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["Martin d'Allens" <martin.dallens@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the patch needs improvements to show the current shortcut if
"space" was changed.

Another little improvement that may be useful is to show the local
coordinates origin with some kind of crosshair.

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:12 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>
>
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> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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