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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Reece,

Could you open a merge request for this branch?  You can mark it as
WIP by putting "WIP: " in the beginning of the title.

Doing so will allow people to review it more easily (even if it's not done)

Thanks,
Jon

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:21 PM Reece R. Pollack <reece@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/3/20 9:22 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > Hi Reece-
> >
> > I think I mentioned back then that I'm happy to help with the
> > implementation.  The offer remains if you are interested.
> >
> > It is easy enough to overload with a pure virtual function in the base
> > class.  The derived classes can override (not overload) the virtual
> > functions that apply to each.  So pcbnew gets one viable function
> > signature and eeschema gets the other.  Misusing this gets an error in
> > compiling, which keeps errors from creeping down to the user.
> >
> > One aspect of dynamic_cast that is sometimes overlooked is that casts
> > to the base class are optimized out by the compiler.  I think that
> > might save your implementation (if I understand your intention correctly)
> >
> > Best-
> > Seth
> >
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> I think it'd be great if you'd participate in the discussions of this
> feature. As far as I'm concerned, the more input I get the better.
>
> Last year I tried posting patches periodically for people to comment on
> as my development progressed but I didn't get a lot of response. This
> time I've created a GitLab repo which might make it easier for folk to
> see what I'm doing in context:
>
> https://gitlab.com/RRPollack/kicad/-/tree/rrp-5.99-origin-transform
>
> Note that this is a rewrite -- not a port -- of last year's work, though
> the user interface is intended to be the same. I've pushed the first
> phase of changes, which implement the Pcbnew status line and the dialogs
> that use the UNIT_BINDER class. It all compiles cleanly. The parts I've
> tested work fine but I have to remember how to get to some of the
> dialogs. The code needs some clean-up, especially in the Doxygen
> support, and there's some development spew to the console so I can
> verify the conversions taking place are appropriate.
>
> Conspicuously missing is the settings panel that allows easy
> configuration; I just haven't gotten to it yet. To change to use the Aux
> origin and flip the Y axis (my normal configuration) add these lines to
> the pcbnew.json "pcb_display" section:
>
>      "origin_invert_x_axis": false,
>      "origin_invert_y_axis": true,
>      "origin_mode": 1,
>
> Also missing is support for GetMsgPanelInfo, GetSelectMenuText, and DRC
> markers. All in good time!
>
> It'd be nice to get some feedback before I get too far down the road.
>
> -Reece
>
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