The mouse buttons now being pcb-menu.res action choices is truly fine.
Here are a couple of ideas I had:
1. What if already started commands could be modified by user selectable
mouse button functions?
I can see a nice usage for placing vias:
Choose via tool the usual way. Now PCB is ready to act on a left button down
event. In comes a scroll wheel event. Now PCB suspends polling the mouse
for an instant, and reponding to the new event, changes the
value of ViaDrillingHole up a mil for the up button, or down a mil for
the down button.
But, what about ViaSize? How could a mouse button up/down modifier trigger
scrolling up or down in a lookup table of defined pairs of commands like
desirable ViaDrillingHole and ViaSize combinations? Sounds like a
Scheme/guile/lisp function...
2. What if I could launch two commands with one key? (I think I can..)
An example that seems useful during footprint creation, and sometimes
when fixing up power vias, is to execute pairs like
ChangeDrillSize(SelectedVias, 34,mil) and
ChangeSize(SelectedVias,78,mil)
with one key.
This line from pcb-menu.res suggests two commands to a key is already there:
{"Lines -10 mil" ChangeSize(SelectedLines,-10,mil)
ChangeSize(SelectedArcs,-10,mil)}
I'll try others written that way snd see what happens.
John Griessen
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