(branched from the component table viewer thread)
In my opinion, a schematic with multiple sheets is not like a text
editor with multiple documents. The schematic editor is working on a
single project, and it should be way more common to apply operations
(that might want to be undone) to all schematic sheets, than it is to
apply operations across all files you happen to have open in a text
editor (other than "find in files", of course).
In my experience, other EDA tools work around the "undoing global
changes" issue that JP mentioned in the same way that text editors do
when you replace in multiple files -- they warn the user that the
change cannot be undone, and sometimes leave the files/sheets in an
"unsaved" state so there is actually a way to undo it for certain
files (i.e. by closing them without saving)
-Jon
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Nox <noxfiregalaxy@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:noxfiregalaxy@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I agree with you about the multi file editor behaviour. There it
is natural that the undo/redo works per file. But is this
behaviour also reasonable for a schematic? I just checked the
behaviour of visual studio. There global replacement will be
reverted if the stack is in sync. Else only the active document
is affected. So I guess you are right. We have to first agree
which way redo/undo should work. Personally I would perfere to
move to a "mixed" or global redo/undo.
What do you think: how hard will it be to implement a "container"
undo/redo item which batchs multiple changes (e.g. for component
changes, annotation, etc) and has an ID to check with all open
sheets if the top most change matches. Of course it is
questionable if a "silent" partial undo/redo is the best way to
handle desynced stacks. Or might a global redo/undo will be
easier to maintain? Or should global operations simply always
"break" the local undo/redo stacks (so our "state of the
art"-handling)?
P.S: should we branch the discussion here maybe?
Am 18.04.2017 um 09:12 schrieb jp charras:
Le 17/04/2017 à 22:51, Nox a écrit :
I know that I already suggested that in another context
but what about changing the undo/redo
semantic to the more common approach to maintain an
global undo/redo stack and switch the view
accordingly? I know that the "per screen" is the
established way in kicad and that it is very
dangerous to break existing workflows. But the undo/redo
behaviour is currently hardly
"understandable" for beginners. E.g. why does the undo
not follow my actions but stays on one view?
Why does exporting the netlist break the undo? Why can
automatic annotation not be reverted? The
undo list wiped on a frequently basis that personally i
hardly trust into the undo functionality at
all.
Would it be an option to introduce a "test version" of a
global undo/redo to get some feedback from
the crowed which way would be preferred?
For me, the problem is not to have a global or per screen
undo/redo list, but what an user is
expecting when undoing/redoing a change.
We *always* expect to undo the last change.
Any undo/redo system has this behavior.
Now consider an editor (the schematic editor with 3 sheets
for instance, but this is also the case
of text editors with 3 files opened and currently edited).
1 - in sheet1 you call a tool (component table editor,
automatic annotation) which modify all sheets.
2 - after that you enter sheet2 and make new changes then
sheet3 and also make new changes.
3 - back to sheet1 and try to undelete the latest change in
this sheet: this is the global change
(i.e. annotation). This is possible in sheet1.
But how can you undo this annotation in others sheets: this
is not the latest change and cannot be
undone safely (you can have deleted/replaced/edited a symbol
in other sheets, or deleted a sheet):
what is the actual meaning of "undo the annotation" in other
sheets).
And ultimately:
What a undo (and therefore redo) command must undo:
1 - the latest change in the full schematic (global undo/redo)
or
2 - the latest change in the currently edited (active) sheet
(local undo/redo)
This is a choice, and the answer is for me not trivial.
It could be worth to know what is the option for global/local
changes in a schematic hierarchy in
other schematic editors.
Multi-file text editors can undo the latest change only in
the active file, not in all opened files.
_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
<https://launchpad.net/%7Ekicad-developers>
Post to : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
<https://launchpad.net/%7Ekicad-developers>
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
_______________________________________________
Mailing list:https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
Post to :kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unsubscribe :https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
More help :https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
