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[Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I have a a few questions for someone more familiar with the code than me.  Mostly about preferences, but also one random question that has me scratching my head, bearing in mind that I’m not a C++ guy.  I’ll start with that one.

Is there a reason that WX_VIEW_CONTROLS coerces it’s aParentPanel argument to its superclass type?  EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL instantiates one of these and passes an instance of itself, but WX_VIEW_CONTROLS coerces it to a wxWindow*.  This means casting is needed to get at the subclass’ public members.   Again, I’m not a C++ guy, but I couldn’t figure out the reason for this.

Another question about the current implementation.  I notice that neither the EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL nor EDA_3D_CANVAS honor the mouse preferences, e.g. middle button panning, and making them do so essentially requires duplicating what is implemented for EDA_DRAW_PANEL.  It seems like these preferences belong somewhere else, like maybe EDA_DRAW_FRAME (or maybe there’s somewhere more appropriate).  I guess my question is whether anyone has done any work in this area or looked at it enough to have an opinion about it.

And finally, a more generic user level question spawned by the above.  Given that kicad is migrating toward a more unified UI via Kiway, is there a story for how preferences will be handled.  Currently, for instance, one has to go to the eeschema preferences and the pcbnew preferences to change the same set of prefs for some things.  Is there a plan to unify this in any way.  Seems like this is complicated by the ability to run the applications standalone, because the above makes perfect sense in that scenario.  If you view these as part of the same application, though, it seems cumbersome.  Just curious.


Thanks,

Garth

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