Save file sort parameters between sessions

cmorley wrote:

What version of Qt are you using (or what version of linux).
It works for me with mint 20 qt 5.12.8

I pulled the latest version of master to get your changes. So I should be running QTplasmac  v1.215.110 2021 Oct 27I was testing on a sim on my Chromebook. I'll try on real hardware when I get a month in the next day or so as the weekend is over!

Can you post the output from the terminal start and close of qtplasmac?
There might be a clue in there. Qsettings (the basis of this) was added in qt 5.9.x so should function.

 
Dump attached. I wonder if its a permissions issue?Where is it saved?This is RIP so I assumed its under ~/linuxcnc-dev somewhereMaybe QT saves elsewhere.

hmm, I wonder if there are some clues in /home/plasma/qtvcp.log

I will check it tonight

The file should be recorded in (substitute your home folder name for chris):
/home/chris/.config/QtVcp/

snowgoer540 wrote:

It seems that no matter what, on each restart (of LCNC), the following are always "None":

sect = self.SETTINGS_.value('sortIndicatorSection')
order = self.SETTINGS_.value('sortIndicatorOrder')

Although they are being assigned a value when they are getting set during the cleanup.

Also, if I hard code them (3 and 1 for date and descending), then it does work. So it's something with storing or recalling the setting.

 

could you add:
self.SETTINGS_.sync()

to file_manager in the _hal_cleanup function after the line:
self.SETTINGS_.setValue('sortIndicatorOrder', h.sortIndicatorOrder())

And see if that helps?

excellent. I found some time to test on an older system. It seems newer versions of qt must call synch() automatically, so i added the command to cover older systems.

Hopefully it works for everyone now.