Teach configtool to save ini, board and printer files with the
--save commandline switch. Add a feature to Printer and Board
to let us pass None for the "values" to save; this causes the
class to save the previously loaded settings instead of taking
new settings in the argument.
Also add --quit switch to tell commandline not to continue to run the
GUI. There's not much point in running the gui after many of these
switches, but that will change in the future. Add this --quit option
to quit early so we can begin to use this new mode for test validation.
Teach configtool command line functions to load the printer, board
or ini file settings into internal classes. For now this only
exercises the "load" functionality of the classes, but with -vv
you can also see the results of the load dumped to the console.
Instead of passing myriad variables around in arguments to
classes and functions, put the global settings like "verbose" and
"cmdFolder" in the Settings object and pass that in to the top.
The idea is to open the user's email client automatically, so
(s)he has not much more to do than to write a sentence about what
went wrong. As easy as possible!
This is work related to issue #159.
When double-clicking configtool.py, these error messages are
never visible, because the window running the command closes
immediately. Give 10 seconds for reading.
This is related to issue #158.
This is the expected outcome, so explicitely reporting this, with
requiring the user to click a dialog box away, is kind of clutter.
This should solve issue #136.
Previously, loading default configurations for board or printer,
then modifying them without saving them, then attempting to
build lead to a big mess, like attempting to save the board file,
failing in doing so and then building anyways.
Likely users don't care too much about the name of the saved file,
so they likely use the default ones. If they mess up, they also
likely want to return to the original, but, d'oh, it's overwritten.
Don't let this happen, enforce a non-original file name for user
saves.
In other words: don't let users shoot themselfs into their foot.
Phil Hord
Markus Hitter
jbernardis