Hi Bob, In trunk/nightlies there is an option to have 2 finger pan instead of zoom with pinch-to-zoom. Which makes the behaviour much better on osx touchpads, While the speed of the zoom is annoying in stable i don't think it will be backported into stable
Simon On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Bob Gustafson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam > > I downloaded and installed both the kicad and kicad-extras. > > I opened kicad and it found the files I had been working on last. In the > schematic view, I see that the two finger motion is linked to the zoom. If I > hold the shift key down, the two finger drag works to move the schematic > around in an intuitive manner (for me at least). Both up/down and sideways > works fine - with limits when the edge of the paper shows on the screen. > Thumbs up on all counts (except maybe the requirement for holding down the > shift key). > > When I hold down the Command key, the two finger drag drives the image > sideways, but in a direction opposite to the two finger drag. > > The zoom out - stops at a postage stamp size. Maybe this limit is too far.. > Zoom in stops at a reasonable point - label text is almost an inch high. > > ---- > > Going to the pcb view, both default and openGl views link the two finger > drag to the zoom. The maximum limit of the zoom makes text numbers about one > foot wide. It is difficult to figure out where I am on a pad - the pad is > several windows wide. The smaller limit is postage stamp size for a page. > > It seems that the trackpad to scroll/zoom is too sensitive. A one tick > movement of the two fingers will move/zoom the image quite a way. > > Holding the shift key down converts the two finger drag to an up/down and > sideways scroll on the default view, but on the openGL view, shift limits > the scroll to up/down and Command limits the scroll to sideways. Not all > that desirable as well as being inconsistent with the schematic motions. > > ------ > > Thinking about the ReadMe on your Extras installation screen, I closed KiCad > and then copied the ftp table into the local Library directory as requested. > > On re-opening KiCad, I can see the schematic, but somehow the pcb view was > left in an ultrazoomed/scrolled state from my previous experiments (see > above) - and I couldn't find my pcb. I tried zooming and scrolling. I saw > big and small gridwork, but the pcb must have been left miles away - > somewhere. > > I didn't get to test the footprints - but nothing crashed.. > > My computer is a Macbook Air 11" with OSX 10.11.5 - using integral trackpad. > > Have fun > > Bob G > > > On 06/15/2016 07:49 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: > > Hi folks, > > As you know, there have been some struggles testing what will become 4.0.3 > for OS X. :) I think we got through them all! > > If someone so inclined could download "4.0.3 rc7" from > http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/osx/stable/, and do a little testing, that > would be awesome. > > I don't need a super deep test, mostly "Do the DMGs look alright?" and > "KiCad opened after I installed it through the DMGs." > > Thanks! > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > W&L > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [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 > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
