh GMsh icon

[jmaustpc]

Hi Sudhanshu

I am not able to click on the drop down and take a screenshot at the same time,

I have a tip regarding that!

All you do is set a time delay, usually 2 or 3 seconds is adequate. So you click "take a screen shot", you then have a couple of seconds to click on something and only then is the screenshot actually taken. If you select the option to include the mouse pointer, then this also allows you to point at something with the mouse pointer. I am using Linux, some Ubuntu and mostly KDE Kubuntu. But as far as I know most screen capture application can do these things.

Jim

[Sudhanshu]

Hi Sudhanshu

I am not able to click on the drop down and take a screenshot at the same time,

I have a tip regarding that!

All you do is set a time delay, usually 2 or 3 seconds is adequate. So you click "take a screen shot", you then have a couple of seconds to click on something and only then is the screenshot actually taken. If you select the option to include the mouse pointer, then this also allows you to point at something with the mouse pointer. I am using Linux, some Ubuntu and mostly KDE Kubuntu. But as far as I know most screen capture application can do these things.

Jim

Thanks for that nice tip!
Here are how the drop down implementations look for now:

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[johnwang]

Here are how the drop down implementations look for now:

Will the last pick stay there? Or every time you have to choose once? I only use gmsh, so don't want to choose every time.

The calculix solver should have a dedicate icon. 'Solver' is not a good one in this case. And the two of them should has a little different. Otherwise you can't tell in this arrange by just looking at it.

The netgen icon maybe change the color of letter N.

[Sudhanshu]

exactly, no netgen icon if not compiled against netgen.

But I need to check for netgen in the groupcommands package, so I need that variable in python.
How do I get that?

This seems like a difficult task.
The FCWithNetgen is added as a preprocessor definition in src/Mod/FemGui/CMakeLists and so it is available in the C++ code.
But since python is an interpreted language, it seems we can't have the same thing in python.
At least not the same flag in an easy way.
So are we better of implementing this in C++ only?

[Sudhanshu]

Here are how the drop down implementations look for now:

Will the last pick stay there? Or every time you have to choose once? I only use gmsh, so don't want to choose every time.

Yes, the last pick will stay.

The calculix solver should have a dedicate icon. 'Solver' is not a good one in this case. And the two of them should has a little different. Otherwise you can't tell in this arrange by just looking at it.

The netgen icon maybe change the color of letter N.

The icons will change later on, once we are done with the drop down implementation.

[johnwang]

This was a much better way of implementation.
So here we go: https://github.com/Sudhanshu-Dubey14/Fr ... 648e4ca108

I tried this.

When you restart FreeCAD, you have to choose the mesher again.

[Sudhanshu]

This seems like a difficult task.
The FCWithNetgen is added as a preprocessor definition in src/Mod/FemGui/CMakeLists and so it is available in the C++ code.
But since python is an interpreted language, it seems we can't have the same thing in python.
At least not the same flag in an easy way.
So are we better of implementing this in C++ only?

It took a decent amount of searching but I think I have found at least one way of checking whether FreeCAD was compiled with Netgen or not in Python.

The idea is to have a function in C++ (maybe in Fem/Gui/Command.cpp) that checks the FCWithNetgen flag and returns 1 or 0. Then in python we can use ctypes to call that function and know whether Netgen is there or not.

This approach has a few drawbacks:

1. It's very difficult to find and load the exact library from which our function would be accessible. Is it libFreeCADGui.so?
2. ctypes is very platform dependent but it is the only built-in module out of all the alternatives given in this post.

So how shall we proceed now?