Each command will create an App::AutoTransaction to auto create and
commit a transaction for proper undo/redo. But if the command starts
editing, the current transaction may be required to out live the current
command.
Note that the command can only detect editing if the code calls
Gui::Document::setEdit(). There are objects that starts editing by
calling its own ViewProvider::setEdit(), e.g. various TechDraw
ViewProviders. In this case, to avoid auto committing, one can call
App::Application::setActiveTransaction() with the second argument set to
true, or call App::AutoTransaction::setEnable(false).
* Added Part::Feature::getTopoShape/getShape() function that can obtain
shape from any object with proper implementation of getSubObject(). It
can even construct compound from group object with proper implementation
of getSubObjects().
* Modified ViewProviderExt to work on any object, because it now obtain
the shape using Part::Feature::getShape()
* Modified various Part features to obtain base/tool shapes using
Part::getShape(), which allows them to be any type of object,
including Link and groups.
* Modified various Part command to relax type requirement on selected
objects.
* Add support of link and group to dimension, and add dimension refresh
command
* Support link and group in simple command command, and add a few more
copy command variations.
* Add special handling of 'Shape' attribute in PropertyContainerPy and
use Part::Feature::getShape() to return shape for any object without
Shape property. This allows many python feature work with any object
without modification.
* GeometrySurface/CurvePy, add convenience attribute 'Rotation'
* TopoShapePy:
* Extended support of sub shape attribute, e.g. Compound1, Solid2,
SubShape3 ('SubShape' is used to access child shape of a compound)
* makeWires(), new API to sort and return wires given a list of edges.
* transformed/translated/rotated/scaled(), return a new shape with
some transformation.
* findPlane(), find the plane of a planar shape
* isCoplanar(), check if two shape are coplanar
* Better module import error handling
* Allow co-installation of Python2 and Python3 version of FreeCAD
* Add FreeCAD.Logger class for convenient logging in Python. See class
document for more details.
* Add always zoom invariant and always on top rendering to
ViewProviderDatumCS
* Add a new utility class AxisOrigin for more efficient axis rendering.
Also exposed to python.
* Change ViewProviderPlacement to use AxisOrigin for rendering.
A single instance of AxisOrigin is shared by all
ViewProviderPlacement. Selection context is used to distinguish among
different instances.
* Add new API and signal handler in document observer
* Pre initialize python handler function to improve performance. In
case Python code use dynamic patching, i.e. add class method at
runtime (which is rare and should be discouraged), the python feature
can be re-initialized by simply assign proeprty Proxy again.
* Add property tracking in DocumentObjectT
* WidgetFactory adds support for accepting python QIcon, which is used
by ViewProviderPythonFeature
This patch includes the actual implementation of Link, which is
implemented as an extension named LinkBaseExtension in App namespace,
and a full view provider ViewProviderLink in Gui. The reason of not
using ViewProviderExtension is because it need full control when
display, not just extending existing functionalities.
Please see [here](https://git.io/fjPue) for more details of the
implementation.
This patch also includes a set of link manipulation commands, and a
task panel for overriding geometry element colors.
These are the bare minimum set of APIs for future new topogical naming
feature (see [here](https://git.io/fj6hy) for a overview of the new
APIs).
These APIs are added early to avoid too much code change for the new
features introduced in the current patch set.
The future patch will introduce Part::getTopoShape() to construct a
compound shape from a group. It will rely on the children visibility to
determine whether to include the child shape or not. This patch adds
children visibility tracking capability to group, and makes sure that
the group object will be marked for recomputation in case of any change
in group member, and their visibility status.
* Remove Prop_Output from 'Group' property.
* Added hidden property _GroupTouched to help propagate children change.
* Track children visibility change using signal
* GeoFeatureGroupExtension uses new PropertyLinkBase interface for
scope checking.
This patch adds support of recomputation with external linked object,
as well as external document auto loading and partial loading.
