New classes:
- VIEW - represents view that is seen by user, takes care of layer ordering & visibility and how it is displayed (which location, how much zoomed, etc.)
- VIEW_ITEM - Base class for every item that can be displayed on VIEW (the biggest change is that now it may be necessary to override ViewBBox & ViewGetLayers method for derived classes).
- EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL - Inherits after EDA_DRAW_PANEL, displays VIEW output, right now it is not editable (in opposite to usual EDA_DRAW_PANEL).
- GAL/OPENGL_GAL/CAIRO_GAL - Base Graphics Abstraction Layer class + two different flavours (Cairo is not fully supported yet), that offers methods to draw primitives using different libraries.
- WX_VIEW_CONTROLS - Controller for VIEW, handles user events, allows zooming, panning, etc.
- PAINTER/PCB_PAINTER - Classes that uses GAL interface to draw items (as you may have already guessed - PCB_PAINTER is a class for drawing PCB specific object, PAINTER is an abstract class). Its methods are invoked by VIEW, when an item has to be drawn. To display a new type of item - you need to implement draw(ITEM_TYPE*) method that draws it using GAL methods.
- STROKE_FONT - Implements stroke font drawing using GAL methods.
Most important changes to Kicad original code:
* EDA_ITEM now inherits from VIEW_ITEM, which is a base class for all drawable objects.
* EDA_DRAW_FRAME contains both usual EDA_DRAW_PANEL and new EDA_DRAW_PANEL_GAL, that can be switched anytime.
* There are some new layers for displaying multilayer pads, vias & pads holes (these are not shown yet on the right sidebar in pcbnew)
* Display order of layers is different than in previous versions (if you are curious - you may check m_galLayerOrder@pcbnew/basepcbframe.cpp). Preserving usual order would result in not very natural display, such as showing silkscreen texts on the bottom.
* Introduced new hotkey (Alt+F12) and new menu option (View->Switch canvas) for switching canvas during runtime.
* Some of classes (mostly derived from BOARD_ITEM) now includes ViewBBox & ViewGetLayers methods.
* Removed tools/class_painter.h, as now it is extended and included in source code.
Build changes:
* GAL-based rendering option is turned on by a new compilation CMake option KICAD_GAL.
* When compiling with CMake option KICAD_GAL=ON, GLEW and Cairo libraries are required.
* GAL-related code is compiled into a static library (common/libgal).
* Build with KICAD_GAL=OFF should not need any new libraries and should come out as a standard version of Kicad
Currently most of items in pcbnew can be displayed using OpenGL (to be done are DIMENSIONS and MARKERS).
More details about GAL can be found in: http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/1884/view-spec.pdf
* Improve MSG_PANEL_ITEM to handle message panel information.
* Create containers for passing message panel items between objects and
the message panel.
* Rename EDA_ITEM::DisplayInfo to EDA_ITEM::GetMsgPanelInfo.
* Remove all direct manipulation of EDA_DRAW_FRAME from all objects derived
from EDA_ITEM.
* Move board item object Format() functions into PCB_IO object.
* Change file format to use layer names instead of numbers.
* Change file extension to kicad_pcb.
* Move EDA_TEXT object into separate header and source file.
* Compile EDA_TEXT class separately for BOARD_ITEM and SCH_ITEM units.
* Compile PAGE_INFO class separately for BOARD_ITEM and SCH_ITEM units.
* Minor formatting tweaks to Pcbnew s-expression file.
* Move internal unit formatting functions into BOARD_ITEM and SCH_ITEM.
* Add s-expression Format() function to all objects derived from
BOARD_ITEM.
* Add s-expression Format() function to base objects as required.
* Add functions to convert coordinates from base internal units
(nanometers) to millimeter string for writing to s-expression
file.
* Add temporary dummy conversion functions to prevent link errors
until schematic and board object and action code can be separated
into DSO/DLL.
* Add CMake build option to build Pcbnew with nanometer internal
units.
* BLOCK_SELECTOR class is not longer derived from EDA_ITEM.
* Encapsulate BLOCK_SELECTOR class member variables and add access methods.
* Move HandleBlockBegin() function from block_commande.cpp to drawframe.cpp.
* Remove virtual methods from top level derived objects per future
coding policy change.
* Remove Doxygen copydoc statement from objects derived from EDA_ITEM
since the comments are automatically copied to the derived object.
* Removed copy and pasted Doxygen comments from objects derived from
EDA_ITEM.
issue in cast to wxRect fixed (EDA_RECT accepts negative size, but not wxRect, so the wxRectcast is normalized now).
This fixes some bugs.
A minor other bug fix in Pcbnew.
* All objects derived from EDA_ITEM now have consistent hit test method
definitions.
* Remove double function calls from all classes derived from SCH_ITEM.
* Lots of Doxygen comment fixes.
* Remove unnecessary copy constructors from schematic and component
library objects.
