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[Pierre Parent <pierre.parent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I worked a few month ago on a feature concerning trace length tunning.See This branch[1] , this bug 
repport[2], this youtube video[3].

Several people have been contacting me to tell me that it is very useful and I should keep working on it, so 
that it can be integrated in mainline.

So I'm going to spend  a few days on it. I will correct bugs, make code cleaner. But one of the thing I think 
should be done is port this to openGL mode. The thing is I don't know at all how it works. Here is what I 
need to do:

*Do something when the mouse is clicked and my toolkit is selected.
*Do something when the mouse moves and my toolkit is selected.
*Draw temporary lines of given width on the screen.
*Redraw everything, but only the real things (traces, pads ect), not temporary lines.
*Prompt a window in order to have the user input a value.

Do you have advices/hints on how to do that? (so that I don't loose too much time searching).

Do you see any other thing I should do so that it can be integrated in product branch?

Also I think CERN said they would work on length matching. Could you tell me more so that we don't work 
on 2 concurrent solutions?

Thank's in advance.

Pierre.

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[1] https://code.launchpad.net/%7Epierre-parent-k/kicad/length-tunning
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/594089
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaBwm5anfYk