| ID: | 5659 |
| From: | rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Wed, 18 May 2022 05:26:12 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | [pcb-rnd] new: window placement code also remembers paned positions |
| replies: | 5660 from rn...@igor2.repo.hu , 5667 from Wojciech Krutnik <wo...@gmail.com> |
Hi all, Wojciech, please test and ACK, it was your feature request. 1. what it is We have code in librnd for saving and restoring window geometry (window position and window size). This is generally a bad idea, because the window manager should do such things, but it turns out majority of our users, even UNIX hacker pcb-rnd users, are using window managers that are too lame to do this. So we have this _option_, off-by-default, that you can get librnd apps do this, sort of overriding the window manager. This option got upgraded now so that it also remembers paned widget positions inside windows. (A paned widget is when you have the dialog box split with a horizontal or vertical sweeper and you can grab and move it to decide how much screen estate you want to allocate to each side; e.g. in library window, if you resize the window larger, you can change the left/right splitup). This is something window managers can not do, as it's a window-internal widget allocation question. 2. where is it implemented, how does it work It is implemented in librnd svn HEAD, will be part of the upcoming librnd 3.2.0 release. Since it is in librnd, it will affect all ringdove apps, at different times (this requires ringdove apps to raise minimum required librnd version to 3.2.0, which means we first need to release librnd 3.2.0, so some apps will get it later, some sooner, depending on release cycles, see below.) If you save window position and enable window position reload (preferences dialog, window tab), it now also saves paned widget positions in subtrees under each window affected. This doesn't happen automatically on any paned widget, only named paned widgets, so it requires the app to name them, which is a new feature in 3.2.0, that's why all the version dependency delays. 3. in librnd dialogs The original feature request was that the file selection dialog should have this; now it does. Furhtermore it's done for the script dialog and preferences dialog conf tree tab. (These dialogs/tabs are all implemented in librnd.) Since librnd 3.2.0 is backward compatible down to librnd 3.0.0, you can enjoy this feauture even with older versions of the apps (pcb-rnd, sch-rnd) for the above dialog boxes and tabs. This is also how you can easiest test it now. 4. in pcb-rnd's own dialogs Not yet available. The next release will not yet depend on librnd 3.2.0, only the release after. So for pcb-rnd's own dialog boxes, this feature will arrive around late summer in svn and then in the release following that. (Note: as described in point 3, the file selection dialog, scripting dialog and one of the preferences tabs are exceptions, they should work already, or even with older versions of pcb-rnd, if you try with svn HEAD librnd, because these are implemented in librnd.) 5. in sch-rnd Since sch-rnd in its current state always depends on svn HEAD librnd, I have more freedom there, so I went and named all paned widgets. So all dialog boxes you see in sch-rnd can save paned positions. 6. camv-rnd Easiest one: at the moment it doesn't have any own dialog box with paned view. 7. the big exception Top window paned position (between the left side "layer selector" and the right side "drawing area") is NOT remembered. This is because the top window is not a DAD dialog. I am not going to add a special case for this one, because longer term I want to convert the top window into a DAD dialog. So we will need to live with this for now. Best regards, Igor2
Reply subtree:
5659 [pcb-rnd] new: window placement code also remembers paned positions from rn...@igor2.repo.hu
5660 [pcb-rnd] lesstif: no paned widgets (+ phasing out); was: window placement code also remembers paned positions from rn...@igor2.repo.hu
5667 Re: [pcb-rnd] new: window placement code also remembers paned from Wojciech Krutnik <wo...@gmail.com>