Re: [Kicad-developers] Patch: In eeschema: use unused hotkey 'Backspace' to be equivalent to 'Delete'

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Morgan
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Henner, In EESCHEMA, under Preferences-Hotkeys-Edit Hotkeys, you can edit the hotkeys and set Backspace as the Delete function. However, I notice that changing the Delete function hotkey doesn't work. This

Re: [Kicad-developers] Revisiting the Git decision

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Morgan
There is another option for people who want to use Git: a mirror. There is a mirror under the KiCad user account (the one with all the libraries) on GitHub: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror However, it usually seems to be out of date, and very sporadically updated. For some

Re: [Kicad-developers] Revisiting the Git decision (I come in peace! - with a patch)

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/2/2014 9:16 AM, Mitch Davis wrote: On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Joel Holdsworth j...@airwebreathe.org.uk wrote: discouraged by the friction. Amen. Mitch. Is using Bazaar really enough friction (your

Re: [Kicad-developers] bzr is unmaintained. Should we move KiCAD repository to git too?

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Ouabache Designworks z3qmt...@gmail.com wrote: My experience has been that any code worth writing will long outlive whatever rcs system that you are using. Expect to have to do this on a regular basis John Eaton On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Kaspar

Re: [Kicad-developers] bzr is unmaintained. Should we move KiCAD repository to git too?

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Morgan
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I've been off-list for a while whilst building my house over Christmas. bzr works fine and is what Launchpad hosted projects work with most easily. I don't see anyone wanting to change, especially as

Re: [Kicad-developers] footprint library help needed

2013-11-13 Thread Chris Morgan
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: I hope you had our kicad_src/rules file in your ~/.bazaar/ directory. Otherwise we have a rather large mess on our hands. I don't know that an uncommit works against a push. We will ask that somebody with a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Block rotate behavior.

2013-10-14 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: I was fixing the Pcbnew block rotate hot key when I discovered that the block rotate command in both Pcbnew and Eeschema (and I'm assuming the component and footprint library editors as well) do not behave the way I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Github part footprint filenames

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Morgan
be really odd dynamic layouts generated. I'm not sure if the dynamically generated repository is going to be a big issue on the kicad side or not. Chris On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio l.marcanto...@logossrl.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:03:54PM -0400, Chris Morgan wrote

Re: [Kicad-developers] Github part footprint filenames

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Morgan
-- Because this is a filesystem we can't have more than one footprint in a given directory with a given name. If we wanted to have more than A rule like 'no same named footprint per library' is reasonable. Precedence between libraries is AFAIK one of the reason for the new fp table (I

Re: [Kicad-developers] GITHUB_PLUGIN

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Morgan
On a somewhat related note I'm wondering why KiCad isn't hosted on GitHub. Given the popularity of GitHub it could give the project better visibility and let's not even speak about the ultimate joy of how easy it is to merge pull requests. I find the github site easier to use than the

[Kicad-developers] Github part footprint filenames

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Morgan
Hello. Apparently I was living under a bit of a rock until today when I created a few test footprints with the new 'pretty' file format. I tried to find some documentation about the approach but it seems clear from discussion in the github thread and this testing that the idea is one part

Re: [Kicad-developers] GITHUB_PLUGIN

2013-08-14 Thread Chris Morgan
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo miguelan...@nbee.es wrote: I'm thinking too, I really *love* the idea, and I'm sure that building on the simple idea -later, with time- we can do even more. But a simple github connector it's a great start. I have a piece of code that

Re: [Kicad-developers] GITHUB_PLUGIN

2013-08-14 Thread Chris Morgan
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo miguelan...@nbee.es wrote: 2013/8/14 Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com miguelan...@nbee.es wrote: (please use nbee/nbeepass as credentials) http://kicadhub.com/pcbs/2 http://kicadhub.com/assembly_guides/3 http://kicadhub.com

Re: [Kicad-developers] GITHUB_PLUGIN

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: FYI, In looking at an http plugin for pcbnew, here are my findings so far: It occurred to me that only three class PLUGIN functions seem to be necessary *) IsWriteable() this is one line, return false. *)

