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Re: What are dx and dy?

 

Le 11/05/2016 à 00:25, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> Ooh, I like! I'll test and merge this tonight if nobody else complains. I have
> no problem with showing a hint when no origin has been set.
> 
> Note for the future, use _() instead of wxT() to make a string that can be
> translated - and a couple bits don't follow the defined coding style. I'll just
> fix it myself this time though, NBD :)

About the hint, [space] is not always the right hotkey, because it is editable by the hotkey editor.


> 
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:16:51AM +0200, Martin d'Allens 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.
>>



-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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