[ Solved ] Quickly switch background color

[flachyjoe]

Hi
Does exist a way to switch the 3D view background color without opening user preference panel?

I ask this because I use a white background for screenshot and the blue gradients one for modeling.

Thanks!

[microelly2]

you can write your macro
just look, what are the roght color value for your case

rGrp=FreeCAD.ParamGet('User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/View')
atr="HeadlightIntensity"
rGrp.SetInt(atr,100)
rGrp=FreeCAD.ParamGet('User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/View')
atr="BackgroundColor"
rGrp.SetUnsigned(atr,1437270015)

[chrisb]

I ask this because I use a white background for screenshot and the blue gradients one for modeling.

I recently worked on the wiki and would have appreciated such a whitening function.

[efyx]

I recently worked on the wiki and would have appreciated such a whitening function.

Good idea, but I wouldn't create new icons, maybe implement it into navi cube? Also I posted to add there option for draw styles (as whireframe, shaded etc..)

[flachyjoe]

Thank you !
Solved with :

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rGrp=FreeCAD.ParamGet('User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/View')
attr = 'Gradient'
curval = rGrp.GetBool(attr)
rGrp.SetBool(attr, not curval)
Gui.activeView().redraw()

I manually set the simple color as white in user pref.

[chrisb]

Could not get microelly2's code working. flachyjoe's works.

OS: Mac OS X
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.13976 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at fae0de5)
Hash: fae0de58581694157a97d567c151bdce75d387dc
Python version: 2.7.15
Qt version: 5.11.0
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

[bejant]

I use a white background for screenshot

Tools > Save Picture > Extended button > Background = White (and result here with Insert Watermark ticked to True):

20180719a.png (25.97 KiB) Viewed 3285 times

[chrisb]

The built-in save picture doesn't work on some Macs since mid 0.17 times. That's not really an issue for me, because the standard screenshot tool serves the purpose very well; I can select the rectangle to be shot making the screenshots smaller and usually more focused on the matter.

Message is:

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<unknown exception traceback><type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>: Cannot save null image.

[flachyjoe]

Tools > Save Picture > Extended button > Background = White (and result here with Insert Watermark ticked to True):

You're right but as the settings are not saved between Save Picture calls, it's not as quick as a macro button in toolbar.

[bejant]

the settings are not saved between Save Picture calls

Maybe they should be? I think I'd like to re-use my Extended settings, instead of having to change some each time.