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0000946FreeCADBugpublic2013-02-25 21:38
Reportershoogen Assigned Toyorik  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Product Version0.12 
Fixed in Version0.14 
Summary0000946: Objects imported by Drag-n-Drop end up in the wrong document
DescriptionUsing functions to create Draft objects uses the active Document. Though this might not be set to apropriate.
Additional InformationThis happend at least for importCSG if the first element is a Draft.makeCircle
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wmayer

2013-01-08 09:40

administrator   ~0002818

Can you be a bit more specific and describe in some steps how to produce this behaviour?

At least it doesn't seem to be a general problem but only in some special modules. Here my workflow:
* create two documents and in the tabbar select Restore to show the two windows in normal mode.
* drag and drop a STEP file to the mdi window which has NOT the focus

You can see it loads the file into the correct document, i.e. not the active one.

yorik

2013-01-08 10:58

administrator   ~0002823

Indeed the draft module creates objects always in the active document, but i can't really think of a case where it should be otherwise... as Werner says, we'd need a specific case.

shoogen

2013-01-08 11:44

developer   ~0002825

Last edited: 2013-01-08 11:59

i created two empty documents. I downloaded http://www.thingiverse.com/download:115211 to a local directory.
(On windows) i drop the scad file onto the first/inactive document in the combo (tree) view ('unnamed').
The first Draft.Circe is created in 'unnamed' the all further elements are created in 'unnamed'
i got multiple errors:
Gui::DocumentItem::slotChangedObject(): Cannot reparent unknown object.

@Werner: I dn't think that having the focus in the GUI has anything to do with being the *App*.ActiveDocument
@Yorik: This might has not been tested before because it not a problem if there is only one open document.
A simple fix would be to call setActive before calling the Draft module. But i think this could also affect all importers in Draft and Arch as well. And therefore would have to be done in all importers that use functions that rely on App.ActiveDocument

example:
 def insert(filename,docname):
     "called when freecad imports a file"
     global doc
     #global pathName
     groupname = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(filename))[0]
     try:
         doc=FreeCAD.getDocument(docname)
+ FreeCAD.setActiveDocument(docname)
     except:
         doc=FreeCAD.newDocument(docname)
+ #FreeCAD.setActiveDocument(doc.Name) #alternative implementation

ceterum censeo, there should be a method for this
(doc.setActive())
like there should be obj.remove() for doc.removeObject(obj.Name)

yorik

2013-01-08 12:46

administrator   ~0002827

I must test a bit (i'm still without computer) but this looks like an easy solution indeed... other solution could be to allow to give a docname to all draft makeSomething functions, but it might be overkill...

shoogen

2013-01-08 17:08

developer   ~0002828

I doesn't work as expected.

wmayer

2013-01-08 18:35

administrator   ~0002830

> @Werner: I dn't think that having the focus in the GUI has anything to do with being the *App*.ActiveDocument
I was probably not clear enough but we both meant the same thing.

It is not supposed to call the setActiveDocument() method from with the insert() function. This can have impacts and according to your last post it seems it really does.

Would it make sense to copy the code from the Draft.make***() functions to the CSG importer and adjust it to your needs?

yorik

2013-01-08 19:44

administrator   ~0002831

In that case it is probably better to add an optional argument to the Draft make functions, that allow to pass the document. It's not much work, there are not so many. But the day you need other tools from other modules, this won't work...

shoogen

2013-01-08 20:40

developer   ~0002832

If I'm not supposed to setActiveDocument() from the insert() function then, i have to put up the question if it makes more sense to call it in in c++ space, before calling the python insert function.
I do not fully understand the concept of the ActiveDocument yet.
I see the usefullness at the python console. But i didn't get when it is updated.

this problem occurs only under rare circumstances. And the workarounds in OpenSCAD module would be simple. But i think that this is a design flaw

yorik

2013-02-25 21:38

administrator   ~0002942

Committed the above fix in 8e3e4b2
I probably couldn't test every situation, if this is still an issue, reopen!

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-01-07 11:28 shoogen New Issue
2013-01-08 09:40 wmayer Note Added: 0002818
2013-01-08 10:58 yorik Note Added: 0002823
2013-01-08 11:03 yorik Status new => assigned
2013-01-08 11:03 yorik Assigned To => yorik
2013-01-08 11:44 shoogen Note Added: 0002825
2013-01-08 11:51 shoogen Note Edited: 0002825
2013-01-08 11:51 shoogen Note Edited: 0002825
2013-01-08 11:54 shoogen Note Edited: 0002825
2013-01-08 11:56 shoogen Note Edited: 0002825
2013-01-08 11:59 shoogen Note Edited: 0002825
2013-01-08 12:46 yorik Note Added: 0002827
2013-01-08 17:08 shoogen Note Added: 0002828
2013-01-08 18:35 wmayer Note Added: 0002830
2013-01-08 19:44 yorik Note Added: 0002831
2013-01-08 20:40 shoogen Note Added: 0002832
2013-02-25 21:38 yorik Note Added: 0002942
2013-02-25 21:38 yorik Status assigned => closed
2013-02-25 21:38 yorik Resolution open => fixed
2013-02-25 21:38 yorik Fixed in Version => 0.14