0001859: Unable to select PNG files for icons for macros in Tools-Customize - FreeCAD Tracker

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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001859	FreeCAD	Bug	public	2014-12-17 09:45	2014-12-22 02:20

Reporter	piffpoof	Assigned To	wmayer
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Platform	Macintosh	OS	Mac OS X	OS Version	10.6.8
Product Version	0.14

Summary	0001859: Unable to select PNG files for icons for macros in Tools-Customize
Description	When trying to add customs icons (i.e. icons that are 64x64 bit PNG files) to the Tools->Customize, Macros tab, valid PNG files remain greyed out (i.e. non-selectable) in the file selection dialog. This may only be a problem on the Macintosh platform only as no one else reported it or corroborated it in the forums.
Steps To Reproduce	1 start FreeCAD 2 Tools->Customize 3 select Macros tab 4 select a Macro 5 click the button marked "…" beside the label "Pixmap" 6 in the new window "Choose Icon" click on the button "Add icons…" 7 the system specific standard file selection dialog will open, navigate to a folder with 64x64 bit PNG files 8 any PNG files will be greyed out the same as text files etc. Both the console and Report View remain empty of any error message
Additional Information	Based on suggestions in the forums, I executed the following lines through the console: Gui.addIconPath("/Users/macmini2/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD") Gui.addIconPath("/Users/macmini2/Desktop/scratch") There was no change to the system behavour. I used the file extension ".PNG" and ".png" just in case but with no change. Relevant forum postings are: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8707&start=20#p71911 http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8707&start=30#p72589 http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8707&start=30#p72601 I have tried to upload a screen snapshot of the file selection dialog but am not sure if it will make it OS: Mac OS X Word size: 64-bit Version: 0.14.3703 (Git) Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-14 Hash: c6edd47334a3e6f209e493773093db2b9b4f0e40 Python version: 2.7.5 Qt version: 4.8.6 Coin version: 3.1.3 SoQt version: 1.5.0 OCC version: 6.7.0
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FreeCAD Information

piffpoof 2014-12-17 09:45 reporter	~~screen snapshot.jpg~~ (Attachment missing)

piffpoof 2014-12-21 19:56 reporter ~0005427	I contacted peterl94 who was able to clarify the system behaviour as follows: ------------------------------------- The "Add icons" button is asking you to choose a folder where icons can be found, not individual icons. Any images in the folder that you choose will then show up in the list of icons, where you can then select the specific one that you want. I wonder if this is documented anywhere, because it is probably not what a lot of people expect. -------------------------------------- Apparently the 870 readers of the forum post and 34 responders weren't clear on this either. So perhaps the button label and the file selection window title should both be changed from "Select Icon" to "Select Icon Folder" That should make it a bit clearer for users.

wmayer 2014-12-22 02:10 administrator ~0005431	The button has been renamed to "Icon folders..." and it opens a sub-dialog where you can add or remove custom icon folders.

FreeCAD: master 5aefd2d3 2014-12-22 03:07:26 wmayer Details Diff	+ fixes 0001859: Unable to select PNG files for icons for macros in Tools-Customize		Affected Issues 0001859
	mod - src/Gui/BitmapFactory.cpp		Diff File
	mod - src/Gui/BitmapFactory.h		Diff File
	mod - src/Gui/DlgActionsImp.cpp		Diff File
	mod - src/Gui/DlgActionsImp.h		Diff File
	mod - src/Gui/DlgChooseIcon.ui		Diff File

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-12-17 09:45	piffpoof	New Issue
2014-12-17 09:45	piffpoof	File Added: screen snapshot.jpg
2014-12-21 19:56	piffpoof	Note Added: 0005427
2014-12-22 02:10	wmayer	Note Added: 0005431
2014-12-22 02:20	wmayer	Changeset attached	=> FreeCAD Master master 5aefd2d3
2014-12-22 02:20	wmayer	Assigned To	=> wmayer
2014-12-22 02:20	wmayer	Status	new => closed
2014-12-22 02:20	wmayer	Resolution	open => fixed