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Re: OSX testing of 2016-07-05 BZR 6968

 

As the pcb can be bigger than a4 size i am not sure this it is even a
good idea to try and limit it like that in pcbnew

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The latest OSX nightly has greatly enhanced panning and zoom on both the
> schematic and pcbnew (Legacy and OpenGL)
>
> The panning works with a two finger drag on the trackpad - both up-down and
> left-right work in a very natural way - no meta-keys need to be pressed.
>
> The zoom is smooth without large movements - all initiated with pinch-in and
> pinch-out gestures - very natural for OSX users.
>
> The pan moves up-down and left-right until the paper edge comes into the
> view, then the pan stops - this is great, just exactly as expected.
>
> The only thing noticed that is not quite up to par is the panning in the
> OpenGL view of the pcb. The panning here does not have the paper edge as a
> limit.
>
> Thanks much for the effort to get the OSX trackpad to work intuitively.
>
> Have fun
> Bob G
>
>> Application: kicad
>> Version: (2016-07-05 BZR 6968)-product, release build
>> Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
>>            libcurl/7.43.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.5
>> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 15.5.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
>> - Build Info -
>> wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
>> Boost: 1.57.0
>> Curl: 7.43.0
>> KiCad - Compiler: Clang 7.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
>>         Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
>>                   USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
>>                   KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>                   KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>                   KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>                   USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
>>                   BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>
>
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