Closed kklmn closed 4 years ago
Hi @kklmn ,
Q1. Can I get the gui geometry saved/restored automatically?
Saving should occur automatically unless you are affected by bug #1062). In normal circumstances, the TaurusMainWindow.closeEvent()
method calls to self.saveSettings()
). Check if you see an INFO-level log message about it in the console when closing (something like "Settings saved in foo.ini") .
Restoring also should occur automatically for "normal" TaurusGuis (e.g. those made with the wizard). More precisely, they call self.loadConfiguration()
which it ends up calling self._loadIniFile()
, which calls TaurusMainWindow.loadSettings()
.
Check for INFO-level "MainWindow settings restored" log message during initialization.
Maybe your GUIs are custom-made ones? If so, maybe they are missing a call to TaurusMainWindow.loadSettings()
.
Or maybe the loadConfiguration()
is exiting prematurely due to some exception?
Q2. Can a predefined perspective (e.g. 'default') be loaded automatically?
Programmatically: use TaurusMainWindow.loadSettings()
, or (since taurus 4.6) you can pass the settings file path to the TaurusGUI
constructor using the settingsname
argument.
From the Command line, since taurus 4.6, you can use the --ini
argument to the taurus gui
command to specify the desired settings file to be loaded.
Thank you Carlos! This was a very informative answer! I immediately created a request to our KITS to implement it and was hoping to report here on the results but it seems it will take a while. For now, I assume it will work and close the issue. Thanks again!
Hello,
We have two gui applications where the arrangement of panels is not preserved after a restart. Not only the sizes are changed but also relative positions, e.g. what was on the left appears at the bottom.
Q1. Can I get the gui geometry saved/restored automatically?
Q2. Can a predefined perspective (e.g. 'default') be loaded automatically? Presently, every time we restart a gui we apply a perspective, which is ok for beamline staff but not ok for external users.
Thank you!