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 pc...@cam.ac.uk 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

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

2010-06-10 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

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 pc...@cam.ac.uk 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

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.

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

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 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 icon that is

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 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

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

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 k...@familieknaak.de 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

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 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 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 k...@familieknaak.de 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,

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 they

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

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

2010-06-07 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-Schlüssel:

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 stop, too?

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) (

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 at the