Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Josef Wolf wrote: > With this work flow, you'd have as much (or even more) mouse clicks > as without the tool. So what's the point of using the tool if you > have _more_ work with it than without it? I don't seem to have have more work than without it. Benefits: You can zoom way out and still b

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-07 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:12:03 +0200 Josef Wolf wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > I have recently started to like the gschem Magnetic Net mode, now that > > I learned to use Ctrl-click to put explicit intermediate points in the > > lines instead of just cl

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-07 Thread Dan Roganti
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:44 PM, John Doty <[1]j...@noqsi.com> wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Josef Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange usability behavior with gschem 1.6.2.20110115 (the version > that comes with ubuntu-11.04). I have attached a small schematic to

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-07 Thread Josef Wolf
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:59:39 +0200 > Josef Wolf wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > > IMHO, this works against user expectation. After all, the whole > > > > point of the circle is t

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-06 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:59:39 +0200 Josef Wolf wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > > IMHO, this works against user expectation. After all, the whole > > > point of the circle is to signal the user where the connection > > > would be done. Connecting to any

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-06 Thread Josef Wolf
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > > So this feature can save at most one click? > > It provides a means to reliably hit that tiny spot of a pin point, > while zoomed out. But it prevents me from drawing the connection and connects to total

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Josef Wolf wrote: > So this feature can save at most one click? It provides a means to reliably hit that tiny spot of a pin point, while zoomed out. The feature is "magnetic-mode". it is not "auto-complete". > At the expense of using the undo functionality fairly often? Well, I can't recall

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-05 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 04:44:32PM -0600, John Doty wrote: > To deactivate it, you can put the line: > > (magnetic-net-mode "disabled") > > in your project's gschemrc or in ~/.gEDA/gschemrc. Thanks John! Works great! ___ geda-user mailing list geda-u

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-05 Thread John Doty
On Sep 4, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Josef Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange usability behavior with gschem 1.6.2.20110115 (the version > that comes with ubuntu-11.04). I have attached a small schematic to > illustrate the problem. > > In the attached schmatic, when I try to draw a net from U6-p

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-05 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 11:23:54PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > > In the attached schmatic, when I try to draw a net from U6-pin27 to > > the gate of Q6, a little circle appears on the nearest pin, > > indicating where the connection would be "autocompleted" to. But even

Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Josef Wolf wrote: > In the attached schmatic, when I try to draw a net from U6-pin27 to > the gate of Q6, a little circle appears on the nearest pin, > indicating where the connection would be "autocompleted" to. But even > if the circle appears at the gate of Q6, at the moment I click to > make t

gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

2011-09-04 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, I have a strange usability behavior with gschem 1.6.2.20110115 (the version that comes with ubuntu-11.04). I have attached a small schematic to illustrate the problem. In the attached schmatic, when I try to draw a net from U6-pin27 to the gate of Q6, a little circle appears on the nearest