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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon
Thanks for your input.

I haven't worked with any B3 sized pc boards, but it is certainly 
possible with KiCad.

If the OpenGL view limits are set to the edges of whatever paper size is 
used, this is useful.

Without paper/board edge limits, a quick accidental brush of the 
trackpad can pan off the edge. With a blank screen, there is no clue as 
to where the drawing went to. Should I pan to the left?, right?, up?, down?.

Limits are useful.

Have fun
Bob G

Simon Wells 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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