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Re: GAL canvas strategy - testers needed!

 

> -Click+dragging on a symbol starts a selection rectangle instead of moving the symbol

Scratch this one. It's the same behavoir as in the current nightly. 


> On Sep 7, 2018, at 5:36 PM, dann <danngreen1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Nice!
> 
> Here’s a few things I found on OSX 10.13.6, Retina iMac:
> 
> -Click+dragging on a symbol starts a selection rectangle instead of moving the symbol
> 
> -With the schematic and PCB windows open at the same time, clicking a footprint on the PCB makes the schematic jump and zoom, but it doesn’t always put the selected component in view. Often the entire schematic is zoomed out and/or panned off-screen. It seems to be inconsistent, that is, it doesn’t always pan and zoom to the same place when clicking on the same component.
> 
> -Likewise, I have to double-click a symbol in eeschema to have it highlight in the PCB window. This opens up the Symbol Properties dialog box as well. Single clicking seems to have no effect.
> 
> -When changing the anti-aliasing mode, immediately after closing the Preferences window, the schematic pane goes solid blue for a moment. The toolbars stay normal, just the center pane turns blue.
> 
> -Toggling the “Use touchpad to Pan” setting has no effect until Eeschema is closed and re-opened.
> 
> -Junctions are drawn underneath components. Not sure if this is good or bad, just different from the non-GAL version.
> 
> -I get this Debug Alert when I use the wire tool. It happens whenever I end a wire segment by double-clicking:
> 
> /Users/design/src/kicad-mac-builder/build/kicad/src/kicad/common/dlist.cpp(104): assert "item->GetList() == &aList" failed in append().
> Call stack:
> [00] SCH_SCREEN::Append(DLIST<SCH_ITEM>&)    	sch_screen.h:16
> [01] SCH_BASE_FRAME::AddToScreen(DLIST<SCH_ITEM>&) 	sch_base_frame.cpp:57
> [02] SCH_EDIT_FRAME::EndSegment()            	bus-wire-junction.cpp:32
> [03] SCH_EDIT_FRAME::OnLeftDClick(wxDC*, wxPoint const&) 	onleftclick.cpp:45
> [04] SCH_DRAW_PANEL::OnMouseEvent(wxMouseEvent&) 	sch_draw_panel.cpp:30
> [05] wxEvtHandler::SearchDynamicEventTable(wxEvent&) 
> [06] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventLocally(wxEvent&) 
> [07] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent(wxEvent&)    
> [08] wxEvtHandler::ProcessPendingEvents()    
> [09] wxAppConsoleBase::ProcessPendingEvents() 
> [10] wxCFEventLoop::OSXCommonModeObserverCallBack(__CFRunLoopObserver*, int, void*) 
> [11] __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ 
> [12] __CFRunLoopDoObservers                  
> [13] __CFRunLoopRun                          
> [14] CFRunLoopRunSpecific                    
> [15] RunCurrentEventLoopInMode               
> [16] ReceiveNextEventCommon                  
> [17] _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter 
> [18] _DPSNextEvent                           
> [19] -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] 
> [20] -[NSApplication run]                    
> Do you want to stop the program?
> You can also choose [Cancel] to suppress further warnings.
> 
> Hope that helps! Really happy to see this come along
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> 
> 
>> On Sep 6, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> On 06/09/18 17:37, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> Hi Tom,
>>> 
>>> I have committed the completion of the block rotate and mirror fixes (including for LibEdit).
>> 
>> Hi Jeff,
>> 
>> Thanks, I played with eeschema for a short while and I really appreciate
>> all the work you have done!
>> 
>> Dear devs (non-devs too ;-) - whoever is interested in testing this
>> branch, please compile this and send the feedback here:
>> 
>> https://git.launchpad.net/~jeyjey/kicad/log/?h=tom-eeschema-gal-aug27
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
>> 
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