Application:
* Modified new/openDocument()/signalNewDocument to choose whether to
signal GUI for creating a view for the document. This makes it possible
to suppress view creation when opening external documents.
* New API openDocuments() which does the actual job of loading the
document together with any external dependencies. There are afew
extra arguments to allow setting FileName property differently from
the actual file path, which are required when auto loading
dependencies during document recovery (with future patch to
Gui::DocumentRecovery)
* openDocumentPrivate() is an internal helper for opening individual
document.
* New signalStart/FinishOpenDocument to be signaled before and after
opening a document. There may be multiple depending documents actually
opened in between these two signals.
* New signalBeforeRecomputeDocument signaled before recompute a
document.
* New API addPendingDocument() for use by external capable link
properties' to queue up external documents.
* isRestoring/isClosingAll(), for convenience status reporting.
Document:
* signalFinishImport/RestoreObjects, new signal triggered after imported
or restored all input objects
* signalBeforeRecompute, signaled before start recomputing this document
* Modified signalRecomputed with additional recomputed objects, this is
to make it more efficient for Gui::TreeWidget to check recomputation
result.
* signalSkipRecompute, signal to inform which objects are skipped
during recomputation because of their owner document SkipRecompute
setting.
* restore/save/read/writeObjects() modified to suport partial
loading. See [here](https://git.io/fj6PY) for more information.
* afterRestore(), internal function called to finish restore. The
function is separated from restore() because there is quite a few
critical steps needed to fully restore a document with external
linking. See [here](https://git.io/fj6P4) for more information.
* DocumentP::_RecomputeLog is modified to store more accurate object
recomputation error, including those happened during restore/import.
* isExporting(), new API for checking if an object is exporting.
External linking properties will use this function to decide how to
export.
* copyObject(), modified to support external linking objects, and
accepts multiple input objects.
* moveObject(), modified to support arbitary object moves. The original
implementation may cause crash if undo/redo is enabled. Furthermore,
because the original information fakes the object's deletion to break
its dependency, it does not work for objects that may auto delete their
children when being deleted. The new implementation copy the object,
and than paste it to the other document. It then deletes the input
objects from the original document. In case of recursive move, it only
deletes the depending object if it has an empty in list.
* importLinks(), new API to import any external object linked by the
input objects into this document. It will auto correct all link
references after importing.
* getDependencyList/_rebuildDependencyList(), these two APIs are unified
and implemented by an internal function _buildDependencyList() with a
new algorithm to handle external objects. The returned dependency list
will now include objects from external documents. In case of cyclic
dependencies, getDpendencyList() will report the actual objects
involved in dependency loops.
* mustExecute(), new API to check if there are any object requires
recomputation. This function will call _buildDependencyList() and
check for external objects as well.
* addRecomputeObject(), new API for marking changes during document
restore. It only marks the object but does not actually recompute
them for performance reason. One use case is for geo feature to
request for recomputation to generate geometry topological names.
* recompute(), support partial, external, and inverse dependency
recomputation. Improve error handling during recomputation.
See [here](https://git.io/fj6PO) for more information.
* _recomputeFeature(), suppoert user abort.
* getDependentDocuments/getInList(), new API to obtain an optional
dependency sorted list of depending documents.
DocumentObject:
* Add various ObjectStatus flags
* isExporting/getExportName(), return a safe name for exporting, in the
form of <ObjName>@<DocName>, which is guarrenteed to be unique.
Various link property will save linked object using this name if the
the linked object is exported together with the owner object, see
[PropertyLinkBase::restoreLabelReference()](https://git.io/fj6XO)
for more information.
* recomputeFeature(), add option to recompute this object together with
all its dependent objects.
* canLoadPartial(), new API for [partial document loading](https://git.io/fj6PY).
MergeDocuments:
* Move object name mapping logic to various link properties. See
Base::Sequencer:
* Add new API checkAbort() for checking user abort.
