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6 years 8 months ago #156830 by phillc54
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Just a nitpick but if you try to run a config from anything other than ~/linuxcnc/configs then a preference file cannot be created.

I inadvertently came across this when I tried to run QtDragon from where it was downloaded.

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6 years 8 months ago #156833 by cmorley
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Thank you i'll look into it.

Chris

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6 years 8 months ago #156841 by cmorley
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So looking into this a bit - it is caused by the original integrator setting the preference file inside his config folder. Of course you don't have that folder on your system so it fails (qtvcp will make the file but not the folders)

Did it make qtvcp fail to load? i can't immediately see why - it should just not have saving capability - but i have not tested this recently.

The question then is how do we facilitate Jim's intent (preference file in the config folder) while still being moveable.

maybe a magic filepath word ie. CONFIGFOLDER/.qtdragon_preference
meaning it saves in whatever config folder it was run from...

Chris

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6 years 8 months ago #156844 by phillc54
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cmorley wrote: So looking into this a bit - it is caused by the original integrator setting the preference file inside his config folder. Of course you don't have that folder on your system so it fails (qtvcp will make the file but not the folders)

OK, that makes sense.

Did it make qtvcp fail to load? i can't immediately see why - it should just not have saving capability - but i have not tested this recently.

Yes, it doesn't load the gui and gives the messages in the terminal I posted earlier plus a popup error message

The question then is how do we facilitate Jim's intent (preference file in the config folder) while still being moveable.

maybe a magic filepath word ie. CONFIGFOLDER/.qtdragon_preference
meaning it saves in whatever config folder it was run from...

Yes, I think the prefs file should always be where the ini file is.

I guess 99.9% of people won't do what I did and they will put it in ~/linuxcnc/configs where it belongs...

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6 years 8 months ago #156845 by cmorley
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I have made a change to screenoptions that will replace CONFIGFOLDER with the launched config path to facilitate the behavior.

I tested somewhat the error of specifying a location that was not possible but didn't get an error dialog.
could you run it again and see if the dialog said anything different - pressing cancel on the dialog should print the error in the terminal.

Chris

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6 years 8 months ago #156846 by phillc54
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Code:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/qtvcp", line 492, in <module> APP = QTVCP() File "/usr/bin/qtvcp", line 349, in __init__ window.handler_instance.initialized__() File "/home/phill/imac/Downloads/qtdragon/qtdragon_handler.py", line 68, in initialized__ self.PROBE.get_prefs() File "/home/phill/imac/Downloads/qtdragon/probe.py", line 54, in get_prefs self.w.lineEdit_probe_tool.setText(str(self.w.PREFS_.getpref('Probe tool', 0, int, 'PROBE OPTIONS'))) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getpref'

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6 years 8 months ago #156849 by cmorley
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Ahh perfect it's specific to qtdragon thats an easy fix.

Thank you.

Chris

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6 years 8 months ago #156971 by persei8
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Is there something I should change in the source files?

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