Re: [Kicad-developers] GITHUB_PLUGIN

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Andrew Seddon and...@circuithub.com wrote: I just did a quick proof of concept API on the CircuitHub side which gives you an endpoint to hit and get the KiCad export of a footprint. Unfortunately I wrote the exporter in the old format rather than S-Expression

Re: [Kicad-developers] GITHUB_PLUGIN

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: On 08/12/2013 10:22 AM, Chris Morgan wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: FYI, In looking at an http plugin for pcbnew, here are my findings so far: It occurred to me

Re: [Kicad-developers] Online library sharing idea

2013-08-09 Thread Chris Morgan
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Andrew Seddon and...@circuithub.com wrote: I can tell you a few key design decisions we made which might help. - Lib must be cached user side, lack of internet shouldn't stop you designing. Files work fine, you dont need to invent a new protocol. - Footprints

Re: [Kicad-developers] Online library sharing idea

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: On 08/06/2013 06:40 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: Hello. Sites like http://www.kicadlib.org/ are great for sharing libraries but I was thinking that having integrated online library sharing could better distribute the work

Re: [Kicad-developers] Online library sharing idea

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Morgan
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Cirilo Bernardo cirilo_berna...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 9:40 AM Subject: [Kicad

Re: [Kicad-developers] Online library sharing idea

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Morgan
even though none of them seem terribly useful to me at the moment. Maybe some of these sites expose some webservice APIs - Could be a good way to start. On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Sites like http://www.kicadlib.org/ are great for sharing

Re: [Kicad-developers] Online library sharing idea

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Morgan
-offs we made, which might act as a good starting point, and perhaps highlight some of the things that could be done differently (we tried a lot of different stuff). Happy to Skype/Hangout/Phone etc. Cheers On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com wrote: It's good that you

[Kicad-developers] Online library sharing idea

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Morgan
Hello. Sites like http://www.kicadlib.org/ are great for sharing libraries but I was thinking that having integrated online library sharing could better distribute the work while making it easier to share and use parts. A user could add add trusted sources to their remote libraries, contribute

[Kicad-developers] 'R' doesn't rotate a block in pcbnew?

2013-07-13 Thread Chris Morgan
Hello. 'R' rotates parts but doesn't appear to rotate blocks in pcbnew (which would seem handy). By design? Something that I could send a patch or report a bug against? Chris ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to :

[Kicad-developers] pcbnew flipping doesn't flip text across x-axis?

2013-07-04 Thread Chris Morgan
Hello. Today I created a part and flipped it to put it on the back of the board. The pins were correctly flipped across the x-axis but the text labels I put next to the pins were flipped across their own axis instead. Is this expected behavior? Am I doing something I shouldn't do or should I file

[Kicad-developers] Hotkey for moving zone corner?

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Morgan
I searched but couldn't find a hotkey for moving zone edges or a command to do so in the hotkey list. Should I send a patch to add a new hotkey for that? Chris ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to :

Re: [Kicad-developers] Hotkey for moving zone corner?

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Morgan
...@softplc.com wrote: On 06/25/2013 05:32 AM, Chris Morgan wrote: I searched but couldn't find a hotkey for moving zone edges or a command to do so in the hotkey list. Should I send a patch to add a new hotkey for that? Chris I last used zone editing quite some time ago, on a board with over 10

[Kicad-developers] Auto-fill for zones

2013-06-23 Thread Chris Morgan
Hello. I was wondering if/why there isn't a auto-fill option for zones. I'm trying to get the edges of zones to be smooth looking and with fillets its tough to see how the zone might look after filling. Chris ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew hang

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.netwrote: On 6/16/2013 12:44 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: Hi Wayne. I think the difference may be due to where the app was started. It's the same build with debug enabled and installed from the kicad testing repository

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew hang

2013-06-16 Thread Chris Morgan
15, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com mailto:chmor...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. Ill see what I can come up with. Good idea on the recursive symlink. Surprised wx wouldn't handle that situation. Ill try to figure it out this evening. Chris Chris, When you get time

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew hang

2013-06-16 Thread Chris Morgan
/15/2013 8:12 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: Dick turned out to be correct, that was some good insight there. Attached strace to the process and sure enough it is traversing a directory that has symlinks, several of which appear to be pointing back to the same directory. So, the process is making