* Add comment to class definitions where the default copy constructor
generated by the compiler was adequate.
* Add assignment operator to EDA_ITEM, SCH_ITEM, and all schematic
objects where the default assignment operator generated by the
compiler would not be adequate.
* Add check box and flag to ignore replacing the component reference
designator field.
* Fix a resizing bug when switching between the find and replace modes of
the find/replace dialog.
* Fix replace component reference designator field bug.
* Force rebuild of search list when schematic is modified and the replace
dialog is closed.
* Prevent finding the next item when the find/replace dialog is closed.
* Respect warp mouse pointer setting when closing find/replace dialog.
* Fix duplicate mnemonic control accelerator keys in find/replace dialog.
* changed all the RotatePoint() functions in trigo.{h,cpp} to take a double as the
angle, which is still in tenths of degrees for now.
* EDA_TEXT::m_Orient is now double, still in tenths of degrees (for a short while),
but the double means parsing files and saving them use a different format string.
++pcbnew
* DRAWSEGMENT::GetStart() and GetEnd() do not operate for S_ARC like they used to.
They are now simply accessors for m_Start and m_End. Use DRAWSEGMENT::GetArcStart()
and GetArcEnd() and GetCenter() for arcs. specctra_export.cpp was the only
source file dependent on the old behavior.
* DIMENSION::m_Text is now contained, not dynamically allocated.
* more kicad_plugin work.
* Enable replace toolbar button and menu entry.
* Improve find replace logging granularity.
* Fix find and replace dialog control hiding and disabling.
* Minor improvements to the SCH_FIND_REPLACE_DATA object.
* Move find collector list iterator into the collector object.
* Add visibility override flag to EDA_ITEM to temporarily show items that
are hidden during find and replace.
* Replace Eeschema find code with a collector based implementation.
* Fixed a search bug when all subsequent searches of an item would ignore
the remaining valid child items when an item had more than one child
item that matched the search criteria.
* Add SCH_FIND_COLLECTOR class to find all items that meet the specified
search criteria.
* Add SCH_FIND_COLLECT0R_DATA to keep track of information for all matching
items.
* Use collector to iterate over the list of items that match the search
criteria rather than trying to start at the last matched item.
* Remove unused searching methods from sheet path and sheet path list
objects.
* Add replace and replace all functionality to Eeschema find dialog.
* Push matching methods down to EDA_ITEM class so they can be used by
other derived objects.
* Add method to EDA_ITEM to test if item supports replacing.
* Add flag to find/replace data to support replace feature.
* Disable wild card matching check box when dialog is in replace mode as
wild card replacement is not supported at this time.
* The usual Doxygen comment and coding policy fixes.
the GetPosition() and SetPosition() changes. It also starts towards making m_Orientation
and m_Thickness fields private with accessors, but does not complete this latter goal.
* Fix bug in hierarchical searches using sheet path pointers which are
destroyed on every search. Use human readable path as last sheet found
in test to prevent comparison of deleted pointers.
* Fix a bug in SCH_COMPONENT::Matches() that would prevent searching for
pins if the search all fields flags was not set.
* Fix a bug in SCH_COMPONENT::Matches() to use the sheet path to perform
the comparison to the correct reference designator and unit number.
* Fix wrapping in sheet path and sheet path list MatchNextItem methods.
* Push search methods down to EDA_ITEM object so advanced searching can
be performed on all items derived from EDA_ITEM.
* Add virtual method to EDA_ITEM object to test if item supports replacing
text.
* Replace switch statement magic numbers in Eeschema socket connection code
with Pcbnew for improved readability.
* Remove external dependency for adding suffix to reference designator
fields.
* Make schematic field get and set position methods transform coordinates
relative to the parent component object that owns them.
* Make base text class get text method virtual so derived classes can
change the base string according to their individual requirements.
* Fix a problem with default place schematic item add in last commit.
* Correct all user strings and comments for the correct capitalization of
application names according to JP. They are KiCad, Pcbnew, CvPcb,
Eeschema, and GerbView.
* Add a note the the user interface policy about the correct capitalization.
* Remove sine and cosine look up tables from trigo.cpp and replace them with
sin() and cos() math functions.
* Large include file clean up to prevent header ordering dependency build
failures.
* Translate French code names and comments.
* Lots of coding style policy and doxygen comment fixes.
* Move various locate functions into the appropriate board item object.
* Unified best zoom for all frames derived from PCB_BASE_FRAME.
* Remove track.cpp as it is no longer needed.
* Dead code removal.
* Remove scary frame window pointer member from board item objects.
* Add draw bounding box to gerber draw item for debugging purposes.
* Changed <wx-2.8/xml/xml.h> to "xnode.h" in pcbnew_config.cpp to fix bug
when building against wxWidgets 2.9 and above.
* Convert broken wxXmlNode code to use XNODE.
* Overloaded XNODE constructor for creating child nodes.
* Translate French naming conventions.
* Translate French comments.
