Re: gEDA-user: pcb HID has been merged!

[Bill WIlson <billw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:24:25 -0500
DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The HID project has been merged back to the official SourceForge CVS
> repository.  The default GUI is Gtk; to get lesstif use
> "--with-gui=lesstif".  Dan made a snapshot just before this, for the
> old gtk version.  Report bugs via the usual means.

Application settings handling for the HID version have been reorganized
for the better and a consequence is that the preferences and colors file
formats for the Gtk version have changed.  If you start using the HID version,
you might first archive your ~/.pcb directory in case you want to move
back to the old Gtk version.

If you have any custom ~/.pcb/colors files set up, you can manually edit
and make for example these transformations:
  ElementColor -> element-color
...
  ViaSelectedColor -> via-selected-color
...
  LayerColor1 -> layer-color-1
...

There may a couple of rough spots yet left with the preferences part
(for example a color change won't show until the screen is redrawn), but
they should be cleaned up over the next few days.

Also, zoom/pan for both the Gtk and Lesstif versions are now controlled
with the mouse and board navigation is I think far better.  For the Gtk version,
look over the Mouse section of the key reference (Window->Key Reference).

Bill