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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
> Wayne Stambaugh escreveu:
>
> > I just wanted to get some feedback on the current grid setting design.
> > Does it make sense to have both the metric and English grid sizes show
> > up in the grid selection list? Does anyone want to snap to a 0.127mm or
> > a 0.254mm grid. I propose changing the grid list to only show the
> > metric grid sizes when millimeters are selected and English grid sizes
> > when inches are selected. The user grid will always be shown in the
> > current units. I already have it coded up and working and wanted to
> > make sure that there were no objections before I made the commit.
> >
> > Also on a related note, someone changed the last grid setting in pcbnew
> > from the application settings to a project file setting. Is this really
> > where we want to save the last setting? It seems to me that this more
> > of an application setting than a project parameter. If no one objects I
> > will change it back to an application setting. This implementation also
> > saves the command ID of the grid instead of the actual grid size.

Command ID? This is a bug, no?

> > It
> > will break any time someone inserts new commands into the global command
> > ID file before the grid command IDs. I just found that out the hard
> > way. If the consensus is to leave the last grid setting in the project
> > file, this will have to be fixed or it will cause problems in the future.
> >
> > Wayne