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ispyisail 279b001a16 Let a script apply element auto-numbering
useElementAutoNum(name)   select the current element numbering context
  numberElement(folio, el)  give one element its label from it

numberElement calls Element::setUpFormula(), the call the "add element"
tool makes right after placing an element, so a script gets the same
numbering: three coils numbered in turn are K1, K2, K3, and the counter
persists in the project (after a reload the next element is K3).

It is a separate call rather than a change to addElement(), which is
merged code: numbering what it places would change what an existing
script produces the moment its project happens to have a context selected.
A slave or a report is refused, since it takes its label from its master,
and so is a project with no context selected, instead of reporting a
success that did nothing.

setUpFormula() has a hazard for an element that is already placed. It
writes the label straight into the element's information and pushes only
the counter's advance onto the undo stack. Placing a new element hides
that, because undoing the placement removes the element; for an existing
one, a single undo rolled the counter back and left the label, so c3 stayed
"K3" while the counter went back to expecting K3 and the next numbering
would repeat a label it had forgotten. So the label it computed is taken,
the information put back, and the change pushed as a command inside the
same macro as the counter: one undo now reverts both, and renumbering c3
afterwards yields K3 again. Redo and the database agree.

Folio auto-numbering is deliberately not offered: in the application it
spawns whole new folios from a context, which is a different operation
from labelling. "Renumber existing conductors" has no equivalent to bind --
conductor numbering is applied when a conductor is created or moved, and
QElectroTech has no renumber-all action.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 21:56:31 +12:00
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