Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] On net ties, microwave tools & custom pad shapes, altogether.

2016-05-03 Thread Strontium
My 2c. One of the fantastically useful features of eeschema is components have an "arbitrary" list of key:value pairs (fields) attached to them as attributes. Can I suggest that such a feature attached to objects on the PCB would be even more powerful/useful. It would mean that changes lik

Re: [Kicad-developers] Preferences rework - pcbnew

2016-05-03 Thread José Ignacio
What about simply removing the legacy canvas preemptively from the development branch? gal-only is pretty usable by now and it might reduce development workload for new features. On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 5/2/2016 4:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >> I'd like to star

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Chris Pavlina
I like that the distinction between bright and dark lines was kept into the dots. The extra coarser grid on top of the fine grid is very useful :) On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 11:01:35PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote: > 2016-05-03 21:10 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Stegmaier : > > You are right. > > I didn’t expe

Re: [Kicad-developers] Preferences rework - pcbnew

2016-05-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
I can imagine it, but I thought it was necessary to mention the idea. This task would be easier if we could just get rid of the legacy canvas. But that probably can't happen immediately, as we all know. 2016-05-03 17:13 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina : > Oh god no. Can you imagine the bug reports from pe

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
2016-05-03 21:10 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Stegmaier : > You are right. > I didn’t expect the dots to be different, but every 10th dot is the bigger > one. Exactly as is the case with the lines... > > BTW: > I do seem to get a popup “OpenGL 2.1 supported” on every start recently. > Is that on intention

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
Yes, looks perfect now. Thanks! > On 03 May 2016, at 15:20, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > > Hi Bernhard, > > Good catch, it should be fixed now (revision 6766). > > Regards, > Orson > > On 05/02/2016 07:24 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: >> I already wanted to try over the weekend on OS X before the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
You are right. I didn’t expect the dots to be different, but every 10th dot is the bigger one. BTW: I do seem to get a popup “OpenGL 2.1 supported” on every start recently. Is that on intention and what should it tell me (apart from the fact that OpenGL 2.1 is supported… :) )? It is quite annoyi

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Simon Wells
bernhard, are the ones that are the easily visible ones the darker grid lines (ever 5 or so) that are more intense in the line mode On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: > Maybe some anti-aliasing issue? > For me, dots are also quite small and some of them are barely visible,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
Maybe some anti-aliasing issue? For me, dots are also quite small and some of them are barely visible, while others look quite normal. When I played around with the grid dots on OS X in legacy canvas I also had a hard time to find a configuration where dots are visible both on (HiDPI) retina an

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread jp charras
Le 03/05/2016 à 18:06, Bernhard Stegmaier a écrit : > In the Dimensions => Grid menu you can switch between dots/lines (also took > me some while, I would have expected it in some preferences dialog). > I don’t think that it is a (common) wxWidgets 3.1 issue. > My OS X build uses a wxWidgets maste

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
In the Dimensions => Grid menu you can switch between dots/lines (also took me some while, I would have expected it in some preferences dialog). I don’t think that it is a (common) wxWidgets 3.1 issue. My OS X build uses a wxWidgets master maybe two weeks old and grid is fine both with dots and l

Re: [Kicad-developers] mode openGL issues after latest updates

2016-05-03 Thread Mário Luzeiro
Hi Orson, I tested your new change, still working but I was wondering: void OPENGL_GAL::BeginUpdate() { if( IsShownOnScreen() ) SetCurrent( *OPENGL_GAL::glContext ); On this case shouldn't you not allow the begin of the update at all? (As you will not be able to render it)... but I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread jp charras
Le 03/05/2016 à 15:56, Maciej Sumiński a écrit : > On 05/02/2016 06:33 PM, jp charras wrote: >> Le 02/05/2016 à 17:16, Maciej Sumiński a écrit : >>> As noone had opposed the changes, I have just merged the bitmap fonts >>> branch. >>> >>> As a small bonus, we have also added an option to switch to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Preferences rework - pcbnew

2016-05-03 Thread Chris Pavlina
Oh god no. Can you imagine the bug reports from people who can't find settings? http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/727/910/577.gif On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 04:41:20PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote: > Maybe just show or enable the settings if the appropriate canvas is active? > > 2016

Re: [Kicad-developers] Preferences rework - pcbnew

2016-05-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
Maybe just show or enable the settings if the appropriate canvas is active? 2016-05-03 14:52 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh : > On 5/2/2016 4:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >> I'd like to start having a look at how I can organize the preferences for >> pcbnew, having mostly finished in eeschema. (A few th

Re: [Kicad-developers] mode openGL issues after latest updates

2016-05-03 Thread Mário Luzeiro
I tested (on Windows) and it works! I didn't feel any issues. Thanks, Mario From: Maciej Sumiński [maciej.sumin...@cern.ch] Sent: 03 May 2016 15:20 To: Mário Luzeiro; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: mode openGL issues after latest updates

Re: [Kicad-developers] mode openGL issues after latest updates

2016-05-03 Thread Maciej Sumiński
On 05/03/2016 12:06 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > Hi Orson, > I tested the new updates on my branch code, and now on Windows I got this > issues after I close the 3d-viewer windows: > > Error: mapping vertices buffer: invalid operation > Error: unmapping vertices buffer: invalid operation > Error: u

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: 3D resolver

2016-05-03 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Most of the time! :) On 5/3/2016 10:15 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > ...but getting to tell people to pound sand is the best part of leading a > project! ;D > > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> I knew you were kidding. If I didn't have to be concerned with anythin

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: 3D resolver

2016-05-03 Thread Chris Pavlina
...but getting to tell people to pound sand is the best part of leading a project! ;D On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:08:03AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I knew you were kidding. If I didn't have to be concerned with anything > else, I would have committed the patch already and told everyone who >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Chris Pavlina
Remember, I'm about to rearrange all the options anyway, so it's probably not much of a concern where it goes for now. Feel free to begin the preferences organization bikeshedding on the thread I already started for that, though :D On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 03:58:21PM +0200, Maciej Sumiński wrote: >

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: 3D resolver

2016-05-03 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I knew you were kidding. If I didn't have to be concerned with anything else, I would have committed the patch already and told everyone who complained to pound sand. Unfortunately my role as product leader makes things a bit more complicated. I'm with you on the c++11 side of things. We'll get

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: 3D resolver

2016-05-03 Thread Chris Pavlina
FWIW, I meant that to come across like I was kidding, and I'm not entirely sure I managed the right tone to get that across. I understand why you're cautious, though indeed I'm solidly on the pro-C++11 side of things ;) On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 09:49:14AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 5/2/2016

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Maciej Sumiński
On 05/02/2016 06:33 PM, jp charras wrote: > Le 02/05/2016 à 17:16, Maciej Sumiński a écrit : >> As noone had opposed the changes, I have just merged the bitmap fonts >> branch. >> >> As a small bonus, we have also added an option to switch to dotted grid >> in GAL (thanks to Tom for refactoring the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Hi Simon, On 05/02/2016 07:08 PM, Simon Wells wrote: > just fyi for anyone as dumb/blind as me the option for switching > between dots and lines for the grid is in Dimensions->Grid in pcbnew. Purposedly I have not left any clues to see if I had picked the right place for the setting. Apparently i

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: 3D resolver

2016-05-03 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 5/2/2016 8:23 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:40:25AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> I'm not 100% sure we should pull the plug on mingw32/msys1 just yet. >> There will most likely be a bunch ubuntu and fedora users who are using >> older stable versions that this will eff

Re: [Kicad-developers] mode openGL issues after latest updates

2016-05-03 Thread Maciej Sumiński
On 05/03/2016 03:23 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 5/3/2016 6:58 AM, jp charras wrote: >> Le 03/05/2016 à 12:06, Mário Luzeiro a écrit : >>> Hi Orson, >>> I tested the new updates on my branch code, and now on Windows I got this >>> issues after I close the 3d-viewer windows: >>> >>> Error: mappi

