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[Request] Add support for plugins to define coloring strategy in GCODE viewer #1515

Open foosel opened 7 years ago

foosel commented 7 years ago

See PR #1503 which sadly clashes with the color coding done to distinguish multiple extruders.

It would be interesting to allow the user to switch between multiple color strategies within the GCODE viewer, instead of forcing multi extruder color coding.

Examples of interesting coloring options:

Those coloring options should be providable by (frontend) plugins.

The involved steps would (roughly) be the following:

Also potentially related: #838

bjcosta commented 6 years ago

I would find the ability to assign colour to temperature useful to verify a temperature tower is in fact doing what I wanted. Not a major feature, but useful for this use case. The above described feature would be a good way to achieve that