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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

The FreeRoute icon should now tells you to put the right jar in the right
place and then it launches Freerouter--the integration is even better than
it was before, because for some reason Freerouter knows where all my files
should go!

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
Wayne and Layne

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:25 PM, David J S Briscoe <
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just been playing with V6132 of PCBNEW. I have a number of small
> observations.
>
> 1/  In the layer manager toolbar the Top and Bottom layer are named
> Composant and Cuivre. Why is this even though I am using English as my
> language?
> 2/ The same words are used for the top and bottom layer in the Track and
> Via properties dialog.
>
> Track highlighting in OpenGL mode.
>
> 1/ When I click on the track highlighting icon the cursor changes to a
> large cross. I can then highlight a track. However if I then try to
> un-highlight the same track I have to
> move the cursor back to the highlight button and unclick it. When I do
> this the board pans uncontrollably off the screen whilst I'm moving the
> cursor towards the highlight button.
> I still can not un-highlight the track. How is a track un-highlighted.
> Surely it would be more intuitive to click on the track once to highlight
> and then again to un-highlight it? How can the panning be turned off or
> controlled?
>
> Why is the Freeroute Icon still available even though the website does not
> work any more? I did click on it but it just provides an opportunity to
> export a .ses file. Maybe the tooltip should be changed to reflect this?
>
> I'll send in a few more observations next week as I start to use the
> latest version more. Thanks.
>
> David.
>
>
>
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