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

 

Good to hear, Bob!

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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