On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 05:54:28PM -0500, Art Haas wrote: > Hi. > > The patch below addresses a problem I found regarding the newly added > autosplitting code. The issue was that a layer would be set to not > perform any autosplitting regardless of what the checkbox in the > Preferences dialog setting. > > By default, autosplitting is off when the program starts unless you > install the 'prefs.py' file into /etc/pythoncad and set Autosplit > to True. I'd done that on my development machine, so I didn't see > this problem until running PythonCAD on another machine where > the default autosplit value was still False. Now, when an object > is added to the Layer, the object invokes its setParent() method > to store the Layer as the parent entity. If the newly added object > is a Point, the Image instance containing the Layer will call > the setAutosplit() method of the Layer, and it is at this point > that things break because the autosplitting state variable the > Layer examines - self.__asplit in the code below - gets set > to False and never toggled back to the True value. So, the Layer > ends up never performing autosplitting. > [ ... snip ... ]
Hi. The patch I sent above works, but after thinking about the problem more I am not certain the approach used in resolving the problem is the right choice. Unfortunately I don't have a better patch available at the moment, so it will have to do for now. Art -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822 _______________________________________________ PythonCAD mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad