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bitmap fonts (+ dotted grid)

2016-05-03 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Hi Bernhard, Good catch, it should be fixed now (revision 6766). Regards, Orson On 05/02/2016 07:24 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: > I already wanted to try over the weekend on OS X before the merge… anyway, > just > tried and it looks fine for me, good work! > Oh yes, I love the dotted grid… :

Re: [Kicad-developers] Preferences rework - pcbnew

2016-05-03 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 5/2/2016 4:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > I'd like to start having a look at how I can organize the preferences for > pcbnew, having mostly finished in eeschema. (A few things remain to be tweaked > and will probably be done at the same time as pcbnew, to keep things in sync). > > The problem of

[Kicad-developers] [RFC] On net ties, microwave tools & custom pad shapes, altogether.

2016-05-03 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
Hi all, Recently there has been a lot of discussion on these features. Here's a short proposal how we could hit all three birds with one stone: Changes to SCH: - none Changes to netlist import: - auto_generate flag for SCH components - when set, invokes a Python script/C++ plugin which updates t

Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNEW B.SilkS text rotation problems, is any one working on this or have see this bugs, on (bzr 6765)

2016-05-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
I am sure this is related to pcbnew refusing to put text upside down. Den 03/05/2016 14.36 skrev "jp charras" : > Le 03/05/2016 à 14:18, Lachlan Audas a écrit : > > Hi JP, > > > > Try Vertical alignment, ie +90 and -90 .. when you on the B.SilkS > > also so note it come's back with -0.0 IE

Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNEW B.SilkS text rotation problems, is any one working on this or have see this bugs, on (bzr 6765)

2016-05-03 Thread jp charras
Le 03/05/2016 à 14:18, Lachlan Audas a écrit : > Hi JP, > > Try Vertical alignment, ie +90 and -90 .. when you on the B.SilkS > also so note it come's back with -0.0 IE it prefix's the deg's with a > minus sing.. in some cases. > try 0.0 and 0.1 deg's, and also jumps the text to new X,Y p

Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNEW B.SilkS text rotation problems, is any one working on this or have see this bugs, on (bzr 6765)

2016-05-03 Thread jp charras
Le 03/05/2016 à 11:02, Lachlan Audas a écrit : > Hi, the text rotation has many problem, for the B.SilkS layer > has any one else seen this ? or working on the bugs ? > What bug? I do not have any issue. I do not see what you mean. -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _

Re: [Kicad-developers] mode openGL issues after latest updates

2016-05-03 Thread jp charras
Le 03/05/2016 à 12:06, Mário Luzeiro a écrit : > Hi Orson, > I tested the new updates on my branch code, and now on Windows I got this > issues after I close the 3d-viewer windows: > > Error: mapping vertices buffer: invalid operation > Error: unmapping vertices buffer: invalid operation > Error:

[Kicad-developers] mode openGL issues after latest updates

2016-05-03 Thread Mário Luzeiro
Hi Orson, I tested the new updates on my branch code, and now on Windows I got this issues after I close the 3d-viewer windows: Error: mapping vertices buffer: invalid operation Error: unmapping vertices buffer: invalid operation Error: unbinding vertices buffer: invalid operation My guess is t

[Kicad-developers] PCBNEW B.SilkS text rotation problems, is any one working on this or have see this bugs, on (bzr 6765)

2016-05-03 Thread Lachlan Audas
Hi, the text rotation has many problem, for the B.SilkS layer has any one else seen this ? or working on the bugs ? This also shows up on Eagle PCB import. As a side note, the rotation dialog is overly complex. IE there is no need to have a button for other to access the deg rotation. You

Re: [Kicad-developers] Debian and Ubuntu packaging.

2016-05-03 Thread Эльдар Хайруллин
Hello. You need should to look to Ubuntu Snappy packaging  https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/   . Solve problems with versions of 3-party dependency libraries (provide only properly tested versions). Support of Snappy building  in  https://launchpad.net  . Simple add to the Ubuntu Store wit