Open GUI in read-only mode

[Rfaelv]

Hi, everyone.

I have a question about the method open_gui. Initially, I thought that setting inplace=False would reproduce a GUI opening in read-only mode. But by testing I concluded that it doesn't. Then I would like to understand if it's possible to open the GUI in realy-only mode in some other way.

[mikerife]

Hi @Rfaelv MAPDL does not have an read-only mode. What is the intent of having a read-only mode? Sharing the model/results with someone? Or another reason?
Mike

[Rfaelv]

Hi @mikerife, thanks for the reply. I made a script to share with my co-researchers and I would like to allow them to open the GUI right before the analysis began to visualize and check the model, but without the permission to edit it.
By making small changes to the open_gui method I achieved this. When the parameter inplace is False the current code is defined to resume after closing the GUI based on the database in the temp directory. I changed the code to always resume based on the database of the run_locale directory. In this way, if inplace=True the changes made through the GUI are considered and if inplace=False doesn't. Then with inplace=False the GUI opening behaves like in read-only mode.

[mikerife]

@Rfaelv ok - I'd not call that a read-only mode as the co-reseacher can work with model as opposed to the UI not working at all. But if all you need is the model being built via PyMAPDL not touched, then great process!
mike

[germa89]

As @Rfaelv mentioned this is not a current feature in PyMAPDL, and there is no plans to implement it for the near future. However @Rfaelv feel free to propose your changes in a PR!