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[Chris Morgan <chmorgan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
>
> On 06/11/2013 02:11 AM, Chris Morgan wrote:
>
>> - Is the rewrite by CERN going to cause all of this dragging/moving code
>> to be rewritten?
>>
>
> Yes. In the future it is going to be implemented using tool framework (if
> you want to know more details, you may have a look at
> http://www.ohwr.org/projects/**cern-kicad/wiki/WorkPackages#**
> 5-Tool-framework<http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/WorkPackages#5-Tool-framework>).
> Currently dragged items are XORed on every move. GAL allows to draw them
> using a different method - usage of layers made it possible to display
> items in a more natural way (ie. one on the top of another with blending
> colors).
> Right now, I am still working on the View component (point 3 on the list),
> but hopefully I will have it finished by the first weekend of July. Then,
> the next thing would be the tool framework.
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Maciej Sumiński
> CERN BE-CO-HT
> e-mail: maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx
> phone: +41 22 767 2251
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Ahh. Dick, maybe it makes sense to wait until this work is done and simply
feed the idea forward to Maciej for the rework, rather than doing the work
twice. The current pan mode is usable.

Chris