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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
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| Documentation | ||
| bitmap2component | ||
| bitmaps_png | ||
| common | ||
| cvpcb | ||
| demos | ||
| eeschema | ||
| gerbview | ||
| helpers/tools_to_build_newstroke-font | ||
| include | ||
| kicad | ||
| new | ||
| packaging | ||
| pcb_calculator | ||
| pcbnew | ||
| polygon | ||
| potrace | ||
| resources | ||
| scripting | ||
| scripts | ||
| template | ||
| tools | ||
| .bzrignore | ||
| AUTHORS.txt | ||
| CHANGELOG.txt | ||
| CMakeLists.txt | ||
| COPYRIGHT.txt | ||
| CTestConfig.cmake | ||
| Doxyfile | ||
| HOW_TO_CONTRIBUTE.txt | ||
| INSTALL.txt | ||
| README.txt | ||
| TODO.txt | ||
| copyright.h | ||
| license_for_documentation.txt | ||
| notes_about_pcbnew_new_file_format.odt | ||
| uncrustify.cfg | ||
README.txt
KiCad README
============
For specific documentation like Compiling, GUI translation, Old changelogs see the
Documentation subfolder.
Files
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AUTHORS.txt - The authors, contributors, document writers and translators list
CHANGELOG.txt - This years changelog (see for previous years Documentation/changelogs)
CMakeList.txt - CMAKE build tool script
COPYRIGHT.txt - A copy of the GNU General Public License Version 2
CTestConfig.txt - Support for CTest and CDash testing tools
Doxyfile - Doxygen preferences
INSTALL.txt - The release (binairy) installation instructions
TODO.txt - Todo list
uncrustify.cfg - Uncrustify code formatting tool preferences
version.txt - The current stable released version
Subdirectories
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3d-viewer - Sourcecode of 3D viewer
bitmaps - Menu and program icons
bitmap2component - Sourcecode of a small application to create a footprint or a component from a B&W bitmap
this component or footprint has just graphic items that show the bitmap
CMakeModules - Modules for the CMAKE build tool
common - Sourcecode of the common library (common functions shared across whole suite)
cvpcb - Sourcecode of CvPCB, tool to link components with footprints sourcecode
demos - Some demo examples
Documentation - Compiling documentation. Translating the GUI, old changelogs etcetera.
eeschema - Sourcecode of the schematic editor
gerbview - Sourcecode of the gerber viewer
helpers - Helper tools and utilities for development
include - Interfaces to the common library
internat - Internationalisation files
kicad - Sourcecode of the project manager
packaging - Files for packaging on Windows and Mac OSX
pcbnew - Sourcecode of the printed circuit board editor
polygon - Sourcecode of the polygon library
resources - Resources for installation, freedesktop mime-types for linux
scripts - Helper scripts. For building, sourcecode packaging, font setting, pcb adjusting.
template - Project template(s)