new menu item: "Open Modelica Library"

[Lennart Ochel]

I use OMEdit without any pre-loaded libraries. In the case that I need one (e.g. MSL) it is annoying to click trough the directories until I am at $OPENMODELICALIBRARY. Maybe we should introduce a new menu entry next to “Open Modelica File(s)” called “Open Modelica Library”, which takes me directly to $OPENMODELICALIBRARY.
What do you think?

[Martin Sjölund]

Why not something like the dialogue box when we add libraries? $OPENMODELICALIBRARY is not a single directory, but a set of directories.

Anyway, the existing dialogue knows the names of all available Modelica libraries and presents a drop-down list.

[Lennart Ochel]

You are right, that would be even better. I guess the „Open Modelica Library“ item should than display the dialogue box from Tools -> Options -> Libraries -> Add.

[Adeel Asghar]

Why should we do that? Just use the “Open Modelica File(s)” and choose the package.mo of Modelica library.

[Lennart Ochel]

Replying to lochel:

In the case that I need one (e.g. MSL) it is annoying to click trough the directories until I am at $OPENMODELICALIBRARY.

A user (eg. me) do not always know where the libraries are.

[Adeel Asghar]

Added a new drop down menu in the File Menu which allows to load all the available libraries. r16282.

[Martin Sjölund]

You need a refresh button (or making it a drow-down dialogue instead of a menu). I like to add libraries during OMEdit runtime :)

[Adeel Asghar]

Replying to sjoelund.se:

You need a refresh button (or making it a drow-down dialogue instead of a menu). I like to add libraries during OMEdit runtime :)

Yes you can add the library now during the runtime but loading a library with different version is not possible.

[Martin Sjölund]

Replying to adeas31:

Yes you can add the library now during the runtime but loading a library with different version is not possible.

No, if I apt-get install a new library while OMEdit is already running, the menu items do not update. You need to refresh the list :D