Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-08 Thread Vesa Solonen
08.10.2012 14:03, Craig Southeren kirjoitti: Sorry - I've been busy and I had to redo the user interface as per some suggestions from the Kicad developers. As long I'm not the one doing the work I'm not demanding anything either. Thank you for your work and take your time. The only reason for

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-08 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:46:40PM +0200, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > Assuming that Kicad will have an OpenGL drawing engine sometime, > this will not be a problem... Actually it will be a *bigger* problem :D texture size is limited... and 1024x1024 (many board actually support 4096x4096) is a big

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-08 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 10/08/2012 12:26 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: What would worry me is that an image of that kind would be probably *huge* especially if at high resolution. Blitting it efficiently could be tricky... Assuming that Kicad will have an OpenGL drawing engine sometime, this will not be a problem..

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-08 Thread Craig Southeren
On 8/10/2012 9:26 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:20:29PM +0300, Vesa Solonen wrote: Do you know why Scott wants independent scaling? Anyway... scaling with two factors is as difficult as an homogeneous scaling. Its more matter of the user interface. Given that the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-08 Thread Craig Southeren
On 8/10/2012 9:20 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote: 08.10.2012 02:20, Craig Southeren kirjoitti: I'm hoping to have patches against the latest Kicad code available this week. I'd love some feedback ! I'm waiting eagerly to see it working! I was also expecting some public code somewhere or some status

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-08 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:20:29PM +0300, Vesa Solonen wrote: > >Do you know why Scott wants independent scaling? Anyway... scaling with two factors is as difficult as an homogeneous scaling. What would worry me is that an image of that kind would be probably *huge* especially if at high resoluti

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-08 Thread Vesa Solonen
08.10.2012 02:20, Craig Southeren kirjoitti: I'm hoping to have patches against the latest Kicad code available this week. I'd love some feedback ! I'm waiting eagerly to see it working! I was also expecting some public code somewhere or some status updates on the list to see if you have fou

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-07 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/7/2012 7:20 PM, Craig Southeren wrote: Wayne, I've implemented a bitmap "underlay" feature that I am using for tracing the tracks on vintage PCB boards. This displays a high resolution, full colour bitmap under all of the board layers that can be used to align tracks, components or mechani

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-07 Thread Craig Southeren
Wayne, I've implemented a bitmap "underlay" feature that I am using for tracing the tracks on vintage PCB boards. This displays a high resolution, full colour bitmap under all of the board layers that can be used to align tracks, components or mechanical requirements. I have a few UI tweaks

[Kicad-developers] Fwd: Re: KiCad suggestion

2012-10-07 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I just received and responded to the the email below. It doesn't happen as often as it should but every once in a while someone gives the KiCad developers thanks for doing a good job. So for all of you hunched over your keyboards trying to make KiCad better with each and every commit, thanks