Open icojb25 opened 1 month ago
See #148
Hi @icojb25. Thanks a lot for your efforts.
Would it be possible to modify this to use the name of the document rather than 'FoamAnalysis' as the subdirectory? So that the case directories for different files don't overwrite each other. This was the initial complaint raised in #148 if I understood correctly.
Hi @icojb25. Thanks a lot for your efforts.
Would it be possible to modify this to use the name of the document rather than 'FoamAnalysis' as the subdirectory? So that the case directories for different files don't overwrite each other. This was the initial complaint raised in #148 if I understood correctly.
Sure, but its not clear what the OP wanted. He talked about use the Project label but also "beside FCStd" so. Current behaviour is /tmp/meshCase
or /tmp/case
. So what is the expected behaviour:
/tmp
as default and use active project label as default (this will not write on /, where should it default to writing?) (still under /tmp
ie /tmp/MyProjectname/meshCase
and /tmp/MyProjectname/case
, and thenBesideFCStd file
option and write to ./currentFCStddir/MyProjectname/meshcase
and ./currentFCStddir/MyProjectname/case
To my mind, 1) is not a great option since /tmp
is supposed to be temporary and not a persistence location. Using what i guess is OP's original suggestion will end up with reams of folders under /tmp
which are never cleaned up. Defaulting to $HOME/MyProjectname
or something under $HOME/CfdOF/MyProjectname
would be better.
Perhaps someone can define the behaviour better.
Also NB Opening the Preferences pane before a project is opened is going to break the code since there is no ActiveDocument
at this stage.
Sure, but its not clear what the OP wanted. He talked about use the Project label but also "beside FCStd" so. Current behaviour is
/tmp/meshCase
or/tmp/case
. So what is the expected behaviour:
What I had in mind was
<user specified dir>/MyProjectname/{meshCase,case}
or
currentFCStddir/MyProjectname/{meshCase,case}
if 'Beside .FCStd file' is checked
To my mind, 1) is not a great option since
/tmp
is supposed to be temporary and not a persistence location. Using what i guess is OP's original suggestion will end up with reams of folders under/tmp
which are never cleaned up. Defaulting to$HOME/MyProjectname
or something under$HOME/CfdOF/MyProjectname
would be better.
/tmp does get cleaned on reboot (on Linux anyway), but you have a point. I suppose this is the reason why the FEM workbench has a third option to manage the storage automatically on /tmp. I guess it probably overwrites the data when in this mode.
Maybe the safest option would be to have another check box to turn on or off the appending of the document name to the path.
Also NB Opening the Preferences pane before a project is opened is going to break the code since there is no
ActiveDocument
at this stage.
I would not recommend having the document label appear in the preference page. I would just append it to the path when the case is written.
Makes changes to the Preferences panel to allow setting a relative directory to
FoamAnalysis
as a subdirectory in the same directory in which theFCStd
is located.