Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20060414 snapshot

[Ray Warren <raywarren2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:34:11PM -0500, Bill WIlson wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:16:39 -0500
> Ray Warren <raywarren2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > I have a small problem with the window size on my laptop. It is a wide
> > > screen model and I am using a screen resolution of 1280x800. When I
> > > start pcb the window height is taller than the screen so the window is
> > > cut off at the bottom,and I cannot manually reduce the window size.
> 
> I added an option which reorganizes the layout widgets and it will give you
> some more vertical space.  Here's a patch, apply in the pcb-20060414/src/hid
> directory with:  patch -p0 < /path-to-patch/pcb-patch2
> 
> You'll get some rejects, but they are for some CVS comment lines and
> it should still compile.  But if not I guess you'll have to wait for anonymous
> CVS to come back or another snapshot release.
> 
> With it, I can get the minimum vertical size to decrease from 686 to 523 pixels
> and what you can get will depend on the theme & desktop fonts you are using.
> Hope it'll be enough.
> 
> Bill
Thank you very much, the new preference setting to allow smaller
vertical size solves my problem.There were two rejects applying the
patch but no problems compiling afterward.
Ray Warren