On 09:48 PM 26/06/2001 +1000, Ian Wilson said:
>>1. can you display both relative and absolute co-ords in the pcb editor? ie.
>>if i go to move something by dragging display 0,0 where its dragged from? i
>>know i can reset the origin etc but thats a pain.
>
>No - if an offset coordinate is defined then all positions are relative to
>the offset centre. This is not the case for some reports (drill report/
>Export to spreadsheet? and some others?) but is the case for all the major
>things like component positions and the XY display in the status bar. It
>is possible that a revised X/Y status bar server could be written (I did
>look into it briefly some time ago) but I am not too sure. (It really
>would be nice to be allowed to openly discuss the API - the silence after
>repeated public and private requests for some movement on the NDA has been
>deafening. Oh well.)
I have just looked in more detail into the possibility of overriding the
default XY location status bar display and I suspect I have misunderstood
the question, originally.
It may be possible to override the normal move object function(s) and for
the duration of the move show a revised status bar that shows the distance
the object has been moved as well as the actual coordinates. But it
requires more effort in understanding the API than I am prepared to spend
just now. It may be different if we could talk openly..... Also it might
get slightly ugly as I suspect the status bar display would suffer
unpleasant flicker.
This suggestion may need to be implemented at a lower level that possible
using the API. So add it to the suggestion list:
Suggestions that I recall for the XY display in the status bar:
1) Show both metric and imperial coords simultaneously
2) When dragging an object/selection etc show the distance the object has
been moved. Much like the track length is displayed during track placement
I s'pose.
Any others?
Ian Wilson
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