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Re: [PATCH] Eeschema: simulator: use dotted traces for current and phase.

 

I can add the simulator to the scope of effort to do the whole settings
files upgrade for 6.0

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 5:06 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> On 11/21/19 1:15 PM, Kymatica wrote:
> > Sure, I can make it configurable. Where should this setting be
> available? In the main preferences? (Perhaps a new Simulator section there?)
>
> I would think the simulator will over time have enough user (not
> simulation control) configuration settings that it would have it's own
> preferences dialog and that the settings would be saved in a separate
> configuration file.  I think at the moment the config settings are saved
> in the eeschema config file.
>
> >
> > /Jonatan
> >
> >> 21 nov. 2019 kl. 18:26 skrev Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >> Hi Jonatan,
> >>
> >> I just tested this and it seems to work as expected although I'm
> >> thinking it might be a good idea to make this a configuration option
> >> rather than the only behavior.  Users might not find this desirable.
> >> Anyone else have any thoughts on this?  For future reference, when you
> >> are going to make behavioral changes to KiCad, please ping the dev
> >> mailing list first for feedback.  I would have made the option
> >> suggestion before you began coding.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >>
> >>> On 11/19/19 11:30 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> >>> This patch makes it easier to visually keep apart traces for current
> >>> vs voltage and phase vs magnitude, by using dotted line style for
> >>> current and phase traces.
> >>>
> >>> To get the dotted style drawn correctly, I had to switch from drawing
> >>> each trace line segment individually to creating an array and then
> >>> using DrawLines() on it, so that the whole trace is one continuous
> >>> line.
> >>>
> >>>
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