-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'll write up a patch to clean up the cursors (GAL only, not going to worry about legacy since that's so full of artifacts anyway) and push it to my advanced-feature-bugfixes branch in a few.
On 12/07/15 10:42, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: > For my taste it should be cleared. If you leave some active area > IMHO it doesn’t make sense to keep any old/inactive traces of a > tool/cursor… In fact, I find it hard to identify the real active > mouse position when multiple (old, but inactive) cursors are > visible on the screen. > > When writing this mail I have a text cursor when moving around in > the text window. The text cursor also doesn’t stay visible at the > edge of the text window when leaving the text window... > > > Regards, Bernhard > >> On 12 Jul 2015, at 18:46, Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello All >> >> When testing Andrew's patch from yesterday and the fact we >> finally got the crosshair ported to GAL, I have noticed that when >> the mouse pointer cursor exits the canvas the crosshair will >> freeze at the edge of the canvas. I have not thought more deeply >> about this before, because it is usual to the legacy canvas to >> have drawing artifacts. >> >> But what I really is asking now is; should it be like that or >> should it clear from the canvas? >> >> Please note this is when any tool except the pointer tool is >> active. The same behaivour is seen in the legacy canvas except it >> does not hide the cross hair in the select tool. >> >> Andrew told me to mention that he offered to fix it if people >> think that a fix is required. He estimate it'd take him 5 mins to >> make a patch to hide the cursor in the leave handler. It will be >> like a 4-line patch to common/view/wx_view_controls.cpp in >> onEnter and onLeave. >> >> He is willing to patch it if the consensus is that a fix is >> required. >> >> About the inconsistency about the select tool having the cross >> hair or not, he said he likes to have it becauese he uses to >> check alignment of stuff. This should of course lead the mind to >> think of https://xkcd.com/1172/. >> >> Regards Nick Østergaard >> >> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : >> kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : >> https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : > kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVoq0pAAoJEHHYD0Ve7x+svcMQAIoXMQHXONc9yZblMz2hl1UY WepkMEBvm2l7i1xfEqSEQIwTWZ0bvvmj+yh98NBCLl1p9rF/sMeZaifPAhOhOzVc 7Mb+9JMhlIeqYolvqekDB4P2rG4YDf5fNGjz+xxs9YGJ5GG/353HqJY+2IrDjnfX C8rYwaREQY0cpFjqeau/5fOZHh+lS/Ov8+NyGloYCu5V6ou8nqrrMEa0m2fxN1pD zIRD7BTaAcrib7Ci/yrNIa0wuWhB2LqSOymAFpMQXA48bWyR7cUn7Voj3zvumn3r eGHQF8NOybCGVManpOw+zij8qGxB79sJ4klCt/AcVAeA2bqZO13AqjhKDvo0i71B y9DcJNybDoYpxe0u72DJi5iysYNVBuZiVaLAYFmENmLDkCU+ZboeN1GFghfYmm6k Rq+WGvDGev8rLYfZDeq4O87stXHguqdsrEqqSMguiNcBqaDofresHr3K2rmwErt8 a5wQrZB52PMGtMT01KziZ7K6qUF/MdkjSrdX0nksyn00ST05GaoOZzojEPWLw3m4 SHZM3wYVQ7SxsoK7nA8P/T1CUoZJM9C6AJI2PYzSTAxTb7U7KJvJ7tMk1WgWGbO+ bNkEigP11WI39DkbBJcuZfk7XPXPvL+M4zAhEou0ctx6yWXeCPwcz72wRgwnNvJp xRLIPx6yUvs5uEn706Nh =MRfn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
