Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 10:15 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: Another method of drawing attention to a part of the display that could be helpful is a “tunnel vision” effect: fade most of the display, leaving a small area non-faded around the feature of interest. For instance, when Ubuntu pops

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-27 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:49:00PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Speaking of pointer warping: why is the pointer not warped when swapping sides (with TAB for example) ? At least it's not done with the lesstif HID. That's intentional. I strongly disagree with that choice. I'm aware

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-27 Thread DJ Delorie
Then there is an inconsistency: Yup. Feel free to open a bug report about it so we don't forget. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: On a large, crammed full board, where the feature is needed the most, the cross hair is almost invisible in when zoomed out. Highlighted SMD pads does not stand out on their own. They are just too small. You see the great big animated circles homing in on the part?

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:44:29 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: On a large, crammed full board, where the feature is needed the most, the cross hair is almost invisible in when zoomed out. Highlighted SMD pads does not stand out on their own.

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: Another method of drawing attention to a part of the display that could be helpful is a “tunnel vision” effect: fade most of the display, leaving a small area non-faded around the feature of interest. For instance, when Ubuntu pops up a “Administrator Access Required”

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-25 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:15:17AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote on the other list where mere users are not allowed to post: If no-one has any objection, I will remove the code which warps the mouse pointer when selecting nets in the netlist window. Speaking of

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-25 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 09:04 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:15:17AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote on the other list where mere users are not allowed to post: If no-one has any objection, I will remove the code which warps the mouse

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-25 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote in the other mailinglist where mere users are not allowed to post: How about the attached patch? GTK HID, GL implementation only at the moment (GDK renderer won't build with this patch - sorry). Please give it a try... done. It kind of works. On a large, crammed

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-25 Thread DJ Delorie
Speaking of pointer warping: why is the pointer not warped when swapping sides (with TAB for example) ? At least it's not done with the lesstif HID. That's intentional. I'm aware that max XWarpPointer claims that There is seldom any reason for calling this function., but this is the

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-25 Thread DJ Delorie
The idea here is that the board flips around the mouse pointer. Lesstif never flips around the pointer; it always flips around the center of the screen. What you can see before the flip is the same as what you can see afterwards. ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-25 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 02:44 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote in the other mailinglist where mere users are not allowed to post: How about the attached patch? GTK HID, GL implementation only at the moment (GDK renderer won't build with this patch - sorry).

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-25 Thread DJ Delorie
Since it is XOR drawn, that would depend on what colour your board is ;) The problem with XOR is that, for a palette-based screen, you don't know that XOR will give a visible color. Even with truecolor visuals, you have to be careful what you XOR with. Maybe we should bring back the thumbnail

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-24 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote on the other list where mere users are not allowed to post: If no-one has any objection, I will remove the code which warps the mouse pointer when selecting nets in the netlist window. My objection: I use regularily this feature to locate nets. It would be a regression if

Re: gEDA-user: Warp pointer nonesense

2011-07-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 01:15 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote on the other list where mere users are not allowed to post: My objection: I use regularily this feature to locate nets. It would be a regression if it were removed without a replacement. Yes, it is less than