[Gmsh] Save options file upon exit automatically?

[Geordie McBain]

2011/7/27 Christophe Henrard <Christophe.Henrard at samtech.com>:
> Hello,
> Thanks Goerdie for your reply. I tried your idea. Even though I had gone
> through all the option parameters, it seemed I had skipped that one. Anyway,
> it partially works: some general options are saved in the "OptionFileName"
> and some others in "SessionFileName". Unfortunately, it only saves a very
> small number of options. I thought it was only the "modified options" (since
> you can change that in a dialog box when you manually save options) but it's
> not even that. In particular, the camera view (General.RotationX/Y,
> ScaleX/Y/Z, TranslationX/Y, Trackball), and Graphics windows and clipping
> planes are not saved. Any idea how to save all the options?

No, sorry, I'm out of ideas.

I do have to address this issue quite often, as I'll want to make a
set of images with exactly the same viewpoint etc.  What I do is set
the first up manually in the GUI, manually save the options file, and
then use that saved options file for the rest.

Sometimes I find that there are things that can be done easily enough
in the GUI but don't have obvious scripting equivalents.  Here saving
the options is one.  Another earlier this year
<http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/2011/006145.html> was
`Tools/Plugins/New view'.  Gmsh does have a nice GUI as GUIs go, but I
prefer scripting wherever possible.  Hopefully someone else will have
hit on the answer and will post it here.