Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/27/04:15:17
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:05:07PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > I actually do mean in-editor scripting. Like you need a smallish feature,
> > something that's almost as simple as you could do it from the actions, but
> > it already requires a loop and a few if's here and there...
>
> If that includes specifying coordinates, then sweet :-)
>
> > I've just installed 20140306 (was that the last snapshot?) to test it.
> > With the gtk hid, 'R' doesn't do anything. Report doesn't print length
> > info either.
>
> Might be lesstif-only. :Report(NetLength) for gtk.
>
> > Sometimes I scale down silk text and it becomes unreadable because the
> > lines are just too thick. However, when I have larger text on the same
> > board, I want lines to be thick. This feature would allow the user to
> > change text line thickness independently of text size.
>
> Ok, but the silk lines are also limited by DRC minimum silk rules. I
> find that that kicks in pretty quickly on small text.
>
> > When I switched from autotools to scconfig, I didn't implement the
> > detection of lesstif.
>
> Ah, ok. I thought you did something to bypass the HID api in a
> gtk-specific way.
>
> > Let's face it: the lesstif hid is not very popular, most users go
> > for the gtk hid.
>
> True. I'm probably one of the only lesstif users. However, there's
> also the batch HID that gedasymbols uses, and some day we should have
> a Win32 HID. There's at least one other GUI hid out there in the wild
> too.
Count me as another lesstif user, especially because I use the "R" key.
When I don't need it, I use the gtk version with opengl.
Gabriel
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