gEDA-user: PCB lesstif pcb-menu.res ideas

[John Griessen <john_g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The mouse buttons now being pcb-menu.res action choices is truly fine.

Here are a couple of ideas I had:

1.	What if already started commands could be modified by user selectable 		 
mouse button functions?

	I can see a nice usage for placing vias:

	Choose via tool the usual way.  Now PCB is ready to act on a left button 	down 
event.  In comes a scroll wheel event.  Now PCB suspends polling 			the mouse 
for an instant, and reponding to the new event, changes the 	
	value of ViaDrillingHole up a mil for the up button, or down a mil for
	the down button.

But, what about ViaSize?  How could a mouse button up/down modifier trigger 
scrolling up or down in a lookup table of defined pairs of commands like 
desirable ViaDrillingHole and ViaSize combinations?  Sounds like a 
Scheme/guile/lisp function...

2. 	What if I could launch two commands with one key?  (I think I can..)

	An example that seems useful during footprint creation, and sometimes
	when fixing up power vias, is to execute pairs like
	ChangeDrillSize(SelectedVias, 34,mil) and
	ChangeSize(SelectedVias,78,mil)
with one key.


This line from pcb-menu.res suggests  two commands to a key is already there:

{"Lines -10 mil" ChangeSize(SelectedLines,-10,mil) ChangeSize(SelectedArcs,-10,mil)}

I'll try others written that way snd see what happens.


John Griessen


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