* Remove tabs from several source files.
* Coding style policy and Doxygen comment fixes.
* Create library collector class.
* Add clarification menu to library editor when multiple items are found
at the current position.
* Add get clarification menu text to all objects derived from LIB_ITEM.
* Add get menu bitmap for all objects derived from LIB_ITEM.
* Improve LIB_PIN bounding box calculation.
* Rename LIB_ITEM::DoGenCopy to doClone to match behavior defined in base
class EDA_ITEM.
* Minor class renaming for improved code consistency.
* Added less than operator to EDA_ITEM.
* Change all code references to pin sheet and sheet label to sheet pin to
more closely match the sheet pin object for improved code readability.
* Change menu and tool bar text from pin sheet to sheet pin for improved
user readability.
* Moved sheet pin place method to sheet pin object source file.
* Move last sheet pin stored state information into schematic frame object.
* Add Doxygen comments for the sheet pin editing methods.
* Add item clarification context menu to EESchema when multiple unresolved
items are found at the current cross hair position.
* Add collector class SCH_COLLECTOR for supporting multiple item hit testing.
* Removed bit wise masked filtering from schematic item hit testing.
* Removed all old hit testing functions and methods scattered about the
EESchema source code.
* Move terminal point test function into SCH_SCREEN object.
* Fixed bug in terminal point test when terminating a bus to a label.
* Define the < operator for sorting schematic items.
* Add area calculation method to EDA_Rect item.
* Add method for returning an item's bitmap for menu display purposes.
* Add method for returning an item's menu text for menu display purposes.
* Changed EDA_ITEMS container from boost::ptr_vector to std::vector.
* Factor coordinate string conversion code from EDA_DRAW_FRAME to function
CoordinateToString().
* Change EDA_ITEM set flag function to set flag bits using logical or
instead of assignment.
* Add clear flag function to EDA_ITEM to clear flag bit using inverted
logical and.
* Factor change schematic text type code out of switch statement into
a single function call.
* Schematic text orientation function renaming improvements.
* Lots of small coding policy changes to updated files.
* Move schematic wire and bus break code into schematic screen object.
* Move schematic test for dangling ends into schematic screen object.
* Remove left over debugging output in schematic screen object.
* Remove unused file eeschema/cleanup.cpp.
* Fix bug in schematic line object hit test algorithm.
* Fix a string concatenation compile error added in r2752.
* Rename class WinEDA_BasicFrame to EDA_BASE_FRAME.
* Rename class WinEDA_DrawFrame to EDA_DRAW_FRAME.
* Rename class WinEDA_DrawPanel to EDA_DRAW_PANEL.
Rename EDA_Rect::Inside to EDA_Rect::Contains ( EDA_Rect::Inside( const EDA_Rect& aRect ) was very ambiguous )
Fix some Doxygen warnings and erroneous comments; Add comments.
* All library component object editing is now performed with the ojbect
except LIB_PIN (coming soon).
* Added TRANFORM class to handle coordinate transforms.
* Remove old transform matrix functions.
* More file renaming to align them with the other component library
object file names.
* Fix hot key bugs in library editor to disable edit keys while an item
is being edited.
* Fixed bug when cancelling rotation of text and field objects while
being moved.
inches and mm, the industry is crazy enough to force us with mixed
design. For example I routinely use imperial units for track size and
clearance, but drilling is strictly a metric issue...
So I added a little parser to recognize a suffix specification in the
unit text boxes... so you can put in things like:
1in (1 inch)
1" (idem)
25th (25 thou)
25mi (25 mils, the same)
6mm (6 mm, obviously)
The rules are: spaces between the number and the unit are accepted, only
the first two letters are significant.
As a bonus, it also recognize the period (.) as a decimal point
substituting it with the correct locale character (there was a wishlist
for it, IIRC). Most useful for number pad fans :D
* Make cancel button delete new pin instance.
* Make pin redraw correctly to prevent display corruption.
* Prevent edited pin from being move on next left button click.
* Change pin edit property dialog focus to pin name edit text control.
* Library component draw items now stored in Boost ptr_vector.
* Updated draw item object comparison to include greater and less than condition.
* Moved set parts per package code from component edit dialog to component object.
* Moved set alternate body style code from component edit dialog to component object.
* Tweaked component library file draw item sort order for improved file readability.
* Documented component object draw item sort ordering.
* Moved plot code to the appropriate library component and draw item objects.
* Fixed compiler type conversion warning in plot_common.h.
* Component library objects renamed for improved readability.
* Fields now move when selected in library editor.
* Add copy constructor to all library draw and library component objects.
* Added copy constructor to EDA_BaseStruct.
* Delete base screen in WinEDA_DrawFrame destructor to prevent potential memory leak.
* Fixed memory access bug when replacing and adding a component to library.
* Moved library component block manipulation code into component object.
* Removed all of the global variables used by the library editor main window object.
* The usual code cleaning and refactoring.