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

 

Makes sense to me.

On 11/21/19 5:10 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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