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Re: GAL canvas strategy - testers needed!

 

Hi John,

The line is definitely in the R_POT symbol (at least in the Device
symbol library) so it's possible that it is a gal bug.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 9/18/2018 10:10 AM, John Beard 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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