My guess is that users would expect to be able to edit it as a rectangle after they drew it as a rectangle. Although I'm not opposed to using a rectangle drawing helper.
On 12/23/2015 9:21 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > If we called it a "helper" or something, would it be reasonable to have > it just create the lines and arcs at creation time and not keep them linked? > > Adam Wolf > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Adam, > > The easiest solution would be to create a rectangle drawing tool in the > GAL canvas. We already support lines and arcs which should be adequate > for representing the rectangle in the board file. The only bad thing > about this approach is that there is no way of knowing that a given set > of lines and/or arcs was drawn as a rectangle. That would require a > change in the file format which would be a lot more involved. I suppose > you could do some math and logical testing to see if any group of lines > and/or arcs form a rectangle for editing but that could be rather > tricky. > > Wayne > > On 12/21/2015 9:41 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Let's say I wanted to add a rectangle drawer, or even a rounded > > rectangle drawer, to KiCad, and get it accepted. > > > > For me, this would be purely for Edges. > > > > Any ideas on how I'd best go about this? > > > > Adam Wolf > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
