Weird behavior of "Save as" in OMEdit

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

Consider any Modelica class, e.g.,

model Test
  constant Real one=1;
equation
end Test;

In OMEdit hit CTRL+S to save the file. The select File -> Save AS. A window appears which allows the input of two fields:

Name: 
Path: 

There are two aspects I want to point out here:

1. PATH

Why is Path used here at all? When it comes to save a class or package as something, I would not expect to pick a different Modelica path.

If I pick the case of

Name: Test 
Path: Test

then a duplicate of Test is created within model Test which seems not be legal Modelica code. This behavior reminds me of #4875, however.

2. DIFFERENT NAME

If I pick

Name: Test2 
Path: 

instead, a duplicate of Test is created as Test2 and a dialog appears as expected to pick a new location to store the class or package. The class is then renamed and stored under the new name. So the input of a path is not required here.

[Adeel Asghar]

Yeah this is because save as is duplicate behind the scenes and I don't remember why. Perhaps we have just followed Dymola. I checked in Dymola and its the same behavior.

I think there was some reason behind doing this which I don't remember at the moment.

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

It is, however, possible in Dymola to save model (Test) in a different folder, without the strict need to rename the model. This behavior is NOT possible in OpenModelica. If I keep the name (Test) an press OK, then an error message appears:

class Test already exists in Top Level.

In OpenModelica one has to pick a different name in order to get to the dialog where the folder location of the renamed model can be picked. If, instead of the error message, a "Save as" dialog appeared, I think the behavior were OK.

[Francesco Casella]

Rescheduled to 1.14.0 after 1.13.0 releasee

[Francesco Casella]

@adeas31, could this be fixed? I also find quite annoying that I cannot save a package somewhere else without changing its name, which is normally something you don't want to do - you just need to save the same package somewhere else.

[Francesco Casella]

Releasing 1.14.0 which is stable and has many improvements w.r.t. 1.13.2. This issue is rescheduled to 1.16.0

[Francesco Casella]

Retargeted to 1.17.0 after 1.16.0 release

[Francesco Casella]

Retargeted to 1.18.0 because of 1.17.0 timed release.

[Francesco Casella]

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

[Adeel Asghar]

​https://github.com/OpenModelica/OpenModelica/pull/8814