Pie Menu Improved

mdkus · January 31, 2024, 12:40pm

Hi folks,
unfortunately I had no time in '23 to maintain PieMenu2.0. And in the future I’ll have no time too.

So Grub can take over maintaining the PieMenu.

https://devtalk.freecad.org/t/pie-menu-improved/74921/74

Go!

Pendelf · January 31, 2024, 3:47pm

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Just as an idea, perhaps you can make the highlighting depending on where the cursor is pointing, or just an arrow like in LinkBranch

hasecilu · January 31, 2024, 4:25pm

Thanks for your response, I think we can proceed to update the url on FreeCAD addons. I made a PR there: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons/pull/285
I’m not sure if more discussion is needed either here or on GitHub, maybe let’s wait feedback on the PR.

Thanks to all maintainers, your contributions have truly improved FreeCAD UX.

Grub · January 31, 2024, 4:49pm

What benefit does this feature bring?

Pendelf · January 31, 2024, 5:52pm

Adds informativeness about cursor position (background is light and mouse cursor is also light, as an example), plus it looks visually beautiful imho

Grub · January 31, 2024, 6:06pm

ok, we’ll find someone who can code this in python..

pablogil · January 31, 2024, 9:01pm

I would love to see it implemented =)
It’s not only visually beautiful but sometimes it decides what command is “preloaded” to be triggered. That way there are no gaps between commands

bleber · February 1, 2024, 12:09am

I thik that you already know, but to remember there are one old addon ( 5 years unmantained ) named “Command panel” that have some good ideas to incorporate.

Some things I like from “Command panel” addon:

Custom menu with trigget at workbench context.
Workflow to add remove items from to menu.
Menu sepatators and spacers to increment the menu order.
Submenus ( a special icon to start another custom pie menu for example )

Some things I have to speed modelling:
I incorporate some macros to my menu to increase speed for example

In sketcher menu I have a custom macro to exit from the sketch and pad directly and anothet to exit and pocket, in conjunction to add the lenght directli with the spinbox spedds up all things. Are you planned add some main tools parameters near the spinbox?
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