I'm to a point where I'd appreciate some testing and feedback on some
stuff I've been doing to the gtk HID for PCB. I have implemented user
controlled menus. The menus are read from a resource file on startup
just like in the lesstif HID. Instead of looking for "pcb-menu.res",
the gtk HID looks for "gpcb-menu.res" in the same locations. The reason
for a different name is that the organization of the default menus for
the lesstif HID is different than the gtk HID. However, the goal is for
the menu resource files to be compatible. By this I mean you should be
able to do something like
ln -s pcb-menu.res gpcb-menu.res
and have both the lesstif and gtk HID's have the same set of menus and
hotkeys.
One goal I had was to not change much in the way of the menu layout or
hotkeys from what is currently in the CVS HEAD for the gtk hid. Despite
this, I do expect there will be a few minor changes.
One visible change is that all hotkeys are now defined through the
menus. You'll see that under the "Info" menu, there is a "Key bindings"
submenu. That is a "catch-all" place where all of the key bindings that
aren't already assigned to the "normal" menus go. It has the side
effect of providing an online reference.
To try out the new menus, update to the "usermenu" branch.
Do this by either
cvs update -PdA -r usermenu
from your pcb source tree, or check out a new working copy somewhere
else with:
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/pcb login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/pcb co -P
-r usermenu pcb
then
./configure --disable-docs
gmake
cd src
./pcbtest.sh
What I'd specifically like feedback on are:
1) menus/hotkeys which worked in pcb-20070208 with the gtk HID and are
broken now
2) hotkeys which changed from pcb-20070208. I know there were some
minor menu layout changes. If there are behaviour changes though I want
to know.
3) any other wierd behaviour relating to menus or hotkeys that is
different from pcb-20070208.
4) menus/hotkeys which also didn't work in pcb-20070208
Feel free to substitute current cvs head for 20070208.
My goal is to get the usermenu branch up to the same level of
functionality as what was in pcb-20070208 or current cvs head before
merging the branch back to the head. Once the merge is done, I'll try
to address issues from #4 above.
Known issues:
- Mouse section in the resource file is ignored. I need to learn about
how the mouse buttons are handled in the gtk HID currently so I can hook
up that section.
- A fair amount of now obsolete code still exists in gui-top-window.c.
I need to do some major house keeping.
While I don't think this branch has any major instabilities in it, it
should still be treated as alpha quality. So, make backups of any of
your work! You have been warned!
Thanks
-Dan
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