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Re: Grid in GAL canvas

 

On 14.01.2016 20:14, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Carefully, and with a nice Thank You note to whoever chose to use the 
> middle button on those :>

I also find it quite counter-intuitive. We could at least add context
menu with a 'choose color' option.

T.

> 
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>> How do I middle click on OSX (without a non-Apple mouse that has 3 buttons…)?
>>
>>> On 14 Jan 2016, at 20:14, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> middle click?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> How do you change at all?
>>>
>>> In the “Visibles” toolbar with Render=>Grid by clicking on the small button?
>>> <PastedGraphic-2.tiff>
>>>
>>> Nothing happens when I click there… but not only for grid, but also all the other buttons...
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bernhard
>>>
>>>> On 14 Jan 2016, at 20:04, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tom, there's a minor bug with the grid color - I'd fix it myself, but 
>>>> I'm not familiar with the GAL stuff yet and don't want to go breaking 
>>>> anything. When you change the grid color while GAL is active, the grid 
>>>> doesn't refresh until you change the zoom level. I assume fixing that is 
>>>> as simple as sticking a refresh call of some sort in the right place?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:00:32PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>>>>> On 14.01.2016 19:57, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know, I am difficult… :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In GAL canvas grid was almost invisible up to now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With one of the last commit it obviously respects grid color which it
>>>>>> didn’t before… yes, it is very visible now:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bernhard,
>>>>>
>>>>> I fixed this aside fixing another grid-related issue in the GAL canvas.
>>>>> You can use the darkest colors if the grid is too bright :)
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have seen in the code that a “dot” grid (using small rectangles) seems
>>>>>> to be implemented… any special reasons why this is not used?
>>>>> None - just nobody thought about it, until now.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Should this maybe get a configuration option?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Tom
>>>>>
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