[Gmsh] Save options file upon exit automatically?

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Hi guys,

We should indeed clarify/enhance the "save options" behavior. At the moment we can choose between three "levels" when saving options: 

- "session" (gets saved by default in .gmshrc on exit)
- "option" (can get saved in .gmsh-options on exit, or is saved there manually when choosing "Save Options->As default")
- "full" (used when explicitly saving the options)

Maybe we could provide a way to save the options for the current file each time we exit? This could make Gmsh be completely "persistent" per model. Or do you have other suggestions?

Let me know what you think.

Christophe

On 28 Jul 2011, at 10:48, Christophe Henrard wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thanks again for your answer. I totally agree with you: it's sometimes hard to find a scripting equivalent to some of the GUI commands. I do something very similar to you in terms of saving options and restarting with a script that reloads them. And I must say that I'm quite happy with it so far. 
> But in order to be even more efficient, I wanted gmsh to automatically save the options upon exit (as if I had done it with the menus) and then, my script would ask me if I want to keep these options or not for next time. It might be available in one of the next releases ;-)
> 
> Christophe
>   
> On 28-Jul-11 1:25 AM, Geordie McBain wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> 
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