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Re: Getting Trackpad Support in before feature freeze?
Sorry for being so silent, folks. I'll try to send a summary later tonight with my take on these changes and the impediments to getting them in.
Garth
> On Feb 24, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> True, but it is quite some time ago, although not a first
> announcement. I have not seen if any new changes has been made after
> that. Also the patch adds an alternative pan/zoom mode, and still has
> the old style (almost unaffected). In the old mode, I think he swapped
> the actions of the ctrl+scroll and shift+scroll buttons. That is all
> as I understand it for the old mode.
>
> The new mode addes better trimming for those wierdass-magic input
> devices and thereby gives an option for people who like default
> horizontal and verticall scroll is panning.
>
> 2015-02-24 20:13 GMT+01:00 Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> The Waynelight worked! :)
>>
>> I believe there is a minor change to scrolling behavior on all platforms.
>> Garth has the details. I am not sure if it's something we care about--I
>> need to go back and re-read the details.
>>
>> Nick has merged this into a linux build, and used it there, and didn't have
>> any disastrous issues in what he did.
>>
>> Adam Wolf
>> Cofounder and Engineer
>> W&L
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier
>> <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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