Re: [Kicad-developers] Various pcbnew usability bugs/annoyances

2014-12-29 Thread Tim Hutt
I've also noticed that zooming with the mouse wheel has a weird acceleration in the opengl canvas. Works properly in the default one. On 29 Dec 2014 06:43, "Andy Peters" wrote: > OK, I am back to actually using Kicad for a design. I am on BZR 5337 on OS > X 10.9.5. In no particular order: > > a)

Re: [Kicad-developers] Novena created an Altium->Kicad converter

2014-12-09 Thread Tim Hutt
It's quite a pain to get perl on Windows, and adding another dependency makes building and distributing it more of a pain. You could maybe use perlcc to convert it to C, but a manual line-by-line conversion would be much better. Not difficult, just tedious. On 9 December 2014 at 07:22, Lorenzo Mar

Re: [Kicad-developers] Incremental build speeds.

2014-10-23 Thread Tim Hutt
. Just for development where you have to recompile a lot. I'll try the cmake trick first though. 15s down to 1s is very good! I'm not familiar with cmake - please could you tell me (roughly) how to persuade it? Cheers, Tim On 22 Oct 2014 22:15, "Martijn Kuipers" wrote: > Tim, &g

[Kicad-developers] Kicad-winbuilder fails.

2014-10-22 Thread Tim Hutt
Hi, I have previously used kicad-winbuilder successfully, but I just tried it again (in a fresh directory) and get the error below. I tried it in a much shorter path too and it still fails (and it worked with that path before so I'm pretty sure it's not the path). Anyone have any ideas? Cheers,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Incremental build speeds.

2014-10-22 Thread Tim Hutt
oment so I will maybe have a go at changing it to a dynamic one. I might also try porting to QBS (Qt's new build system) which is much faster than make in my experience. Cheers, Tim On 22 October 2014 14:40, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 22.10.2014 15:01, Tim Hutt wrote: > >>

[Kicad-developers] Incremental build speeds.

2014-10-22 Thread Tim Hutt
Hi, I'm trying to do some kicad development on windows. I initially downloaded & built it with kicad-winbuilder which went without a hitch. Kicad runs fine. However, if I perform a null-rebuild (i.e. I don't change anything and just run `make` again), it takes about 70 seconds to run. That's quit

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] proposal of adjusted netlist dialog

2014-10-22 Thread Tim Hutt
Or you could add another button to the toolbar which always bypasses the dialog. (And add it to the menu too! I don't know why so many actions are toolbar-only in kicad.) On 22 October 2014 12:43, Sergey A. Borshch wrote: > Sorry, I've lost first message in topic from Mark, so I paste my one as

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Rename instances of "module" to "footprint" for consistency

2014-10-08 Thread Tim Hutt
This is fantastic. It is one of the more confusing (and easy to fix!) things about Kicad. I did a small survey of data sheets when a while ago to see what they call them. There was some variety but footprint was the most popular. I can't remember exactly but it was definitely used in more than 50%

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

2014-09-11 Thread Tim Hutt
On 10 September 2014 22:25, Javier Serrano wrote: > Assuming I have correctly understood what you mean (English is not my > native language) I'd have to disagree with it. All the opinions I have read > here seem to me as coming from people who are genuinely convinced of what > they are saying. Ev

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

2014-09-10 Thread Tim Hutt
On 10 September 2014 20:57, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 06:54:13PM +0100, Tim Hutt wrote: > > > 1. Good software has a manual. Great software doesn't need one. > > OK, then try set correctly some FPGA timing constraint without reading > the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

2014-09-10 Thread Tim Hutt
On 10 September 2014 20:48, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 9/10/2014 1:54 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: > > On 10 September 2014 10:25, Javier Serrano > > > <mailto:javier.serrano.par...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > There is a big difference between commercial pr

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

2014-09-10 Thread Tim Hutt
> Nick > > > 2014-09-10 19:59 GMT+02:00 Tim Hutt : > >> It's fine to like weird UI options of course, and I would never consider >> removing the option, but I still think they should be off by default. If >> you (whoever is in charge!) absolutely insist that they

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

2014-09-10 Thread Tim Hutt
To be honest I have got used to the mouse warping in DesignSpark, but I think it is Stockholm syndrome! On 10 September 2014 18:14, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:46:07AM -0700, Ouabache Designworks wrote: > > Case in point you mentioned that warp to center on zoom was "

Re: [Kicad-developers] Usability test.

2014-09-10 Thread Tim Hutt
It's fine to like weird UI options of course, and I would never consider removing the option, but I still think they should be off by default. If you (whoever is in charge!) absolutely insist that they are on by default then a Chrome-style info bar like this is pretty much essential IMO (shown when

[Kicad-developers] Usability test.

2014-09-09 Thread Tim Hutt
Hi, I've been looking for a good free EDA software for ages, and currently use Designspark PCB, which is freeware but not open source (although the only limitation is an unobtrusive RS splash advert on startup). It is ok though - and orders of magnitude better than Eagle. I tried gEDA years ago an