RE: gEDA: Rotate while moving

["Timmerman, Bert" <bert_dot_timmerman-at-NOSPAMcorusgroup_dot_com>]

Hi Carlos and all,

I'm behind a few distro's of gEDA so it's possible I'm asking the obvious.

Does this mean that "copy-rotate" and "move-rotate" commands will available in the near future.

This is one of the most valued features I find in some mechanical CAD programs.

Another feature that may be of use is "multiple copying", like in:

{select objects}

{select copy from pull down menu or hit keystroke for copying}

[type M for multiple]: m <CR>

{while not done, indicate with mouse pointer for new copy, and hit <ESC> to abort}

Maybe this is already implemented in gschem and I really should upgrade gaf.

Just my EUR 0.01

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-geda-dev@seul.org [mailto:owner-geda-dev@seul.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Nieves Ónega
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:45 PM
To: geda-dev@seul.org
Subject: Re: gEDA: Rotate while moving

Hi Werner,

El mar, 02-05-2006 a las 23:12 +0200, Werner Hoch escribió:
[snip]
> The rotate comand erases (the not exising) original buffer and redraws 
> it as selection at the screen. Thats the garbage. Let's delete it.
> 
> 	o_erase_selected(w_current);

It worked!. I could still see some drawing-erasing, so I solved it
modifying o_rotate_90 so it accepts two new boolean parameters:
erase_objs, and redraw_objs, which controls the erasing and redrawing of
the objects. This way, no erasing or redrawing is made if not desired.

> But I think this will leed to problems when rotating in ENDCOPY state.
> The ENDCOPY will cause additional headache. When rotating we're rotating 
> the original buffer too. =:-(

Yes. As you pointed out, this also happens when hitting the ESC key
after the fist rotation...
The problem is that the list of selected objects is really a list of
pointers to the objects. If we are going to allow operations while
moving/copying, etc, we need to work with a list of selected objects
which are really a copy of the real objects. I'm not sure about how to
deal with this....

Regards,

Carlos