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pyFormex 3.5 has been released

Item posted by Benedict Verhegghe <bverheg> on Fri 09 Feb 2024 03:41:30 PM UTC.

Version 3.5 of pyFormex is available from the download area:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/pyformex/pyformex-3.5.tar.gz

Here's a list of the most important additions, improvements and bug fixes in this release:
- pyformex command line has option --workdir to set the current working
directory at startup
- colors.py:
- Color class replaces most of the functions
- color lightness computes the perceived brightness of a color
- colorArray class for large sets of colors
- normalized color names, from three sources: pyformex, x11, xkcd(new)
- camera: restore the truck, pan, tilt functions, add new rotcam method.
Now all operations on real camera movements are (again) available.
The digital replacements are also kept.
- Dialog: add an option to suppress smart placement/sizing
- pyconsole: now supports searching in history
- warnings: clean up existing messages, make clear distinction between
three warnig functions: utils.warn, pf.warning, pf.error
- scripts/apps: menus with a huge number of entries are automatically
split over multiple submenus
- timer module is renamed to timing, with classes Timing and Timings
- new gui.timer module has a Timer class based on QTimer
- new application FileDedup: find duplicate files in the file system
- interactive picking now allows picking from single or multiple actors
- implement multiple wire modes: none, all, feature, border
- improved or new examples: ColorPick, CameraMoves, Lightness, ColorRGBA,
Pickable, FontForge
- pf.debug and pf.verbose functions are deprecated
- add desktop integration on install
- a lot of bug fixes, of which these are prominent:
- arraytools: fix the import of the accelerated nodalsum function
- TriSurface.featureEdges now includes the border edges
- the draw2d plugin now works
- drawing with 4-component color works again
- pass all keyword parameters from FileDialog to Dialog
- some opengl bugs and some printing with f-strings
- wire mode button now works correctly and provides more modes