-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/27/2014 04:00 AM, Garth Corral wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I have a a few questions for someone more familiar with the code > than me. Mostly about preferences, but also one random question > that has me scratching my head, bearing in mind that I’m not a C++ > guy. I’ll start with that one. > > Is there a reason that WX_VIEW_CONTROLS coerces it’s aParentPanel > argument to its superclass type? EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL instantiates > one of these and passes an instance of itself, but WX_VIEW_CONTROLS > coerces it to a wxWindow*. This means casting is needed to get at > the subclass’ public members. Again, I’m not a C++ guy, but I > couldn’t figure out the reason for this.
Hi Garth, WX_VIEW_CONTROLS was written to work with any generic wxWindow. There is no casting to EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL as it uses only functions offered by wxWindow class. > Another question about the current implementation. I notice that > neither the EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL nor EDA_3D_CANVAS honor the mouse > preferences, e.g. middle button panning, and making them do so > essentially requires duplicating what is implemented for > EDA_DRAW_PANEL. It seems like these preferences belong somewhere > else, like maybe EDA_DRAW_FRAME (or maybe there’s somewhere more > appropriate). I guess my question is whether anyone has done any > work in this area or looked at it enough to have an opinion about > it. It would be better if it was unified and specified in only one place. At first sight, EDA_DRAW_FRAME seems like a good candidate, but only for preferences that are common to every panel. Another solution would be to provide a class that stores common preferences (e.g. EDA_PREFERENCES) and then other classes that extend it to provide settings specific to an application (e.g. EDA_PREFERENCES_PCBNEW). I hope that one day we will use GAL exclusively, and the problem of separate settings will disappear. Regards, Orson > And finally, a more generic user level question spawned by the > above. Given that kicad is migrating toward a more unified UI via > Kiway, is there a story for how preferences will be handled. > Currently, for instance, one has to go to the eeschema preferences > and the pcbnew preferences to change the same set of prefs for some > things. Is there a plan to unify this in any way. Seems like this > is complicated by the ability to run the applications standalone, > because the above makes perfect sense in that scenario. If you > view these as part of the same application, though, it seems > cumbersome. Just curious. > > > Thanks, > > Garth > > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : > [email protected] Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUTgXhAAoJEBRwGu1hpbJ1TJYIAKcZuXwkhgjqKvjKwvu2tHNr oiGyPO63fPmx29aBAz1AUHz8NhdgD88nq4Sn9LdmKJ10AsyKxlxKPuqShgUS2LSH c40wS+vQP2/CP0WalHf3xrkkE5Ye9I/dZ0tRn3xOf6ANCNL9UppmsUDwAG1GI5tt dJWCzqahcWDIvOyOu6Oln+n2woibUOoJE50+2O69QvBNSC/z63I4O2Hsl6j/cxqX fhhRZrcqk2lgghff8nc3m1JrVPxJ5elY97cug47DVLdg/yZHVq5NtVeSKX8b9IH3 YIvZ2VKx715BLL2cbkIjoF8tdnzOeYYLxBr6iSXNo+jG3F1OHZD6VvdvhzH5Eng= =B2t8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
