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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

Thank you very much for the patch. The arc drawing tool looks much
better now, so I decided to push it.

Cheers,
Orson

On 03/14/2017 04:44 PM, John Beard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is something I've bene toying with for a little while: an
> enhanced overlay and construction method for arcs in Pcbnew.
> 
> The flashiest part is the new overlay, which is similar to the ruler
> tool in concept and feel and uses many of the same utility functions.
> 
> New features for the tool are ability to "go back" with backspace and
> snap angles with the Ctrl key.
> 
> It introduces a couple of new classes, which, as members of
> common/preview_items, can theoretically be used from other GAL
> canvases for implementing similar tools.
> 
> I tried to genericise the event loop code, but failed to make it much
> clearer, so I put it back: it's still a custom event loop in
> DRAWING_TOOL::drawArc.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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