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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/2013 12:12 PM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 14/10/2013 17:27, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>> I was fixing the Pcbnew block rotate hot key when I discovered that the
>> block rotate command in both Pcbnew and Eeschema (and I'm assuming the
>> component and footprint library editors as well) do not behave the way I
>> thought they did or should.  When a block is selected and either the
>> rotate hot key or context menu is selected, the block rotates at the
>> original selection point and the block command ends.  Shouldn't the
>> block command continue until the user presses the left mouse key to
>> actually place the rotated block?  This makes more sense to me and would
>> allow you to perform more than one rotation during the block command.
>> If no one objects, I'll add it to my list.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
> 
> No objection.
> Just it makes preparing the Undo/Redo command slightly more difficult to
> code.
> 
> Pcbnew rotate has a potential bug relative to the Undo command: in
> preferences the rotation can be adjusted to 45 or 90 degrees.
> for 90 degrees, no problems.
> But for 45 degrees, the undo does not work, because the undo rotate code
> assumes a 90 degrees rotation (the actual rotation angle is not stored).
> 
> 
How do you rotate a block 45° in Pcbnew?  The only command paths I see
are the block context menu rotate command and the rotate hot key both of
which rotate the block 90° clockwise.