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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

...why would I make some special entry box for this? What's wrong with what
I've already done?
On Apr 11, 2016 2:18 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 10:37:43AM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Anyone mind if I go through and fix the "in 0.1 degrees" units that are
> all
> > over pcbnew? I don't see any reason why we can't let the user enter unit
> > degrees with a decimal point.
>
> Probably stems for avoiding floats around the code, which is a good
> idea... we sometime went thru horrible linear algebra things to avoid
> trigonometric code and the resulting rounding issues.
>
> If you really want to fix it I'd suggest to make a derivative entry box
> that handles it and returns the value in decidegrees. Look how the
> current 'mils/inch/mm' entry box does it to centralize the
> conversion/check.
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> CZ Srl - Parma
>
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