Re: gEDA-user: routing questions

[Bill WIlson <billw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:03:19 -0500
DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Shift works, "/" does not work. Maybe this is because on my (german)
> > keyboard / is on the "7" key? I have to press [shift-7] to get the
> > slash in text applications. If I press "7" in pcb, the seventh layer
> > gets current. With [shift-7] nothing happens.
> 
> Not having a German keyboard, I'm not sure how to debug this.
> Actually, the slash key does nothing on my keyboard (gtk pcb) either.
> Works for the lesstif hid, but only because there's an extra
> accelerator for it.

It was overlooked and left out of the 20050609 snapshot but was fixed
in a later patch to CVS.  It works for me, and you should see the bottom
status line change as you hit the '/' key with the charactors "_/" and
"\_" cycling to indicate the mode.

> > If I press the control key while drawing a line, the preview vanishes
> > and I get no new line segment. All I get if I click while holding the
> > ctrl key is a marker like the one of [shift-m].

The control key restarts the line at the current cursor position
in the gtk version.  You have to use the menu Settings->Enable all direction lines.