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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

attached a patch to add a new feature “touchpad panning”.
When enabled, you can pan in x/y-direction by just using usual 2-finger touchpad gestures without shift/ctrl modifiers instead of scroll wheel zoom.

It is particularly useful on OS X, because any Apple touchpad/mouse supports these 2-finger gestures (1-finger with MagicMouse). 
It makes KiCad behave more like any other regular OS X application and has been requested for some time by some/many OS X users.

It is built on top of platform independent wxWidgets functions, so it should work also on any other platform and device supporting x/y mousewheel events and is not restricted to OS X.

I added preference options to each application like the other pan/zoom options (and a menu entry for 3d-Viewer).
If disabled, panning/scrolling should work the same as without the patch.

I tested it on
* OS X with touchpad, MagicMouse, MightMouse
* OS X with normal PC mouse
* Linux running inside a VirtualBox on OS X (debian testing with xfce desktop)

I would be great if someone could test it on native Windows/Linux with a touchpad.
It should be OK, the only problem that I could imagine is that panning speed might have to be adapted (frequency/granularity of mousewheel events could be different between OS X and other platforms, there are already some platform specific adaptions in the code before the patch).

Of course, any other feedback is also welcome!

Note:
This patch contains the patch discussed in the other mail thread, which disables framerate throttling in GAL on OS X.


Regards,
Bernhard

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