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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/30/2019 1:01 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Am 2019-01-30 10:24, schrieb John Beard:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here are a bunch of refactors to fix some issues in the Array tool
>> (including a 5.1.0 issue), as well as putting several things under
>> test. Seems quite a lot has degraded in here, and I fixed a few long
>> standing issues too.
>>
>> 1) Separate generic array geometry and numbering logic out to common.
>> Place under test.
>> 2) Fix lp:1808706 (5.0.1 bug)
>> 3) Fix some control enablements for geometric options that are
>> mistakenly disabled in PCB mode.
>> 4) Allow the array tool to renumber the original pad (e.g. 1 -> A1 for
>> a 2D grid)
>> 5) Fix dialog init values (they are often quite useless, e.g. spacings
>> of 0, 0)
>> 6) Break the widget save/restore logic out to a common class (this
>> logic is not array-specific)
>> 7) Break out a MODULE string function and place under test
>> 8) Break out ref-des utilities and place under test (this exposes the
>> bug in lp:1813669 as expected failures)
>> 9) Actually fix the bug in lp:1813669 (and remove expected failures)
>>
>> This patch set has built on Jenkins MSVC and Msys2, but does require
>> Simon's Boost patch for MSVC.
> 
> 
> This patch set works well for me on Debian Buster/gtk3.  As long as it
> similarly behaves as expected for Mac/MSW, I'd be in favor of merging
> this for 5.1
> 
> 
> -Seth
> 

Everything seems to work on windows as well except I am confused as to
why I cannot edit the radius when creating circular arrays.  Other than
that, I'm fine with merging the patch set for 5.1.  It certainly cleans
up the code base, fixes know issues, and includes some nice unit tests.

Cheers,

Wayne