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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/22/2012 04:33 PM, lajos kamocsay wrote:
> Hi Dick--
>
>
> Thanks for taking looking at it.
>
> When I worked on this, I looked at the mose wheel + [ctrl | shift]
> behavior, which (at least in my build) was also limited to the scroll
> bar length. I agree with you however that removing that limit would
> work better, I can certainly take a crack at it.

That is not what I tried to describe.

ctrl, shift are uninteresting to me.  You already have a circus going on with the middle
mouse button down and dragging your entire screen around.  Let's not involve ctrl nor shift.

I'm saying honor the scroll bar limits, hard and fast.  When you hit one travel limit, the
mouse must stop in that direction and not become "disconnected" from the screen, because
previously they were moving as a single unit.

Imagine carrying a bottle of milk into the house.  If you hit a door jam with the milk
bottle, you expect your hand to stop at that moment, in that direction.  There can still
be a degree of freedom in the other direction X or Y, up until you hit a second travel
limit in a corner, at which point the mouse pointer moves in neither previous direction.  
Although if you chose to travel back away from the travel limit, one or both, that should
then work fine.  So your mouse position never changes relative to the screen you are
dragging (panning).  The handle on the milk bottle does not move around the milk bottle. 
It is fixed on the milk bottle until you set it down.  (Release the middle mouse button.)

Dick


>
> Thanks-
> -lajos
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> lajos,
>>
>> Just tried the patch.
>>
>> Seems to work well up until you hit a scroll bar travel limit, at which point the pointer
>> slips relative to the dragging drawing.  I found this disconcerting.
>>
>> Is it desirable and easy to make it work such that the pointer freezes its directional
>> travel on the axis or axes which have hit a travel limit?
>>
>> It would be nice to try that mode.  I think that as soon as you put the user in control
>> with the middle mouse button, you have to honor the "attachment" that has been made with
>> the mouse to the drawing during the panning.  If you hit a travel limit, this is no reason
>> to allow the mouse to continue to move.  My first impression was that this was an
>> unnatural response.
>>
>> Think about this.
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/17/2012 09:07 AM, lajos kamocsay wrote:
>>> Hello Dick-
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, totally missed the tab setting in my editor.
>>> Attached is the patch with the tabs removed.
>>>
>>> Note however that the files generated by wxformbuilder do have tabs:
>>>
>>>  eeschema/dialogs/dialog_eeschema_options_base.cpp
>>>  pcbnew/dialogs/dialog_general_options_BoardEditor_base.cpp
>>>
>>> I checked other wxformbuilder files and those have tabs also, so this
>>> is probably ok. If you need me to convert those, let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks-
>>> -lajos
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Thanks lajos.
>>>>
>>>> Someone else is going to have to look at this one.
>>>>
>>>> But please do them a favor before they start:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Fix your tabs, make them 4 spaces.  Tabs are not allowed in KiCad source code.
>>>>
>>>> 2) After fixing, send your patch as an attachment, not inline.
>>>>
>>>> Whoever reviews it may have more to say.
>>>>
>>>> Dick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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