gEDA-user: PCB woes

2007-10-24 Thread John Coppens
Hello all.

I don't want to sound unappreciative of all the work put into gEDA a
particularly in PCB, I do appreciate it.

Only, I wonder if someone uses the latest PCB (20070912) and it works for
him/her? There are a lot of issues with cursor movements etc, which make
it basically unusable. I've tried CVS, but it responds the same. I filed
a bug against PCB, but, appart from a confirmation from another user
reporting the same, I had no reaction to the report. (bugs 1796016 and
1796012 - though the last bug hasn't reappeared yet).

I've started to try and analyze how the program works, but it is somewhat
beyond my programming skills... Still, I'll have another go. Maybe someone
can indicate where to start looking?

Thanks,
John


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Re: gEDA-user: PCB woes

2007-10-24 Thread DJ Delorie

[sent too soon]

 I filed a bug against PCB, but, appart from a confirmation from
 another user reporting the same, I had no reaction to the
 report. (bugs 1796016 and 1796012 - though the last bug hasn't
 reappeared yet).

I hope everyone realizes that there are very few pcb developers.
Three or four active ones at the moment, I think.  And none of them
are Gtk experts.

If anyone knows of a Gtk expert might be interested in working on PCB,
*please* invite them to do so.

 I've started to try and analyze how the program works, but it is
 somewhat beyond my programming skills... Still, I'll have another
 go. Maybe someone can indicate where to start looking?

Both your bugs are gtk-specific, so the files in src/hid/gtk/ are to
blame.

One thing to try is, whenever you get something that seems GUI
related, try the other gui (./configure --with-gui=lesstif).  That's
completely different code, and I actively maintain that one.  If it
acts differently, you know the problem is in the src/hid/* code.  If
it acts the same, the problem is in the src/* code.


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Re: gEDA-user: PCB woes

2007-10-24 Thread DJ Delorie

 Only, I wonder if someone uses the latest PCB (20070912) and it
 works for him/her? There are a lot of issues with cursor movements
 etc, which make it basically unusable. I've tried CVS, but it
 responds the same. I filed a bug against PCB, but, appart from a
 confirmation from another user reporting the same, I had no reaction
 to the report. (bugs 1796016 and 1796012 - though the last bug
 hasn't reappeared yet).

I hope everyone realizes that there are very few pcb developers.
Three or four active ones at the moment, I think.  And none of them
are Gtk experts.

 I've started to try and analyze how the program works, but it is
 somewhat beyond my programming skills... Still, I'll have another
 go. Maybe someone can indicate where to start looking?

Both your bugs are gtk-specific, so the files in src/hid/gtk/ are to
blame.


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Re: gEDA-user: PCB woes

2007-10-24 Thread DJ Delorie

 Far from being an expert, I did some programming in GTK... I'll try to
 identify where the problem is... and look at the patches from Peter too.

Thanks!

 The two GUIs do cause some confusion, as the manual says, eg.,
 right-click on the component to convert to element... No popup appears
 in GTK. And some other bits.

Neither do.  The documentation is VERY old, and one of the things on
my long-term to-do list.


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