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Refactor:
- Substitute the use of variadic templates with parameter packs.
- Use recently incorporated external library "fmt" to handle printf like formating.
- Extensive cleaning of pragmas and unnecessary forward declarations.
- Parameter packs and libfmt provide a much stronger type checking now, so
conversions that are by standard implicit as bool to int need an explicit static_cast
to avoid compilation warnings.
Extension:
- Include a notifier field, so that the originator of the message can be provided. E.g. Document#DocumentObject
- Include a new type of message called CriticalMessage, this message is intended to have
special behaviour in the future. Namely, it will be used to notify forward compatilibity issues.
It will be used to substitute the current signal/slot mechanism.
- Include two new types of messages for user notifications (Notification and TranslatedNotification). This messages
will be use to convey UI notifications intended for the user (such as non-intrusive message about the usage of a tool). There
are two versions to mark whether the string provided as a message is already translated or not. When using the console system for
notifications, these notifications may originate from the App or the Gui. In the former, it is generally the case that the strings
of messages are not (yet) translated (but they can be marked with QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP). In the latter, often the messages to be provided
are already translated.
Python support for CriticalMessage, Notification and TranslatedNofification, including shortcuts:
Crt = FreeCAD.Console.PrintCritical
Ntf = FreeCAD.Console.PrintNotification
Tnf = FreeCAD.Console.PrintTranslatedNotification
* QString::indexOf() is now marked as [[nodiscard]]
* Replace deprecated methods of QMessageBox
* QMouseEvent::globalPos() is deprecated, use globalPosition().toPoint()
* QWidget::enterEvent() requires a QEnterEvent as argument
* QLibraryInfo::location() is deprecated, use path()
* QVariant::Type is deprecated, use QMetaType::Type
* QVariant::canConvert(int) is deprecated, use QVariant::canConvert(QMetaType) or QVariant::canConvert<T>()
* QMessageBox::standardIcon is deprecated, use QStyle::standardIcon()
* Replace deprecated method QMessageBox::question(), ...
* QApplication::fontMetrics() is deprecated
* QDropEvent::mouseButtons() is deprecated, use buttons()
* QDropEvent::keyboardModifiers() is deprecated, use modifiers()
* Constructor of QFontDatabase is deprecated, use static methods instead
* Qt::AA_DisableHighDpiScaling is deprecated
* Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling is deprecated
* Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps is deprecated
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Add Status bits. Currently only to mark whether an UI operation of restore was initiated by the user (via click in the open dialog or in the hyperlink of the shortcuts of the home page).
* On lines where the variable type is obvious from inspection, avoid repeating the type using auto.
* When possible use a ranged for loop instead of begin() and end() iterators
* distinguish between temp and cache location
* document's transident directory is created in the cache location
* add functions to access temp and cache location via Python
