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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

I like to keep rotation angle set to 90 because that covers 98% of cases
and is it's faster to press R two or three times instead of 4 or 6 times (I
frequently go the wrong way around since unfortunately R in pcbnew rotates
ccw and R in eeschema rotates cw, that is something that should be made
consistent). But for the remaining 2% of cases when 45 degree angle is
preferable achieving that angle involves multiple clicks. Layout process
(at least for me) is very iterative and I often need to try multiple
positions of footprints to get best results. Going back and forth between
45 and 90 angle setting gets old fast.

If adding 2 new default shortcuts is not ideal maybe there is a way to have
these as actions with no shortcuts and let the user choose if they want to
use them and assign any shortcut they want. Is that technically supported
with current hotkey framework?

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:15 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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