Recommendation is to avoid using the year nomenclature as this
information is already encoded in the git repo. Avoids needing to
repeatly update.
Also updates AUTHORS.txt from current repo with contributor names
This is useful when you want to copy text content out to some
external program (or put it in a text item/box).
I'm not sure it's possible to intuit exactly what a user wants,
as you will often want to copy items as the real items, and sometimes
as text. While KiCad might be able to make a smart guess, external
programs will have no chance!
This makes it easier to see which pins have alt modes
available. There is an option to turn them off.
The icon positions are chosen so they they shouldn't
interfere as far as possible:
* If the text is inside, the icon goes more inside
the body
* If the text is above/below the pin, it goes away from
the body
This means it won't collide with a symbol wall in
most cases, but some symbols with alt pins on opposing
sides may need to be widened if the icons are show.
Includes a rather fiddly refactor of the SCH_PIN painter
function, which needs quite a lot of massaging to allow
it to figure out where an icon would go. Quite a bit
of logic is broken out into smaller encapsulations with
less visible state to each chunk.
Icon modes for base-name-selected and alt-selected are
included, but only the former works due to information
being thrown away during the SCH_PAINTER tempPin
process.
Fixes: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/11069
This is a little more primitive than the pcbnew tool,
in the same way that the arc tool is also more primitive
(no interactive manager).
It works just about well enough to get the curves drawn,
but all these tools could do with some interactivity
in esschema and symbol editor.
Fixes: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/8828
Includes:
- Fix GAL to draw closed polygons in eeschema
- Add functionality to eeschema to draw arbitary polygons
- Update polygon item previews to have customisable edge colour
- Add new SCH_RULE_AREA class, derived from a poly SCH_SHAPE
- Add SCH_RULE_AREA to paint and plot methods
- Add new rule area color preference to themes
Also fixes some issues with menus being owned by the wrong
tool.
Also removes "no xxx selected" warnings in submenus which
aren't show unless xxx is selected to start with.
Also fixes some un-translated strings (which happily
already exist elsewhere in the UI)
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/16454
[ADDED]: A panel to the schematic editor that allows quick access to all
of the items connected to the currently highlighted net.
This is an initial swag at implementing a full net navigator feature. For
now it only shows the currently highlighted net nodes. The incremental
net list advanced setting must be enabled in order to use this feature due
to performance reasons. There are still some issues with saving the panel
position which will be addressed in the future.
Initial code for serializing wxAuiPaneInfo settings to and from JSON have
be implemented.
The simulator has advanced considerably, and it is seeing lots of active
development, so make it a required part of KiCad. Additionally, the
build without the simulator has actually been broken for a while, so no
one clearly is building without ngspice right now.
As of wxWidgets 3.2, the wxWidgets event handler runs code after the
the client event handler that depends on the menu still existing.
Because there are potentially many paths to call ReCreateMenuBar from
within a menu event handler, let's just wrap this action in a CallAfter
to make sure it happens after the wx handler call completes.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/13149
