Re: gEDA-user: PCB needs alternate grid

2007-10-24 Thread joe tarantino
On 10/23/07, DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only if snap to pin/pad is selected. Otherwise just snap to the nearest grid point. Well, yeah. Are you saying if we're within one grid spacing of one of the defining points for the pin/pad...? I'm just trying to be sure I understand

Re: gEDA-user: guile update status

2007-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 03:01:29 KURT PETERS wrote: Just wondering what the status is of making geda compatible with guile 1.8.1. Anyone know how close that is to being complete (in git)? kurt As far as I am aware, it is compatible. Please let me know of any problems, and I'll try to

Re: gEDA-user: PCB needs alternate grid

2007-10-24 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:17:34PM -0700, joe tarantino wrote: The crosshair snaps to a grid point or pin center whichever is closer, but it will snap to a grid point or the nearest defining endpoint of a pad. It will not snap to a *pad* center. (I wish it still did :( .) Yeah, that's a

Re: gEDA-user: PCB needs alternate grid

2007-10-24 Thread John Luciani
On 10/23/07, Ben Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm routing some 8/8 busses. I like being on a big grid to snap to pads, but I need to get on a small grid, like 1mil, in order to route traces at the 8/8 spacing. What I really need is either a smarter grid (eg it interacts with the

Re: gEDA-user: PCB needs alternate grid

2007-10-24 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:00:27 -0700, joe tarantino wrote: A subtle point is that the snap to to pins/pads mode used to snap to the center point (midpoint of the line between the two defining points of the pad). Ouups. I was just about to add a feature request. Please add snaping to the middle

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

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

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

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

Re: gEDA-user: PCB needs alternate grid

2007-10-24 Thread joe tarantino
On 10/24/07, Kai-Martin Knaak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:00:27 -0700, joe tarantino wrote: A subtle point is that the snap to to pins/pads mode used to snap to the center point (midpoint of the line between the two defining points of the pad). Ouups. I was just