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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,
this ruler (caliper icon) does look really good. Is there anyway to have it
available in the 2D/3D viewer when a footprint is chosen (inside the
library browser)?

It is often a good idea to have a way to measure footprint size.

cheers
Fabrizio



On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Perfect, the measurement tool is already included in the master branch.
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Orson
>
> On 03/10/2017 03:07 PM, John Beard wrote:
> > Hi Orson,
> >
> > That patch looks fine. Sorry about the formatting/copyright header.
> > You are right for the by-ref and the const.
> >
> > "Measure distance" sounds fine to me.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Maciej Sumiński
> > <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> All I can say is: it looks really cool! I would like to merge, but
> >> before I do so, would you consider the attached fixup patch? If so, I
> >> simply update the existing set of patches and merge everything.
> >>
> >> Changes:
> >> - Changed std::vector<> to const std::vector<>& in
> >> PREVIEW::SetConstantGlyphHeight()
> >>
> >> - One of the new files had Tom as the copyright holder and incorrect
> >> date, changed to "(c) 2017 KiCad Developers"
> >>
> >> - Changed "Measure between two points" to "Measure distance between two
> >> points". I am not a native English speaker, so I need your advice here.
> >>
> >> - A few code formatting fixes.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Orson
> >>
> >> On 03/10/2017 12:18 PM, John Beard wrote:
> >>> Hi Nick,
> >>>
> >>> That's because the label formatting just uses a fixed 2 DP display for
> >>> mm (it uses 4 for inches, and 1 for degrees). It's not a perfect
> >>> solution, but it does line up nicely when the labels are on the left
> >>> of the line. Stripping trailing zeroes would make it ragged when you
> >>> zoom in a bit and get "1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2".
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>> It certainly looks quite nice. I have not yet tested the patch, but I
> >>>> wonder why it shall show the integer labels here with decimals behind
> >>>> it when they are all zero?
> >>>>
> >>>> 2017-03-09 18:18 GMT+01:00 John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>> By the way, here's a screenshot of the ruler tool:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> John
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:11 AM, John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Here's a tool I'm had on my list for a while - a ruler tool.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This patch set introduces a new directory, for "preview items" which
> >>>>>> are EDA_ITEMS that are only used for transient previews, such as
> >>>>>> drawing aids and selection boxes. These are located in common, so
> that
> >>>>>> they can (in theory) be used in any GAL canvas, not just
> >>>>>> Pcbnew/Modedit.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> There are also some functions that hopefully will be useful for
> other
> >>>>>> preview items in future in the utils file.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> There's an oustanding bug with the OpenGL GAL in that it cannot draw
> >>>>>> spaces in text, so there are a couple of places where it
> pre-emptively
> >>>>>> strips spaces that should be removed when that bug is fixed.
> >>>>>> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1668455).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> John
> >>>>>
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