Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: There are also different DRC rules on certain objects on inner layers for some fabs IIRC. And of course, DRC constraints depend on the thickness of the copper layer. This was a big deal with my big project a few weeks ago. Because the top contains fine pitch SMD

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:55:10 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the route style selector? It would look like so: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think. While

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Andrew Poelstra wrote: Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the route style selector? It would look like so: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think. The look is still inconsistent. The buttons are

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: Throwing out a crazy idea.. in word-processors etc.., styles are found in a drop-down combo-box. I know that doesn't fit so well with where we have space for the route-style selector, but just a crazy though. In my humble opinon, the space would be used better by an

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread DJ Delorie
FWIW, I never use the style buttons in lesstif (they're a tear-off menu). I always open the style editor and use that instead - it has buttons to select the style, but *also* tells me what the style is, and lets me tweak it as I go. ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 03:02:51AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Andrew Poelstra wrote: Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the route style selector? It would look like so: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png This gives more clickable area and a

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 20:26 -0700, Russell Dill wrote: Throwing out a crazy idea.. in word-processors etc.., styles are found in a drop-down combo-box. I know that doesn't fit so well with where we have space for the route-style selector, but just a crazy though. One day, when we

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Russell Dill
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 20:26 -0700, Russell Dill wrote: Throwing out a crazy idea.. in word-processors etc.., styles are found in a drop-down combo-box. I know that doesn't fit so well with where we have space for the

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:46:02 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 03:02:51AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Andrew Poelstra wrote: Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the route style selector? It would look like so:

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-02 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 17:35 -0700, Russell Dill wrote: I'll just sit back and wish for auto-route style by net property. Yes, I still think that old wish would be an improvement. One more step from a painting program to real EDA. Having properties/attributes like width, clearance,

gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-01 Thread Andrew Poelstra
Hey all, Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the route style selector? It would look like so: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think. -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-01 Thread Russell Dill
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: Hey all, Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the route style selector? It would look like so: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think.

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:55 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: Hey all, Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the route style selector? It would look like so: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think. I don't

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-01 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:32:44AM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: I don't know, but my personal feeling is that toggle buttons are a PITA, and they don't look that natural in this application. Pretty much for the same reason as we didn't like them in the layer selector - which you've just done

Re: gEDA-user: pcb gtk: Toggle buttons for route styles?

2011-09-01 Thread Russell Dill
Throwing out a crazy idea.. in word-processors etc.., styles are found in a drop-down combo-box. I know that doesn't fit so well with where we have space for the route-style selector, but just a crazy though. One day, when we support an unlimited number of route styles. ;) Yes, 4 hardly