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Le 01/04/2011 16:08, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit :
> I was thinking this ugly workaround was working.
> > > But you are right, there are many zoom values that do not work (I did not noticed these values).
> > >
> > > I'll work on it these newt days.
> > > If you find a better fix before I find a working workaround, please commit it.
> > Require a wxWidgets version that works?  Seems especially do-able on MS
> > Windows, where the builder person can pick what wxWidgets version to compile
> > (the *required* version.)
> >
> > So based on my limited information, a path to success on MS Windows is to
> > fix what else is wrong with wxWidgets 2.9.x, and get THIS zoom fix for free.
> >
> > Since the MS Windows builder person has to compile the wxWidgets library, it
> > can be patched before compiling quite easily, as a means of fixing the other
> > issues.
> >
> > My $ 0.02
>
>
> If it were easy to do a static link of Kicad to a debug build of the
> wxWidgets library, then:
>
>
> If so, a person could step into the library from Kicad and maybe see what's
> up with the floating point comma issue.  That seems like a patch or fix that
> needs to happen in any case.
>
>
>
> Dick

Dick,
Your fix is the best fix found until now.
So I switch to wxWidgets 2.9.1 (wxWidgets 2.9.2 is expected soon)) at least under Windows.
For me, wxWidgets 2.9.1 works fine.

About the decimal separator:
- Happens  only with Gerbview and Pcbnew
  (but Gerbview uses floating numbers only to display coordinates)
- With Pcbnew the problem is just due to the fact ReturnValueFromString()
  used to convert strings to floating numbers accepts a point or a comma, when the separator is a comma
  but not a comma when the separator is a point (this is a normal behavior, no a bug).
  But the issue arises when the separator changes while using Pcbnew, because users were using a comma in dialogs,
  but suddenly they cannot.
 (for instance they use a comma (or a point) to enter a dimension in Pcbnew,
  but if they open and close Modedit, they must uses only a point, inside the same dialog).

  But it can be fixed (workaround) if comma and point are both always accepted.


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