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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Vesa Solonen wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>
>
> > It's very simple. If you want to add zoom levels to the PCB programs
> > (cvpcb, gerbview, & pcbnew), add the new zoom values to the PcbZoomList
> > array in pcbnew/classpcb.cpp. To add new zoom values to the schematic
> > editing programs, add the new zoom values to the SchematicZoomList array
> > in eeschema/class_screen.cpp.
>
>
> > Wayne
>
> Thank you! I got that far that I noticed the values were on some list, but 
> where the defines were... Anyway I'll put out a patch if you don't.
>
> -Vesa

Vesa,

Your zoom patch for pcbnew makes the PCBNEW program too slow to use when 
I have a delay in the drawing due to a large number of zones. The zoom 
granularity is too small, and I found on one end we don't need that 
granularity, only on the other end.

Please try out this array for pcbnew and let me know if your feelings 
would be hurt if we used it instead. The problem again is that it takes 
too many steps to zoom in.

I have not tried eeschema. Drawing is faster there, but there could be 
some advantage in making these similar.

for pcbnew/classpcb.cpp:

// Dick's version
static const int PcbZoomList[] = { 5, 8, 12, 18, 27, 40, 60, 90, 140, 
200, 300, 450, 700, 1000, 1500, 2250, 4500, 9000, 20480 };

Try this, it is working well for me.

Many thanks to Wayne for making this possible.


Dick