On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 22:26 +0900, Torsten Wagner wrote: > Dear Community,
> E.g., move around some footprints in pcb and keep pressing "O" to see > how the rats nets comes up. After reading the upcoming pop-up which > informs " X rat lines remaining" are placed and press Close for the > 30th time it is simply annoying. Urm... yes. I tend to give up and leave it open, behind my main PCB window - but it is a pain indeed. There are probably a few other examples too. Perhaps we could add another button "Hide". "Hide" could have the current behaviour, where the dialog pops back up. "Close" would close the window for good - until it was explicitly requested again. (This would probably have to be backed by some persistent storage of log-messages whilst the window is closed). > Other programs use a fixed status bar or even more mature a status > terminal. > This little window resist at the bottom of the main window and prints > all kind of messages from gschem ore resp. pcb the user might like to > read. Since it keeps a history of the messages a user can simply > scroll up and down to see what happens. > Normally 3-5 lines of text are enough to show an experienced user what > is going on with the program. He can execute function over function > ignoring the upcoming text in the terminal without getting distracted > by message boxes and only if something went wrong he can check the > terminal output. Furthermore, some highlighting (e.g. errors appear > red) and some search facility make it easy to spot whether there is > any error. Not a bad idea - although I don't typically want the log anyway - so the status window would seal screen-space I otherwise don't loose. > This terminal could be extend for input as well, allowing easy > scripting which I miss in pcb at the moment. (E.g. I like to type > functions like "m 12000 14000" to move the marked object to the > coordinates 12000,14000). That is often requested - and probably not "that" hard to implement. If you have the right options in File->Preferences set, "General", then un-tick "Use a separate window for command entry". Pressing ":" gets you a command entry in the status-bar area of the app. I think the advantage of having the command entry as a separate window, is that there is a "Help" button which lists some common actions. Probably we should make that accessible with the status-bar version too. Run "pcb --show-actions" for a simple text list. It is probably also dumped somewhere into the generated documentation. "/usr/share/doc/pcb/pcb.pdf" ? Syntax like you quoted is not possible, but there are probably more long-winded equivalents. > I would be happy to hear what you think about such a feature. Not a bad idea - just one which will require someone motivated to implement it. (In a way which is portable to PCB's lesstif HID as well as the GTK one). Btw.. with your no-frills WM etc.., you "might" get along better with PCB's "lesstif" GUI. (No GL there yet, sorry) ./configure ..... --with-gui=lesstif IIRC. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
