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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

I'm not sure why you need a half step rotation when you can just change
the rotation angle to 45°.  I'm not opposed to this change but given
that we are running out of hotkeys, I don't know if this is the best use
of them.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 6/9/2019 8:40 PM, Andrew Lutsenko wrote:
> I could replace diff pair dimensions shortcut with something else if
> that is fine by devs, Ctrl+Shift+I is available.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 3:49 AM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx
> <mailto:Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Just a note, the hotkey ctrl+shift+R is already assigned to
>     "Differential Pair Dimensions" by default so this would introduce a
>     duplicate hotkey conflict. It probably makes sense for this action
>     to be ctrl+shift+R, but that means that the other needs to be changed.
> 
>     Also, as a side note to the lead devs, is it still necessary to have
>     the hotkeys say (Modern Toolset only) in the master branch?
> 
>     -Ian
> 
>     On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 8:22 AM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi all,
> 
>         I frequently find that I need to rotate a footprint or a few by
>         45 degrees. To do that I either have to edit it's properties
>         (works if it's just one but slow) or change pcbnew preferences
>         (very slow).
>         I thought I'd add a quick shortcut to rotate selected items by
>         half of the configured rotation angle and learn a bit of tool
>         related code in the process. Please see attached patch for that.
> 
>         I suspect the way I handled passing double parameter to the
>         action is not ideal but it's impossible to have a pointer to
>         constant literal without storing it in a variable (to my
>         knowledge). I'm open to suggestions on how to clean up that
>         part, maybe move the constants somewhere?
> 
>         Regards,
>         Andrew
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