Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Andrew Poelstra wrote: I'm not sure what to do about them. Right now I have a giant table of default/max/min for all these units, which totals 12 values per unit. Times ten currently-supported units, this is 120 values! I'd be ok with some standard set of grid stops which gets coarser the

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: Maybe we can store the grids in user preferences instead, but that's potentially a fair bit of work. Regardless of implementation difficulty, user preferences are NOT the place to store grid configurations, since each layout will surely have its own grid setup

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:09:13AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: There is already some information in user preference that should really be configurabel on a per project base. Skipping through the file: grid-units-mm = 1 This will turn into grid-units = mm I was quite frustrated to

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 08:30:43PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: These too will be changed as we move away from a strict mm/mil configuration. I'm not sure what to do about them. Right now I have a giant table of default/max/min for all these units, which totals 12 values per unit. Times

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Great. As an astronomer, I really need to be able to define my PCB in astronomical units and parsecs :-) A while back, I had jokingly suggested supporting attoparsecs... ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:55:02 +0200 Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 08:30:43PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: These too will be changed as we move away from a strict mm/mil configuration. I'm not sure what to do about them. Right now I have a giant table

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:30:43 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:09:13AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: There is already some information in user preference that should really be configurabel on a per project base. Skipping through the file:

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:05:56 -0700 Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:55:02 +0200 Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: Great. As an astronomer, I really need to be able to define my PCB in astronomical units and parsecs :-) You'll have to wait for 64-bit

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-13 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 01:56:23PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Great. As an astronomer, I really need to be able to define my PCB in astronomical units and parsecs :-) A while back, I had jokingly suggested supporting attoparsecs... And why we are at it, get rid of the 1/2 oz and similar

gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-12 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:52:38 -0700 Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com wrote: While I really would like the advanced user-defined grids as in the recent patch, at least fixing this will help. Often I want to measure something in mils as I am laying out components on a metric grid. So I click

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-12 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:48:38AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: To follow up on this, the bug with the new patch is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/724154 also see the geda-user mailing list thread titled “Please test new grids for GTK PCB” started 24 Feb 2011:

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
Grids could be stored as top-level attributes... Attribute(grid:... ); ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-12 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:06:02 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:48:38AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: To follow up on this, the bug with the new patch is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/724154 also see the geda-user mailing list thread titled

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-12 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:06:02 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: Maybe we can store the grids in user preferences instead, but that's potentially a fair bit of work. Regardless of implementation difficulty, user preferences are NOT the place to store grid configurations, since each

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-12 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:06:02 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:48:38AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: To follow up on this, the bug with the new patch is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/724154 also see the geda-user mailing list thread titled

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch ?

2011-07-12 Thread DJ Delorie
The current file format already supports Attribute() Sent by R2-D2 astromech droid -Original message- From: Vanessa Ezekowitz vanessaezekow...@gmail.com To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Sent: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 21:48:32 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid

Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

2011-07-12 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:47:39PM -0400, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: Why not add the Attribute() item as DJ suggested, but put it at the top somewhere, inside a comment? Versions of PCB that don't understand it would simply ignore it. Move it out of commented out status when that major file