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Re: Getting Trackpad Support in before feature freeze?

 

I normally just do a 
  bzr merge lp:~gcorral/kicad/osx-trackpad-gestures
into the current head I am building and that’s it…


Regards
Bernhard

> On 24 Feb 2015, at 19:56, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> As far as the wx patch goes, I don't have any issues with that.  We have
> other OSX specific wxWidgets patches so I don't see why one more would
> hurt.  However, the kicad patch must be thoroughly tested on Linux and
> Windows to make sure the default behavior is not changed for mouse wheel
> zooming and panning and any track pad behavior is not broken.  Has
> anyone tested this?  Is there a patch that I can apply against the
> latest product branch so I can do some testing and make sure the patch
> makes sense?
> 
> On 2/24/2015 1:22 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>> Bernhard, that is a good point.  If Wayne et al are reluctant to patch
>> wx for pinch-to-zoom, we can pull in just the panning changes.
>> 
>> I have had Nick test on Linux--I seem to remember he said there wasn't
>> an impact to him, but I am not sure if the changes are too subtle to notice.
>> 
>> Basically, at this point I am shining the Waynelight up into the
>> clouds.  Wayne--what do you need to make the call on this?  A branch to
>> make a build on your own tree?  A quick summary of how it impacts non-OS X?
>> 
>> Adam Wolf
>> Cofounder and Engineer
>> W&L
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier
>> <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hi,
>> 
>>    would be really great.
>>    I use it since Garth provided his branch and merge it regularly into
>>    my builds.
>>    Currently I only use the panning part, because you still have to
>>    patch wxWidgets for the pinch-to-zoom.
>> 
>>    I didn’t see any showstopper on my MacBook (TouchPad) and my desktop
>>    (Mighty and Magic Mouse).
>>    So, in my opinion question is only about non-OSX impacts.
>> 
>>    Wrt to pinch-to-zoom there seem to be changes in wxWidgets trunk.
>>    I don’t know if we would like to patch until it has completely
>>    landed (wxWidgets needs to be patched anyway for OS X), or just wait
>>    with that until it has arrived in official versions.
>> 
>> 
>>    Regards,
>>    Bernhard
>> 
>>>    On 24 Feb 2015, at 18:25, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx
>>>    <mailto:bobgus@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    I locally merged Garth's code a week or so ago and had
>>>    difficulties - don't know if it was his files, my dependencies, or
>>>    something else. Attached is the log of my merge - it was against
>>>    r5431 and shows the names of the merged files.
>>> 
>>>    One of my problems was that after I built KiCad,  after awhile it
>>>    did not respond to clicks on the red go-way button (top left of
>>>    window). I had to Force Quit.
>>> 
>>>    FWIW
>>>    Bob G
>>> 
>>>    On 02/24/2015 10:30 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
>>>>    Super!!!
>>>> 
>>>>    I can do testing as needed. I have magic mouse and MacAir with
>>>>    trackpad - running 10.10.2
>>>>    Bob G
>>>> 
>>>>    On 02/24/2015 09:51 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>>>>    Hi folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Can we start a discussion on if it would be appropriate to get
>>>>>    Garth's trackpad support in before the feature freeze?  If it is
>>>>>    possible, what needs to be done, and who can do it?
>>>>> 
>>>>>    (Please, folks, this is not a thread for bug reports or
>>>>>    debugging builds.  If we're going to have any chance to get this
>>>>>    in, it'll be a focussed effort!)
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Adam Wolf
>>>>>    Cofounder and Engineer
>>>>>    Wayne and Layne, LLC
>>>>> 
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