Re: gEDA-user: howto pin size

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:31:23PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> kqt4at5v@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I have a component with a pin that info shows copper width = 72
> > I want to set copper width to 70 so I go to File->Preferneces->Increments 
> > and set Size Increment/Decrement to 1 and press OK
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This feature is currently broken (and has been for quite some time)
> 
> There is a bug report in the tracker. It contains a patch from spring 2009, 
> that has been bit-rotten, rebased in autumn 2010 and probably needs some 
> love again, if it is to apply to cuurent head. 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/699464
>

There is no way that patch will apply. I have fundamentally
changed the way that increments are managed in pcb -- the old
code had separate cases for mm and mils, but we no longer
give special treatment to those units.

The old code also let you change the increments for mm, and
not affect the increments for mil. Given that we now support
a dozen or so different units, this is clearly impractical.

So some design work (i.e., discussion) needs to happen before
I can fix the UI.
 
-- 
Andrew Poelstra
Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
Web:   http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/



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