On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Poelstra <as...@sfu.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: >> >> Am 17.10.2010 um 17:16 schrieb Levente Kovacs: >> >> >I think that is why X11 has its coordinate system as is; and that >> >is why PCB developers went that way. But a CAD tool is not >> >about CRT display or image processing. I think we should >> >change it; it looks very awkward for a new user, who doesn't >> >know the story. >> >> Being a new gEDA user and fairly experienced with other CAD >> applications I can tell I couldn't care less. If one ever has to >> enter or read coordinates manually, there's something incomplete or >> wrong with the GUI. >> > > I disagree. There are situations I can think of in which manually > entering coordinates would be simpler than using a "GUI" method. > > I definitely think we sould flip the coordinate grid, but what > would that do to exiting files? >
Version the file format. Introduce a new PCB_FILE_VERSION. If this is defined in the file then call the appropriate read function, if it is not defined then use the old function. -Phillip _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user