Good: I like the arrows showing the problem. Wrong location: The reason (i.e. "Annular rings that are too small may erode during etching") belongs in the area that you establish the design rule check guidelines.
Steve Meier On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 16:21 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Hi guys, > > This time the screen-shot eye-candy is purely made in GIMP, sorry.. but > please take a look at it and see if it looks useful... > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/drc_mockup.png > > It is based on a mixture of UI from the Banshee music player, some of my > own ideas for presentation, and the DRC report Ben got from Sierra > (including some stolen text which we can't reuse verbatim!) > > 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). > > Perhaps we could complement this expanded list with an alternative > compact view, where the preview image shrinks to a smaller size (or uses > a generic icon for the given rule), and we drop the detailed explanation > text from each line. > > Any per-rule processing could be done in a few ways: > > * Popup click context menu > * Add checkbox against each rule, then put action buttons at the bottom > - Select all > - Deselect all > - Ignore selected violations > - Highlight selected violations (on layout) > - Auto-fix (right along there with "Auto-design my circuit" ;)) > > If there was too much information per violation, we could adopt a more > "eog" image viewer approach to properties ("similar" to our current > implementation). Make a dialog with all the information, fix > suggestions, actions for a single violation, then put "<< Previous" and > "Next >>" buttons at the bottom. > > > NB: Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to develop these ideas in > terms of code at the moment, so don't expect to see this on my branch > any time soon! > > > Best regards, > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user