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* [CAM] extract tool controller ui elements into their own file
* [CAM] make the changes in the tool controller UI only apply when ok is clicked
* [CAM] Add tool controller edit panel to the Profile operation
* [CAM] Add copy button to in-operation tool controller editor
* [CAM] clean up changes
* [CAM] Add tool controller edit UI to all operations
Notes on changes that were not a simple copy/paste job from the changes
I made for Profile:
- Deburr: changed TC/coolant rows from 1 and 2 to 0 and 1
- Probe: didn't work at all initially due to bug in main where ShapeName
changed to ShapeType. I added a utility for reading either a ShapeType
or a ShapeName (check for both properties, convert ShapeType to lower
case) and applied it to probe and camotics
- Drilling: moved Keep Tool Down checkbox up from row 8 to row 2 (all
intermediate rows were missing) and added the edit checkbox in row 3
below it
- VBit, Probe (or anything else that requires a specific tool type): in
Base.py setupToolController(), I added a check to see if the currently
selected tool is an invalid type, and if so and there is a valid tool,
then change to that one. This fixes two UI bugs. Plausibly pre-existing,
if there is one valid tool and an invalid tool is selected, it's
impossible to switch to the valid one because you can't generate a combo
box change event for the new tool. Definitely new: if an invalid tool is
selected and there are no valid tools, the combo box will be empty but
the new tool controller edit utility will let you edit the current TC
anyway.
- Thread Milling: replaced the Tool Controller GroupBox with the
standard QFrame layout, and added the checkbox. Note that this
operation doesn't have a UI element for coolant -- likely a bug, but I
didn't look into it
- Surface: Changed from form layout to grid layout. Deleted an old
SurfaceEdit.ui file -- it was replaced with PageOpSurfaceEdit.ui in
2017 but not deleted (commit 8637831132)
- Waterline: Changed from form layout to grid layout
* [CAM] Bug fixes
setupUi() wasn't called on the tool controller editor, preventing
changes in its UI from being written back to the object immediately.
This caused weird behavior where if you edited a field twice it would
reset the second time it was focused
Added a hook to automatically update the TC combo box when the TC name
(or anything else about it, since that was easier) changes
* Fix usage of QSignalBlockers
* [CAM] Block scroll events on tool number and spindle direction when not
focused
Specifically, if you mouse over either of these UI elements and use the
scroll wheel, it used to focus the element and change its value. This
commit makes it do neither of those things, for these specific elements,
as a measure against users accidentally changing these values.
* disable tcNumber edit field in operations panel
* Add "New tool controller" option to TC combo box
When selected, it opens (toggles, technically) the tool bit dock and
returns to the previous selection. Adding a new tool controller using
the dock (already, before this commit) automatically switches the
operation's tool controller to the new one
* Add "Copy" option to tool controller combo box
* Copy TC function only in combo box, no button
* [CAM] update in-operation "new tool controller" function to use a dialog
* [CAM] make the tool selector always a dialog and never a dock
* remove spacer from ToolControllerEdit.ui to fix exces white space
* [CAM] change tool dialog default sizing/spacing
* [CAM] fix bug where copying tool controller doesn't copy all values
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