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[Duane Johnson <duane.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perfect, this would have helped my past self immensely :)

Thanks.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Martin d'Allens <martin.dallens@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I think that the current ruler feature works great. Unfortunately
> people don't discover it easily.
> There are frequent questions on the user forum that we just answer by
> mentioning the space hotkey and how it works.
>
> Here is a patch that could solve this problem:
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/compare/master...Caerbannog:master.patch
> The patch needs improvements to show the current shortcut if "space"
> was changed.
>
> The idea is to show a hint about the space shortcut instead of the DX
> DY values until the key has been pressed.
> There is no disadvantage since the DX and DY values will be redundant
> with the X and Y until the key has been pressed.
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Эльдар Хайруллин
> <eldar.khayrullin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello. I think he want to see additional fields with delta_x and delta_y
> > (and maybe distance) relative of latest start point of drawing graphic
> > primitive (like line) but he doesn't want to reset the user origin.
> >
> >
> > Вторник, 10 мая 2016, 17:25 +03:00 от Wayne Stambaugh
> > <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >
> > I don't like the idea of a "smart" origin either. When I set the user
> > origin, it's typically to place multiple objects on a given x or y
> > coordinate. I don't want kicad thinking it's smarter than I am and
> > reset the user origin relative to where I started drawing some object.
> > To me that would be more annoying than useful.
> >
> > On 5/10/2016 10:19 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >> Because that's only useful once in the entire session using pcbnew. Once
> >> you've
> >> set an origin once you can't use that anymore. What's the point?
> >>
> >> I quite like the simplicity of the tool as it is. It's a ruler that you
> >> can
> >> move around. Why do you need a ruler that's smart and picks itself up
> once
> >> in a
> >> while? That just seems confusing.
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:15:52AM -0600, Duane Johnson wrote:
> >>> I can see how this is useful once you know to press space bar. But what
> >>> if
> >>> it assumes an implicit origin in the following case:
> >>> - no explicit origin has been set
> >>> - the user is drawing a shape
> >>> On May 10, 2016 12:39 AM, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/en/pcbnew.html#_displaying_cursor_coordinates
> >>>>
> >>>> 2016-05-09 22:44 GMT+02:00 Collin Anderson <metacollin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>> Hit space bar, it will set the origin for dx and dy. It's useful for
> >>>> seeing where the cursor is relative to the most recent 'origin' set
> with
> >>>> the spacebar. I use it all the time :).
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On May 9, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Duane Johnson <duane.johnson@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> When I create a rectangle, or line, I frequently want to know what
> the
> >>>> size of the rectangle is (width and height). I would have assumed
> that's
> >>>> what "dx" and "dy" in the footer/status bar are for; however, it seems
> >>>> like
> >>>> in all cases, they simply reflect the same values as "X" and "Y". Am I
> >>>> missing something, or is this something to be fixed?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>> Duane
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> > Эльдар Хайруллин
> > eldar.khayrullin@xxxxxxx
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