Please demonstrate using a remote text editor to substitute the Python editor in FreeCAD

[Kunda1]

I'm finding the internal python editor / macro editor to be inferior to my preferable GUI text editor which is Atom. I'd like to see a screencast of someone using an external editor to control FreeCAD GUI.

An aside: it's very cool to see how blender is getting there internal text editor updated in these latest releases. I'll post some links when I have a moment. Very impressive.
Example:
https://mobile.twitter.com/rintworin/st ... 8291027968
https://mobile.twitter.com/rintworin/st ... 0670795776
https://mobile.twitter.com/rintworin/st ... 8063867904

[Kunda1]

anyone?

[Cyril]

I will do one but I'm currently overflowed. Maybe a short one next week end.

[Cyril]

I am not sure that it is what you expected to see after I read your message again but here it is :

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Fact is that there is many discussion on this subject on this forum but none I found explains a way to catch and control a running FreeCAD instance as you can do with for example Libre Office from python.

[Bayesian]

You could use FreeCAD from Jupyter notebook, but then you have to start the FreeCAD application in there, also. It gives you very nice interactive and pythonic control over FC, though.

I have another Forum post where I describe how to put an asyncio event loop into the FreeCAD app. You could run an HTTP Server, like FastAPI or just aiohttp, and execute Python scripts from POST requests. Then you can write a simple script to "remotely inject" a script.

[Bayesian]

And for Blender scripting, I actually recommend to create python packages, and start blender from scratch each time you change the code. The problem is that Blender tends to accumulate "state" and it's important to make sure the scripts work from scratch or at least from known blend files.

Of course, I also implemented a Jupyter kernel and an asyncio event loop for Blender....

[Kunda1]

Great job on this clip. I had no idea about .env files. I need to explore this further.
I'm still going through the clip a little piece at a time.

Noteworthy: App:Part documentation doesn't show up in the editor. Wonder what that is about?

[Kunda1]

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What page on the wiki should we add this to?

[Cyril]

What page on the wiki should we add this to?

I have described a part of it in Debugging. Maybe a specific page should be created like «Setup your IDE» which will contain guidance for common IDEs.

[Cyril]

I have updated my article with enhanced auto-completion using freecad-stubs.