← Back to team overview

kicad-developers team mailing list archive

Re: [PATCH] Right click option to change layer and render color

 

I retract it, apparently the same problem occurs without your patch applied.

On 09/22/2017 05:39 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> Hi Seppe,
> 
> There is still one issue: the context menu works correctly if you right
> click on a layer label, but if you do the same on a swatch box, then
> menu immediately disappears. The only way to keep it open is to hold
> right mouse button.
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 
> On 09/22/2017 03:12 PM, Seppe Stas wrote:
>> Hey Wayne
>>
>> I fixed the coding policy violations. I blame my text-editor's trailing
>> whitespace detector being broken all of a sudden
>> <https://github.com/SublimeText/TrailingSpaces/issues/121> and the spaces
>> thing being weird XD.
>>
>> The updated patches are attached to this mail. Let me know if you find any
>> other issues.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Seppe
>>
>> 2017-09-22 13:35 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> Seppe,
>>>
>>> Please fix your coding policy[1] violations.  I saw some missing spaces
>>> between brackets and function call arguments along with some trailing
>>> white space.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_
>>> development_coding-style-policy.html
>>>
>>> On 9/22/2017 5:21 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>>>> Hi Seppe,
>>>>
>>>> This is a very good idea. I would have merged the patch, but you need to
>>>> implement GERBER_LAYER_WIDGET::OnLayerRightClick(), as in the current
>>>> state the code does not compile.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Orson
>>>>
>>>> On 09/21/2017 06:25 PM, Seppe Stas wrote:
>>>>> This patch makes it possible to change the color of layers and render
>>>>> options using the right click menu. See attached picture:
>>>>> [image: Inline afbeelding 1]
>>>>>
>>>>> The motivation for this is the current "double left click / middle
>>> click"
>>>>> being somewhat obscure. I've been using KiCad for over 2 years and
>>> recently
>>>>> found out about the double click method by looking at KiCad's source
>>> code
>>>>> (I stumbled on the middle mouse button method earlier). At one point I
>>> even
>>>>> borrowed a mouse from my colleague to change layer colors when I needed
>>> to
>>>>> open a 6 layer board since I typically use a trackpad without a middle
>>>>> mouse button. My colleagues, most of whom have been using KiCad for
>>> longer
>>>>> than me, didn't even know changing the layer/render color is possible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Being able to change properties of a selected item using the right mouse
>>>>> button is a lot more common in modern GUI applications and is more
>>>>> consistent with how the rest of pcbnew works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings
>>>>> Seppe Stas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 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
> 


Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


Follow ups

References