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DeepSOIC / Lattice2

FreeCAD workbench about arrays of all sorts and kinds, and local coordinate systems
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Attachment using objects name instead of label #40

Open leoheck opened 4 years ago

leoheck commented 4 years ago

Hi, I am experimenting with this lattice2 plugin. Thanks, by the way, it is awesome.

I am using the polar array, and in the Attachment panel I am seeing this Pad004 but I don't have any Pad004, this name is hidden from the user. What I have is wall_ribs instead. This is the name that the plugin should use. What happens it most of the time the user does not rename features so de label has the same name as the object.

Ah, and this should be used everywhere if you agree that this is an important change.

DeepSOIC commented 4 years ago

well, attachment panel displays internal name for a reason: it is unique.

leoheck commented 4 years ago

Yes, I see. It should be using it internally, but it can display a label for the user. Or, even better, a label (name) pair.

leoheck commented 4 years ago

When I clicked in the Body, I saw this. Maybe following the same pattern (seen in 0.19) may be even better.

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DeepSOIC commented 4 years ago

It should be using it internally, but it can display a label for the user.

The fact that the field is editable gets in the way (i.e. you can copy-paste these refs from one field to another, or modify index). It is of course doable (e.g. the text is modified as soon as you put a cursor in the field), but it's complicated.

leoheck commented 4 years ago

I see you are right, you have a good point. My last attempt to help users, maybe splitting this field, with the name being able to edit and the label being displayed on its side?