Required GIL locking has been added where Python methods are
called.
The code mapping from codepage names like ansi_nnn to cpnnnn has
been altered a bit to shorten it.
The "a" in "aci" refers to a trademark which we want to avoid mentioning
in code. These values are indices into a color table (plus two special
values for BYBLOCK and BYLAYER) so using the term colorIndex seems more
readable.
The C++ importer incorrectly treated the contents of all TEXT and MTEXT
objects as beind encoded as UTF-8, but this is not true for DXF files
before AutoCAD 2007, where the encoding is "plain ASCII" plus some in-band
\U+dddd encoding. This would cause errors if the text contained non-ASCII
characters such as the Degree Sign.
This change causes the correct encoding to be used.
If the MTEXT exceeds 250 characters, the contents are broken up into
several records in the DXF file. The C++ importer has been changed
to collect all these pieces into a single string containing all the text.
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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
