Flipping the block in the GUI should not flip the block's picture about pysimcoder

[robertobucher]

You're right! I have to check the last commit: it increase the quality of the graphic but with this problem.
I'll check it ASAP

[zdebanos]

Thank you for your answer. I may look into it as well when I have time. I just put it here to not forget about it.

[zdebanos]

I was searching for solutions but I haven't found an easy way to do the svg flip in Qt. I consider using another Python library to do the svg transformations.

[robertobucher]

I've put a temporary solution to avoid the flipping of the images in blocks.
I think that instead of using the "/tmp" folder we can try to implement a ram disk in the future or setting the rendering of the block in the block class and modifying it only by some actions...

[zdebanos]

Thank you very much Roberto. I was thinking about doing the same thing, however using something more pythonic. I've come across svgutils python package, which could prove useful. However, it only works with files and I am trying to get a simple pull request into its mainline that could work with the xml loaded as a string so there would be no need to save it as a tmpfile (btel/svg_utils#129).

Svgutils package has a scale method which can flip the image. It is also much more simple and doesn't require inkscape to run.

[robertobucher]

I haven't found how to use svg_utils (no examples...), but this is of course a better solution as using "inkscape"!

Let me know when you find how to use this package!

[robertobucher]

Please consider that we have to work usually with packages available in distros, and avoid when possible to have to many gits.