On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 10:33 -0500, John Griessen wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > There isn't a great deal of info on the violation shown, hopefully > > zooming to it obviates the need to take up screen-space with coordinate > > readouts. (I'd imagine a tooltip, or "Details" pane might make a nice > > addition if this was required). > > Arrows are good, but need to be at the scale of the DRC, (tiny when zoomed > out). How about when generating a tooltip, also > cause a 1 inch window that is part of the GUI in a fixed location, or > hovering like a tooltip, to show the arrows plus a little? > > In other words, picturs just as you've shown in a list format, but not all > generated at once, only as needed by a mouse hover?
I was thinking (as I believe DJ suggested a while back), that the arrows could also be overlaid on top of the PCB board as well, so when finding / fixing the DRC, the information could be overlaid. Another possibility is a bold red / orange / whatever colour circle indicating the areas directly on the board (at whatever zoom). I'd make the annotations mouse-over to a pre-light colour (indicating they are "live" controls, then have them "click-to-zoom" right into the violation. It might clash, but some kind of "Press Escape" to zoom back out where I was before could be handy after you've fixed the violation. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user