my macro not auto starting? since changed to 2021/09/16

[bambukouk]

I am using (all the time) a macro created by mario52.
It was working fine until I updated to FreeCAD-asm3-Daily-Win64-Py3-Qt5-20210916

It will not autostart when I open FreeCAD.
I can start it manually, but it is a bit of a PITA.

I am sure it is probably trivial for someone who knows what they are doing (but that's not me...).
It's all there and unchanged and parameter editor is still OK:

so perhaps someone can help me, please?

here is the only bit of the macro that is likely to cause problem:
import FreeCAD, FreeCADGui
App = FreeCAD
Gui = FreeCADGui

import PySide2
from PySide2 import (QtWidgets, QtCore, QtGui)
from PySide2.QtWidgets import (QWidget, QVBoxLayout, QStyle, QDockWidget, QToolBar, QDialog)
from PySide2.QtGui import (QColor, QIcon)
from PySide2.QtCore import QSize

global switchConventionalView # switchConventionalView 0, 1
global switchToolbarIconSize    # switchToolbarIconSize 0, 1 
                                # 0 = size icon FreeCAD parameters
                                # 1 = size on choice
global sizeIconX                # size X icon (if switchToolbarIconSize = 1)
global sizeIconY                # size Y icon (if switchToolbarIconSize = 1)
global setFCIconModel           # 0 = FreeCAD icon fromTheme
                                # 1 = Locomotive icon
                                # 2, 3, .... other only Text
global setStyleSheetToolBar     # 0 = not setStyleSheet
                                # color in HTML format ex: "#F8E6E0" (by default)
global switchNotRunAuto         # 0 = run automatic            ## is include in initGui.py file (change only in user parameter)
                                # 1 = not run the macro        ## is include in initGui.py file (change only in user parameter)

[realthunder]

Can you please provide a link to the macro so that I can try?

[bambukouk]

Thank you realthunder! 👍
Macro below:

ToolViewReverse_ToolBar_22-10-2020_b.zip

[realthunder]

The required modification of ToolViewReverse_ToolBar.FCMacro is as follow. Since ToolViewReverse_ToolBar.py is exactly the same as .FCMacro file, it needs the same modification.

Basically, my branch changes how toolbar position are preserved by always pre-creating all toolbars that has ever appeared in FreeCAD, so that Qt can save and restore the exact position of these toolbars. The pre-created toolbars has the same object name as before, but no content. So for existing toolbar related addon or macro, instead of checking if the toolbar with a given name exists, it shall check if the toolbar has any content, or as a shortcut, if the toolbar has the title.

@@ -1120,24 +1120,27 @@
 mw = FreeCADGui.getMainWindow()
 tb = mw.findChildren(QtWidgets.QToolBar)
 
-switchtbar = 0
+switchtbar = None
 
 for i in tb:
     if str(i.objectName()) == "MyViewTBar":
-        FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("MyViewTBar" + " is already open" + "\n")
-        switchtbar = 1
+        switchtbar = i
 #        if i.isVisible():
 #            i.setVisible(False)                    # visible False
 #        else:
         i.setVisible(True)                     # visible True
         break
 
-if switchtbar == 0:
+if switchtbar == None:
     toolbar1 = QtWidgets.QToolBar()
     toolbar1.setObjectName("MyViewTBar")
+    mw.addToolBar(toolbar1) 
+else:
+    toolbar1 = switchtbar
+
+if not toolbar1.windowTitle():
     toolbar1.setWindowTitle("MyViewTBar")
     
-    mw.addToolBar(toolbar1) 
     toolbar1.setIconSize(QSize(sizeIconX, sizeIconY))
 
     try:

ToolViewReverse_ToolBar.FCMacro.zip

[bambukouk]

Thank you 👍
however, (unless I got things wrong...) your attached macro is no different from original?
or was I supposed to modify the macro using the code you have suggested?
I still have the same problem - sorry for being so thick.

[realthunder]

The attached script is the modified one.

[bambukouk]

The attached script is the modified one.
sorry, can see it now!

I have copied ToolViewReverse_toolbar.FCMacro into C:\Users\bambuko\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Macro directory.

and the same file (renamed ToolViewReverse_toolbar.py) into C:\Users\bambuko\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Mod\ToolViewReverse_ToolBar directory.

Then tried openning FreeCAD - no sign of "my" toolbar :-(
but report view shows macro fired OK:

and parameter is set correctly (set icon):

so... I am puzzled :-(

later edit:
the only way for the tool bar icons to appear is to manualy execute the recent macro:

after which it appears again in the toolbar:

[realthunder]

Yeah, there is indeed some incompatibility introduced in the current release. I'll fix that in the next one. Meanwhile, try the script below for a workaround. It uses a timer to force showing the toolbar. This is not the recommended way, but should be able to do its work for the time being.

ToolViewReverse_ToolBar.py.zip

[bambukouk]

Thank you very much, indeed 👍

[bambukouk]

@realthunder

just a sanity check, please

realthunder/FreeCAD@47522a6 is not yet part of the latest release (2021.09.22)?

because I have tried the macro you have modified for me #833 (comment) and it is still not working as it should ...

In the meantime I am using "...not the recommended way..." script #833 (comment)

sorry to be such pain