Hi Peter, > -----Original Message----- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Peter Clifton > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 4:08 PM > To: geda-dev; geda-user > Subject: gEDA-user: Zoom bug on Windows > > I have an idea what might be the root cause of the zoom bug... > > I will take bets that all the locales where this was reported > - Dutch, Finish, German - use "," as a decimal separator > rather than ".". > > The action we execute on zoom is "Zoom(+1.2)" or "Zoom(-1.2)" > which would not work if those numbers were miss-interpreted. > > Perhaps we are failing to set the appropriate LC_NUMERIC (or > equivalent) on Win32. I recall a similar bug in gschem or > gerbv which required us to use "C" not "POSIX" when setting > the locale. > > A quick grep shows: > > src/hid/gtk/gui-top-window.c: setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, > "POSIX"); /* use decimal point instead of comma */ > FAIL ___^ > > > The gschem commit in question was this: > > > commit a78d166a1b57b80ff46e2ac98a14989b8af77c3e > Author: Peter Clifton <pc...@cam.ac.uk> > Date: Tue Jan 19 23:11:36 2010 +0000 > > Set the LC_NUMERIC locale to "C" rather than "POSIX" > > This value is supported on Win32 platforms, whereas > "POSIX" doesn't > appear to have any effect. > > This is required in order to get correct postscript > output in locales > where "," is used as the decimal point separator. It also > affects the > font strings passed to Pango, causing broken text > rendering in gschem. > > Thanks to Cesar for testing this change indeed fixes the issue. > > Tested-by: Cesar Strauss <cestra...@gmail.com> > (cherry picked from commit > 5d130060e694cfd3b3be177f1fae4a576728ff25) > > > A better solution would be to use locale agnostic string > processing routines here. > > > -- > 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!) > Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) >
Nope, pcb-20110916.exe is still not zooming with z/Z or the pull down menu. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
