Re: [Kicad-developers] official web page

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I would also be nice if we had an announcement about the new stable release with a list of new features such as 64 layers, openGL rendering, PS routing, etc. On 6/20/2015 1:46 PM, Marcos Chaparro wrote: Yes, it would be nice to have the website updated. Kicad could have a lot of media coverage

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
You clearly did not read it all. The point is to not have two ingore files to sync. 2015-06-21 12:16 GMT+02:00 LordBlick lordbl...@gmail.com: In response to a message written on 21.06.2015, 05:12, from Marco Hess: I am using Git in my KiCad development and found that I had problems with

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Am 21.06.2015 um 03:06 schrieb Cirilo Bernardo: a. Abstracting a stream class which can magically support file retrieval by http, local files, and perhaps github (I know next to nothing about how github works) and local file writing. std::istream? b. The stream class can automatically

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release update.

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/20/2015 2:46 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2015-06-20 19:57 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com: Den 20/06/2015 18.58 skrev Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com: We are getting closer to the stable release branch. I am on vacation from June 27th to July 5th so I will be making a

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
See include/richio.h Our I/O objects already support wxInputStream and wxOutputStream. Although there is no reason you couldn't add objects that use std::istream and std::ostream or the boost::iostreams. I believe the wxIoStreams already support support archives so all you would have to do is

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
Ahh ok, I see. So I will have to do cat .gitconfig .git/config to actually enable it. 2015-06-21 13:18 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess marco.h...@through-ip.com: Yes, positive. I read up on it in the git documentation. The only config file that Git uses within a repository is .git/config. There is not

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
Correction, I tried to do that catting with the .gitconfig with excludesfile = .bzrignore 2015-06-21 14:00 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com: I just tried the catting before and it seems to work. 2015-06-21 13:53 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess marco.h...@through-ip.com: I guess you could do

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
I just tried the catting before and it seems to work. 2015-06-21 13:53 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess marco.h...@through-ip.com: I guess you could do that, but I added: [include] path = ../.gitconfig to my .git/config and I added instructions to that effect in the .gitconfig comments. If you

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Are we going to the stable release with all the drop-down items broken on pcbnew OSX? I cannot use the mouse or the track-pad to select any of the items on the four drop-down menus for Track size, Via size, Grid size and Zoom selection. I reported this several times, but nobody seems to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release update.

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/20/2015 4:21 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 09:14:14PM +0100, David J S Briscoe wrote: [snip] I'm afraid I will screw up the files on Github so probably better for me to do it the old fashioned way. Who can I send the edited files to? If you do this, someone will have

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
I guess you could do that, but I added: [include] path = ../.gitconfig to my .git/config and I added instructions to that effect in the .gitconfig comments. If you appeded the .gitconfig to .git/config I am nos sure that the path to .bzrignore is right. It might have to be ../.bzrignore

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix sloppy polygon tracing for board outline (RESUBMIT)

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
Attached a patch with a fix for the 'sloppy' board outline tracing that was used in pcbnew/specctra_export.cpp I submitted a similar patch earlier but that has not been merged yet. That previous patch may also have been a bit more messy and in some spots even violated the coding rules. So

Re: [Kicad-developers] Possibly low-hanging fruit usability improvement

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/20/2015 1:58 PM, Henner Zeller wrote: Hi, So I know we're about about get ready for the stable release, but there are two things that are possibly low-hanging fruit usability improvements, that we might consider. A lot of usability problems I run into are a series of modal dialogs I

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Adam Wolf
Simon, A group of us have talked about making a git plugin that will be compatible w the github plugin, but will use git on the user's system and won't do network io on its own. We have basically always pushed it off until after the stable release, but as soon as things quiet down i think we

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] 3d-viewer: enlarge zoom cell in status bar to prevent clipping in Russian

2015-06-21 Thread Martin d'Allens
Hi all, Here is a patch to resolve this issue: The zoom factor text in 3d viewer is truncated (Ru GUI). Zoom - Масштаб https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1467111 https://github.com/Caerbannog/kicad-git-bzr/commit/47574ae28e3286ac14ec354209ff578b83a16e67.patch Martin

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
Yes, positive. I read up on it in the git documentation. The only config file that Git uses within a repository is .git/config. There is not supposed to be a config file that is part of the repository by default. It only becomes active when you manually enable it. On 21-Jun-15 19:36, Nick

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
It is only about the comboboxes in the main window, right? Does anybody know any other comboboxes not working? I played around with that already some while back, but didn’t find anything wrong wrt how those are created. I can try again over the upcoming weekend… Regards, Bernhard On 22 Jun

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread louijp
I agree with Adam, this has been on and off for at least a year. But nobody came up with a plan to fix it. Now it seems that we have more OS X developers, so I hope someone will take the ball and run with it. Jean-PaulAC9GH Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

