Re: gEDA-user: coordinate systems [was: pcb crooked traces]

[Phillip Jones <pjones13@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
>>
>> Am 17.10.2010 um 17:16 schrieb Levente Kovacs:
>>
>> >I think that is why X11 has its coordinate system as is; and that
>> >is why PCB developers went that way. But a CAD tool is not
>> >about CRT display or image processing. I think we should
>> >change it; it looks very awkward for a new user, who doesn't
>> >know the story.
>>
>> Being a new gEDA user and fairly experienced with other CAD
>> applications I can tell I couldn't care less. If one ever has to
>> enter or read coordinates manually, there's something incomplete or
>> wrong with the GUI.
>>
>
> I disagree. There are situations I can think of in which manually
> entering coordinates would be simpler than using a "GUI" method.
>
> I definitely think we sould flip the coordinate grid, but what
> would that do to exiting files?
>

Version the file format. Introduce a new PCB_FILE_VERSION. If this is
defined in the file then call the appropriate read function, if it is
not defined then use the old function.

-Phillip


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