* Split and rewrite the preview window and canvas.
* Create a new class for handling the board information.
* Adds new render targets: openGL, legacy, and ray tracing.
* Render targets take full advantage of the new 3D plugins system and 3D cache
for a fast 3D model loading.
* Faster board loading.
* New OpenGL render is faster than the old one.
* New ray tracing render target with a post processing shader.
* Use of new 3D plugins (WRL, X3D, STEP and IGES) and 3D model caching.
* Preview of 3D model while browsing the file name.
* 3D preview of the footprint while adding / align 3D shapes.
* Render of 3D models according to attributes: Normal, Normal+Insert, Virtual.
* Pivot rotation centered in one point over the PCB board.
* Shortcuts keys improved for XYZ orientation..
* Animated camera.
* Add SCH_PLUGIN::Save() for current file format and code for saving all
SCH_XXX objects.
* Add function to SCH_FIELD to get the position of the field in the component
not the position added to the component position which is what GetPosition()
does. This was required because saving the component field expects position
of the field sans the position of the component.
* Remove public members from BITMAP_BASE object and fix all associated
code.
* Fix the never ending coding policy violations found making these changes.
* Factor out PROPERTIES object from the PCB plugin code and move it into
common so it can be used by both the Pcbnew and Eeschema plugins.
* Add schematic I/O plugin manager for loading and saving schematic and
component library files.
* Add initial attempt at a parser for current schematic file format. This
parser will be infinitely more strict than the current parser which is very
forgiving in what it parses.
* Make minor changes to the base bitmap class to support the new parser.
* Add find root sheet support to sheet object to allow fetching the root
sheet from any sheet in the stack.
It is especially true in some Window Managers like KDE, but can be true in any WM, when initializations are made by TransferDataToWindow() method, called by the default wxInitDialogEvent handler.
This feature was not reliably available: neither pl_editor nor GAL supported
it. It has been replaced over the past few commits with a new zoom-to-selection
tool available in all applications and modes.
* An assumption was made that wxDynamicLibrary.Load() would always result in
a wxLogSystemError on failure which was not always true. The code now throws
an exception which is caught by KiCad and an error message is displayed. In
the case where the wxLogSystemError is shown, there will be an annoying two
error messages but that is better than a crash.
Commit BZR 6703 introduced a minor horizontal adjustment for stroke
text rendering in GAL, but the Translate() call was done before
calling Save(). So, when this function was called multiple times a
residual offset carried over to each subsequent line.
bzr 6703 = git 67982a4
* move gerber_file_image_list class to a separate file
* better BestZoom calculation, and fix incorrect size of wxTextCtrl showing info about gerber file format.
* remove useless file and dead code. Remove not used parameters in some classes (mainly in class_gerber_draw_item)
This feature cannot work reliably for reasons explained in lp:1463505. Remove
the option on OS X builds and force cursor to the small one.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463505
> Bernhard Stegmaier (stegmaier) wrote on 2016-01-14:
>
> As far as I see from the code this is no bug but done on intention.
>
> The reason probably is that on OSX in the legacy canvas you don't have the
> XOR-drawing as on other platforms. To the best of my knowledge, this would
> mean that on every mouse move you would have to repaint the whole window just
> to get rid of the "old" cross.
>
> So, I would say this is a clear "won't fix".
> We could think of just removing/disabling the button in the legacy canvas.
Currently, kicad_pcb files have a (version ...) tag, but it is ignored. This
commit does the following:
1. Parse the version. If it's later than the last supported version, present an
alternative error message suggesting an upgrade if the file does not load
correctly. The version will be interpreted as an integer YYYYMMDD to suggest
a KiCad release date.
2. Accept a (version ...) tag also in kicad_mod files, but do not write them
yet. If no version tag is present in these files, assume the version to be that
of the current format version at the time of this commit.
This is meant to be merged to the 4.x stable series, and preps for KiCad 5
which will start emitting version tags also in footprints - users with what
will then be 'old stable' will not get a parse error when we introduce this for
footprints, and we can safely increment the format version later.