Re: [Xcircuit-dev] minor nits

[R. T. E. <ti...@mu...>]

Dear Don,

> First off, I was having trouble getting the cygwin version running on my 
> laptop.  Then I noticed a more recent compile (3.4).  Now it's working 
> fine!  Thanks.  (no, I don't like it, but my laptop needs to run windows).

Truth to tell, my laptop shares half of its disk space with WinXP.  But
I've managed not to boot it for several years now.

> As a good user (and a proponet of open source), I want to report any 
> anomoly I notice:
> 
> The "drill down" button isn't functioning.  ("Drill up" works fine).

By "drill down" and "drill up", I assume you are referring to what I like
to call "push" and "pop"?  I need a little more detail about how it
doesn't work---note a number of changes between versions 3.3 and 3.4.
The "push" button now functions (or rather, is supposed to function) as a
drawing mode, meaning that when that button is active, the 1st mouse
button executes a "push" into an object when you click on it.  The "pop"
function, by contrast, happens immediately.

> When I select Text-->Justification-->Middle ..., it resets the 
> Left/Center/Right to Left.

Oh, yes.  I was told that quite a long time ago and had forgotten about
it.  However, I still just recommend using the numbers on the keypad to
rejustify, since it's much faster.

> Just out of curiosity, why is the default snap spacing 0.101?  Why not 0.1?

The stated units of distance is a constant source of confusion.  The
default grid and snap spacings are 64 and 32 internal units, respectively.
By default, that is, with output scale = 1.0, these are 1/3 and 1/6 inch.
However, all of these units are reported in actual printed dimensions,
so they change.  I have recently added the ability to print these values
in internal units, although I should probably also allow them to be
printed in natural units, but independent of the output scale, so that they
don't show up as oddball sizes like 0.101.

					Regards,
					Tim

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