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Re: GAL canvas strategy - testers needed!

 

I bet this is a difference in behavior in GAL, I had to deal with this a
bunch for the GerbView port.  GAL vs. legacy handles the last point in a
polyline/polygon differently although I'm not at my code and so I can't
remember which way the difference goes.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:08 AM John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The rendering of unclosed polyline in symbols is different in GAL.
>
> See the attached (standard libs potentiometer symbol) - in the legacy
> canvas, the arrow doesn't have a missing lower side.
>
> Is this a bug in GAL, or is it actually intended and the symbol is
> wrong (but happened to work before by accident)?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:35 AM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There’s a setting for that (Always show crosshairs).  You probably have
> it on in Pcbnew/Display Options but not in Eeschema/Display Options.
> >
> > > On 18 Sep 2018, at 00:30, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know if this is intentional or not but I noticed (at least on
> > > windows) that the cursor is no longer displayed when the select tool is
> > > active.  This is different than the old canvas where the cursor always
> > > tracked the mouse point for all tools.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > > On 9/17/2018 7:21 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> > >> I pushed fixes for sheet pins and the cursor.  (It also removes a
> bunch of legacy grid and cursor colour stuff that is no longer needed.)
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Jeff.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> On 17 Sep 2018, at 20:03, mdoesbur@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I don't think I mailed the list, but also found another issue.
> > >>>
> > >>> I noticed the sheet text is the same color as "notes", and not "sheet
> > >>> label".
> > >>>
> > >>> The cursor cross-hair is always black.
> > >>>
> > >>> Otherwise it works fine for me on a quick test.
> > >>>
> > >>> regards,
> > >>>
> > >>> Mark.
> > >>
> > >>
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