[Kicad-developers] pcbnew hang

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Morgan
Hello. I'm seeing a pcbnew hang at 100% cpu, but only if I run it via the kicad window. If I start pcbnew from a console window it runs fine. This is with a few day old kicad-testing branch, Kubuntu 13.04 64bit. Here is the stack trace: gdb) bt #0 0x7f7b6a75 in __xstat64 () from

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew hang

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Morgan
Ok. Ill see what I can come up with. Good idea on the recursive symlink. Surprised wx wouldn't handle that situation. Ill try to figure it out this evening. Chris On Jun 15, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: No idea. This is new code. KISYSMOD env var is not used

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew hang

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Morgan
, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. Ill see what I can come up with. Good idea on the recursive symlink. Surprised wx wouldn't handle that situation. Ill try to figure it out this evening. Chris On Jun 15, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: No idea

Re: [Kicad-developers] 'Move' vs. 'drag' user experience justification

2013-06-14 Thread Chris Morgan
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 June 2013 15:24, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts? I'm thinking it would address everyone's concerns, the two types of move could be kept and new users could be helped to know

[Kicad-developers] 'Move' vs. 'drag' user experience justification

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Morgan
Hi. Just got bit by the move vs. drag issue in eeschema where I was moving parts and couldn't figure out why wires weren't sticking. What I couldn't find is the user experience justification for having a separate move vs. drag feature. There are a ton of posts on the Internet about the same

Re: [Kicad-developers] 'Move' vs. 'drag' user experience justification

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Morgan
Hi Dick. For eeschema, in particular, what is the usage case for moving a component without the attached wires/busses? Chris On Thursday, June 13, 2013, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On Jun 13, 2013 5:27 AM, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'chmor...@gmail.com'); wrote

Re: [Kicad-developers] 'Move' vs. 'drag' user experience justification

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Morgan
(input, output etc). I could do a mockup of this particular hint if it would help and also implement the framework for the feature. Chris On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Chris Morgan chmor...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh I see. Maybe kicad could have a teaching mode that could popup a hint dialog

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] - Implement auto panning while moving in EDA_DRAW_PANEL::OnMouseEvent()

2013-06-10 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: Can you test the attached patch: It removes the if( ..) useless test (and perhaps broken) which explains sometimes the panning does not happen. It set the cross hair position before sending the event which uses

Re: [Kicad-developers] fyi extra changes in r4203

2013-06-10 Thread Chris Morgan
changes, generate diff, commit and repeat and then blow away the directory when the feature was done? Chris On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: On 06/09/2013 03:24 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] - Implement auto panning while moving in EDA_DRAW_PANEL::OnMouseEvent()

2013-06-10 Thread Chris Morgan
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: On 06/10/2013 07:37 AM, Chris Morgan wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com mailto:d...@softplc.com wrote: Can you test the attached patch: It removes

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] - Implement auto panning while moving in EDA_DRAW_PANEL::OnMouseEvent()

2013-06-09 Thread Chris Morgan
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Dick Hollenbeck d...@softplc.com wrote: On 06/08/2013 07:08 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: I'm still not sure how to generate patches with bzr. I really want to do 'bzr format-patch -1' like with git but I can't find an equivalent approach

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] - Implement auto panning while moving in EDA_DRAW_PANEL::OnMouseEvent()

2013-06-09 Thread Chris Morgan
I think you have good points. I'll take a look at the more comprehensive fix for the issue. On the point of animating the pan, what are your thoughts? The pan today is very discontinuous looking. Chris On Sunday, June 9, 2013, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 06/09/2013 01:01 PM, Dick Hollenbeck

[Kicad-developers] fyi extra changes in r4203

2013-06-09 Thread Chris Morgan
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing/revision/4203 Spotted the extra changes to HOW_TO_CONTRIBUTE.txt when trying to merge up to the latest kicad here as it caused a conflict. Chris ___ Mailing list:

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] - Implement auto panning while moving in EDA_DRAW_PANEL::OnMouseEvent()

2013-06-08 Thread Chris Morgan
I'm still not sure how to generate patches with bzr. I really want to do 'bzr format-patch -1' like with git but I can't find an equivalent approach. revno: 4196 committer: Chris Morganchmor...@gmail.com branch nick: kicad timestamp: