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Re: Various pcbnew usability bugs/annoyances

 

I've also noticed that zooming with the mouse wheel has a weird
acceleration in the opengl canvas. Works properly in the default one.
On 29 Dec 2014 06:43, "Andy Peters" <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK, I am back to actually using Kicad for a design. I am on BZR 5337 on OS
> X 10.9.5. In no particular order:
>
> a) In default canvas mode, using V to drop a via and switch to the other
> layer in the layer pair works as expected. In the OpenGL canvas, V
> (sometimes) drops the via but doesn't switch to the other layer.
>
> b) In the OpenGL canvas, mouse scroll wheel zooms and pans "rationally,"
> by which I mean it zooms in and out smoothly without changing the center
> about which it zooms. In the default canvas, the zooming in and out pans
> the display in an unusable manner, regardless of the setting of "Do not
> center and warp cursor on zoom."
>
> c) Trace clearance is never shown in the OpenGL canvas, regardless of the
> setting of the "Show Tracks Clearance" preference. It works as expected in
> the default canvas.
>
> d) The jump-to-matching-selected feature (click a part in the PCB and the
> schematic zooms to that part, and click a part in the schematic and the PCB
> zooms to that part) works fine in the default canvas and is totally broken
> for the OpenGL canvas.
>
> These are the main issues I've come across so far.
>
> -a
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