add cursor-following status popups to all drawing tools
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Expired
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Currently, there is a nice helper box displayed beside the cursor when drawing an arc. I would consider it as useful to also add it to the other graphical objects as well:
Line: length and angle starting from the last point
Circle: radius
Polygone: length and angle starting from the last point (or probably to both connected points)
Probably the same for zones and keep out areas as for polygons
# System Information
Application: kicad
Version: (5.0.0-
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.1
libcurl/7.60.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0h zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.31.1
Platform: Linux 4.16.9-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.1.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 2.24
Boost: 1.66.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.60.0
Compiler: Clang 6.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: | added: gal |
summary: |
- add overlays for all graphical objects + add cursor-following status popups to all drawing tools |
Changed in kicad: | |
assignee: | nobody → Thomas Pointhuber (pointhi) |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in kicad: | |
milestone: | none → 6.0.0-rc1 |
I did a first implementation of this issue to add status popups to segments and circles.
To achieve this I used the Arc implementation as a blueprint and found out that draw segment lacks a geometric manager. My current implementation of the geometric manager is tied to the visualization part, but I suspect the geometric manager is normally used for more parts of the drawing step.
I didn't want to break anything, so I did not changed the drawSegment Implementation to use the geometric manager for more fundamental things. In the future this should probably be adopted.
Patches can also be found on: https:/ /github. com/pointhi/ kicad-source- mirror/ commits/ status- popup
(Please note, there is another commit in this repo which fixes some spelling issues in the ARC_ASSISTANT)