[Gmsh] Save options file upon exit automatically?

[Christophe Henrard]

Hi,
Thanks for clarifying this. Your suggestion sounds like a good idea to 
me. I think it would indeed be useful to give the user the possibility 
to save all the options.
Have a nice day,
Christophe
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On 06-Aug-11 3:40 PM, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> 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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