2015-06-21 Thread LordBlick
In response to a message written on 14.06.2015, 18:26, from Martin d'Allens: Hi all, This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a read-only directory on Windows: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510 IMHO, best default dir is last used dir. That should be

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Allow HTML files in KiCad project manager to be opened in browser

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
For your consideration a patch that extends the KiCad project manager to recognise HTML files in the project browser and open them in the default browser when clicked on. I use this feature quite a bit as I generate my various BOM and other reports through python scripts and in both HTML and

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use new footprint selector for Change Footprints

2015-06-21 Thread jp charras
Le 21/06/2015 22:24, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Is there any objection to getting rid of the search dialog or do you prefer adding both a search (current dialog) and a browse (Chris's patch) option to select the footprint. I'm fine with either option.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use new footprint selector for Change Footprints

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
I think it is good. Mostly I click Select by Browser anyway. And if Henner plans to move his awesome search as you type dialog to pcbnew after the release I think it is ok. 2015-06-21 22:24 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com: Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Is there any

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use new footprint selector for Change Footprints

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
The problem this fixes will not be fixed by Henner's search dialog because the lag is due to the loading of the all footprints in the fp lib table. Henner's search dialog will need the entire list of footprint in order for the search to be effective. The footprint browser solves this problem

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use new footprint selector for Change Footprints

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Is there any objection to getting rid of the search dialog or do you prefer adding both a search (current dialog) and a browse (Chris's patch) option to select the footprint. I'm fine with either option. I want to be sure before I commit this patch. On

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, That is a legitimate bug. Not sure if it is on the tracker yet, but it has been discussed on the list. Can you create bugs on the bug tracker, so these don't get dropped again? We definitely need extensive testing on MacOS. On reasonably modern MacBooks, OpenGL is the only canvas with

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: cleanup naming in component tree search container

2015-06-21 Thread jp charras
Le 21/06/2015 06:40, Henner Zeller a écrit : Hi, Looking at my old code in the component tree search container, it looks like in the meantime it acquired two styles of member variable naming; the old without the m_* prefix is now accompanied with apparently the new preferred style with an m_*

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

2015-06-21 Thread Martin d'Allens
I managed to build KiCad on windows, it works as far as I can tell. But to get it to work I had to remove a noname.pro that had been generated before my patch was applied. And with regedit I cleared HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/KiCad/kciad/file1. Otherwise the stray noname.pro looks valid and there

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

2015-06-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
There are several other places where it might be nice to use the user's document folder instead of the CWD which is kicad executable path. I found two more places, new project in kicad and file open in pcbnew that use CWD which typically the user will not have write access. I fixed both of these

Re: [Kicad-developers] official web page

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
For whoever who want to compose such a message, should start out with having a look at http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/KiCad+Development I have collected some of the new nice additions, likely not all. 2015-06-21 18:12 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com: I would also be nice if

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Adam Wolf
That is a legitimate bug. Not sure if it is on the tracker yet, but it has been discussed on the list. There are plenty of OS X UI issues that should be evaluated before the stable release. I suspect moat of then are wxwidgets issues. *sigh* Adam Wolf Adam Wolf On Jun 21, 2015 1:07 PM, Nick

Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
Where is the bug listed in the bug tracker Jean-Paul? 2015-06-21 19:46 GMT+02:00 Jean-Paul Louis lou...@yahoo.com: Are we going to the stable release with all the drop-down items broken on pcbnew OSX? I cannot use the mouse or the track-pad to select any of the items on the four drop-down

[Kicad-developers] Footprint license

2015-06-21 Thread Chris Pavlina
What is the license for the footprint libraries? These should probably have a COPYING.txt in the individual repos - I'm sure I could find the license if I searched around, but it should be right there. ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release update.

2015-06-21 Thread David J S Briscoe
On 20/06/2015 21:41, Martin d'Allens wrote: Actually with Github you can do all three from your web browser, following those instructions: https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-another-user-s-repository/ Try on this document for instance:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable release update.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
I can just add a gallery page where we can dump lots and lots of screenshots, preferably with some kind of annotaiton. It could act sort of an extension of the made with kicad page. http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Made+with+KiCad 2015-06-21 0:06 GMT+02:00 Cirilo Bernardo

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
Ahh that was what was missing, i have been wondering about that for a while. 2015-06-21 5:12 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess marco.h...@through-ip.com: I am using Git in my KiCad development and found that I had problems with ignoring generated files. After some stuffing around I found it was supposed

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Østergaard
But are you sure that you need to enabled that in the .git/config? 2015-06-21 12:04 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com: Ahh that was what was missing, i have been wondering about that for a while. 2015-06-21 5:12 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess marco.h...@through-ip.com: I am using Git in my

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread LordBlick
In response to a message written on 21.06.2015, 05:12, from Marco Hess: I am using Git in my KiCad development and found that I had problems with ignoring generated files. After some stuffing around I found it was supposed to be handled through configuring git to use the .bzringore file through