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Re: DRC markers and small(ish) screens

 

Cool.

I might fix it just for me after 5.0.

I’ll kick around for something higher-priority for now.

Cheers,
Jeff


> On 20 Jan 2018, at 16:31, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> We have an unwritten policy about not spending precious development time
> fixing small display issues.  This is a never ending issue because users
> seem to think that we should support their 800X600 display resolution
> forever.  If you feel the need to fix it and it doesn't break the
> behavior for users with modern resolution displays and/or multiple
> displays, by all means fix it.  I just don't want us to get hung up on
> resolving small display issues.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 1/18/2018 6:31 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> I fixed updating the PCB canvas behind the DRC dialog on OSX[1], but it’s still not much use if you have a small-ish screen: when you click on markers they get centred behind the dialog.
>> 
>> I was thinking of adding a bit of code which finds the largest rect of the PCB canvas exposed from behind the dialog and centres the marker in that.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1606849
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