On 2016-04-11 15:12, Nick Østergaard wrote: > In addition I would vote for a proper validator that accepts units. We > already have the feature to enter 42.34 mm even if you are in inch > mode globally. With the wxvalidator you can not enter letters at all, > and hence not the unit.
+1 And... another wish in this context: It would be great to be able to use some simple math operators +-*/ as well, This is quite nicely done in some professional CAD tools. For pad or line positions, it could come in very handy to use something like "180°/5" or "2.54mm + 4.1mm + 5*1.27mm" Regards, Clemens > > 2016-04-11 15:09 GMT+02:00 jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr>: >> Le 11/04/2016 14:10, Chris Pavlina a écrit : >>> ...why would I make some special entry box for this? What's wrong with what >>> I've already done? >> >> Nothing really wrong, but: >> >> * At least on Windows, wxFloatingPointValidator does not work fine: >> - as long you are using the default language, it works. >> - if you are switching to an other language (in my case from French >> (default) to English, it does >> not work anymore (neither the '.' nor the ',' are accepted, you cannot enter >> a value with mantissa) >> This was already reported in a bug report (See >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1568302). >> * in all other dialogs which accept floating point coordinates, both the >> separators are accepted (. >> or ,) and correctly parsed and the value is correctly converted, This is a >> very serious enhancement >> for guys like me who are living in countries using the ',' as separator. >> >> So, I agree with Lorenzo: a derivative entry box which works on Windows, >> handles both separators and >> returns the right value is better than a wxFloatingPointValidator which does >> not work very well. >> >>> On Apr 11, 2016 2:18 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcanto...@cz-dynamic.it> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 10:37:43AM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote: >>>>> Anyone mind if I go through and fix the "in 0.1 degrees" units that are >>>> all >>>>> over pcbnew? I don't see any reason why we can't let the user enter unit >>>>> degrees with a decimal point. >>>> >>>> Probably stems for avoiding floats around the code, which is a good >>>> idea... we sometime went thru horrible linear algebra things to avoid >>>> trigonometric code and the resulting rounding issues. >>>> >>>> If you really want to fix it I'd suggest to make a derivative entry box >>>> that handles it and returns the value in decidegrees. Look how the >>>> current 'mils/inch/mm' entry box does it to centralize the >>>> conversion/check. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Lorenzo Marcantonio >>>> CZ Srl - Parma >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
