Hi all, Long time mailing list reader, very occasional poster here (-: I've been using geda for schematic capture, BOM preparation, and pcb layout for about 4 years now and have made lots of great boards with it! Anyhow, on to the main part of my post...
Am I wrong, or are the increase/decrease grid/line/drill increment options no longer functional in PCB? In the preferences dialog, one can set these increments in mil/mm units depending on the layout's units, and previously the keystrokes such as 's', 'shift-s', 'alt-s', 'shift-alt-s' would increment or decrement line/text/hole/via sizes by the amount set in the preferences. Nowadays, the 's', 'shift-s', etc, keys will do whatever is set up in your (g)pcb-menu.res file, which by default is to apply an increment/ decrement of 5 mils. However, the preferences to modify these increments remain, but are ignored since the increment amount is hard- coded in the (g)pcb-menu.res file. In the latest git source, the global variables for increment amounts appear to be still maintained properly throughout the app, they just are never applied. This is something I would definitely be willing to address in the code if anyone else thinks that it's an issue. One solution that came to mind is adding a new action or actions to PCB that would increment/ decrement line/via/drill sizes by whatever the global increment amount is set to. Then this action could then go in the default (g)pcb- menu.res file for the 's', 'shift-s', etc keys so that these increment keys could work as in older versions. Or another solution is to remove the increment/decrement amounts from the preferences dialog, and then if people like using different increment sizes, they can use the command entry box, or edit their (g)pcb-menu.res file. Anyone's thoughts on this? Best regards, - Alex _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
