Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:27 +0200, Levente Kovacs wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:38:16 +0100 > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons > > Hi Peter, > > > This feature is cool. Thank you for implementing it. > > I found that it makes a funny thing

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-10 Thread Armin Faltl
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The use of the right mouse button to get back one level in handler hierarchy is very convenient for me. It's a feature I learned to love with QCad The concept of a hierarchy of tools is one of the aspects I explicitly dislike with qcad. It is a pain to constantly

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:20:47 -0400, Jim wrote: > Thanks, that'll help a lot if they do change default behavior. I added this and some notes on shortcut customisation to the wiki. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover,

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-09 Thread Jim
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:51:10 -0400, Jim wrote: Oh, please make that change configurable without recompiling! It is already configurable without recompiling. This is how: 1) locate the file gpcb-menu.res on your box. 2) copy the file to $HOME/.pcb 3) edit to y

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-09 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:56:42 +0200, Armin Faltl wrote: > No popup please ack. A horizontal menu would be better -- No need to move the mouse to some place in the middle of the screen. > - have the sub-tools replace the coarser tool box and change back No wholesale replacement of tools on the

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-09 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:35:55 +0200, Armin Faltl wrote: > kai-martin knaak wrote: >> Back in 1999 Microstation by Bentley did it this way: >> >> left click = do the default action >> >> right-click-drag = a horizontal menu with several icons representing >> different modes of the tool appears. The

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-09 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:51:10 -0400, Jim wrote: > Oh, please make that change configurable without recompiling! It is already configurable without recompiling. This is how: 1) locate the file gpcb-menu.res on your box. 2) copy the file to $HOME/.pcb 3) edit to your needs, save 4) on start-up, pcb

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-09 Thread Armin Faltl
Peter Clifton wrote: Perhaps a click on the polygon tool ought to expand with a pop-up with sub-variants of the tool to choose from? No popup please - have the sub-tools replace the coarser tool box and change back with a click on the "BACK" button or right-click somewhere in the app. (for l

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-09 Thread Armin Faltl
kai-martin knaak wrote: Back in 1999 Microstation by Bentley did it this way: left click = do the default action right-click-drag = a horizontal menu with several icons representing different modes of the tool appears. The icon that is highlicghted on mouse button release is executed. rig

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-09 Thread Levente Kovacs
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:38:16 +0100 Peter Clifton wrote: > git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons Hi Peter, This feature is cool. Thank you for implementing it. I found that it makes a funny thing when you move a cutout corner outside the polygon. I wish we could define pads

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread kai-martin knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: > I think you might be on my "local_customisation_before_pours" branch, > rather than my "before_pours" branch. I thought I did "git reset --hard origin/before_pours". But may be not. I just fetched, did a reset and compiled at home and did not get the changed zoom behavior

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread kai-martin knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:34 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > Scroll as scroll makes sense to me. IMHO, the simplest shortcuts should be mapped to the most frequently used actions. In an editor, or on a web page I hardly zoom. So it makes sense to map it to some modifier-s

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:49 -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 09:25:44PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > I think you might be on my "local_customisation_before_pours" branch, > > rather than my "before_pours" branch. > > If your public repository is also your working copy, u

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 09:25:44PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > > I think you might be on my "local_customisation_before_pours" branch, > rather than my "before_pours" branch. If your public repository is also your working copy, users who clone it will start on whatever branch you are in when th

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:34 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:46:12 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak > wrote: > > > * You moved zoom to [ctrl-wheel]. I know, that this is in line with the > > way other major gnome applications like inkscape handle zoom. However, > > gschem and g

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 12:46 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > * You moved zoom to [ctrl-wheel]. I know, that this is in line with the > way other major gnome applications like inkscape handle zoom. However, > gschem and gerbv zoom with no modifier by default. I'd strongly vote for > a consistent

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Jim
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:10:57 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: This is a file format bump, but remains backward compatible with old layouts. I get multiple warnings "unknown flag `polygonholemode'" if I open a new file with the old pcb. I assume, these are benign.

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:46:12 + (UTC), Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > * You moved zoom to [ctrl-wheel]. I know, that this is in line with the > way other major gnome applications like inkscape handle zoom. However, > gschem and gerbv zoom with no modifier by default. I'd strongly vote for > a con

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:10:57 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: >> This is a file format bump, but remains backward compatible with old >> layouts. I get multiple warnings "unknown flag `polygonholemode'" if I open a new file with the old pcb. I assume, these are benign. > I've now rebased my usual b

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 00:57 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > A subsequent commit also introduced a GUI tool for creating holes in > > polygons. Standard editing tools such as insert / move / remove point > > work on the holes too. > > Great! > Does this apply to solder

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-07 Thread kai-martin knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: > A subsequent commit also introduced a GUI tool for creating holes in > polygons. Standard editing tools such as insert / move / remove point > work on the holes too. Great! Does this apply to solder stop, too? --<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüs

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 00:38 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > As subject.. > > This is a file format bump, but remains backward compatible with old > layouts. I've now rebased my usual branches on top of this (mainly required work for the "pour" object branches), however repo.or.cz seems to be down a

gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Clifton
As subject.. This is a file format bump, but remains backward compatible with old layouts. >From the commit message: The file-format addition is as follows. Previously, a polygon would be specified as a series of coordinates, such as: Layer(1 "component") ( Polygon("cl