Re: gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-22 Thread joeft
Ben Jackson wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:32:57AM -0700, joe tarantino wrote: On 10/20/07, Ben Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) If you move a line or its endpoint: For purposes of rubberbanding, it is considered connected to all of the line segments whose ends overlap the

Re: gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-22 Thread Ben Jackson
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:11:04AM -0700, joeft wrote: Ben Jackson wrote: New illustration A-BC-DEF, where B=C, D=E and B,C,D,E overlap The more explicit illustration helps... I agree. Either it should drag D with segment EF (my preference; it is simpler and more

Re: gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:26:49PM +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:16:23 -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: File a SF bug and point me at it and I'll see about fixing it. done. (ID 1816572) Looking forward to fix for this crippling non-feature, There are a few things going

Re: gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-20 Thread joe tarantino
On 10/20/07, Ben Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:26:49PM +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:16:23 -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: File a SF bug and point me at it and I'll see about fixing it. done. (ID 1816572) Looking forward to fix for

Re: gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-20 Thread Ben Jackson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:32:57AM -0700, joe tarantino wrote: On 10/20/07, Ben Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) If you move a line or its endpoint: For purposes of rubberbanding, it is considered connected to all of the line segments whose ends overlap the moving line's end(s).

gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Rubber band mode is (still) much too sloppy about the decision which segment endpoints to move. Imagine a short segment between longer ones like I constantly get because of the metric/imperial nuisance. Thes almost never rubber move in a decent way. Suppose a track looks like this: _ 1

Re: gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-17 Thread joeft
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Rubber band mode is (still) much too sloppy about the decision which segment endpoints to move. Imagine a short segment between longer ones like I constantly get because of the metric/imperial nuisance. Thes almost never rubber move in a decent way. Suppose a track

Re: gEDA-user: sloppy rupper band mode

2007-10-17 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:26:23PM -0700, joeft wrote: Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: However, rubber band mode almost invariably chooses a third mode: c) All three segments stretch. This results in /|\ / | \ / | \ / | \ /1 2| 3\ This is rarely a useful transform. As