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Source at commit 1d7eccb06b61f239b9671617488f33910286f0f1 created 10 years 1 month ago.
By Werner Almesberger, dump.c: add dumping of %iprint
1Major missing features:
2- add postscript output (partially done)
3- add option to include/omit helper vecs and frames (done for display, still
4  need postscript). Better idea: in PS, print the component 10x, 1x, and then
5  each individual frame 10x.
6
7Minor missing features:
8- reorder variables in a frame (can use text editor)
9- move items/vectors up and down the hierarchy
10
11Error detection:
12- eliminate duplicate instances
13
14Style and usability:
15- make column of entry field greedily consume all unallocated space
16- make menu bar consume all unallocated space instead of sharing it evenly with
17  upper toolbar
18- status area looks awful
19- add button with GTK_STOCK_UNDELETE for "undelete" to menu bar
20- maximizing pad name size creates uneven text sizes. Particularly "1" gets
21  excessively large.
22- pango_layout_get_size doesn't seem to consider rotation, so we currently
23  don't properly size rotated text.
24- when changing the part, we should automatically switch to a configuration
25  that generates any of its (non-global) elements
26- add zoom controls to top toolbar
27
28Bugs:
29- default silk width has no business being hard-coded in obj.c
30- undelete only works if not much has changed since the deletion
31- focus should return to canvas if nobody else wants it
32- whenever we call parse_* for input parsing, we may leak lots of expressions
33- can't edit measurement labels through the GUI
34
35Code cleanup:
36- merge edit_unique with edit_name
37- merge find_var_in_frame with similar mechanisms in expr.c and fpd.y
38- add regression tests
39- the drag logic is too complex. Better: let tool/instance just generate the
40  list of points at each stage, then handle the highlighting and hovering
41  inside a dragging module.
42- code organization is very poor. E.g., functions belonging to the different
43  items (pads, silk objects, vectors, etc.) should be grouped by item, not by
44  type of function, similar to how some things are now with gui_meas.c
45- eval_string_var should be merged into eval_var and the result should be a
46  struct num (?) that can contain both types. This also means changing all the
47  ops to handle/reject strings.
48
49Open decisions:
50- Q: should loop be (start, last) or (start, iterations) ? or start ... last ?
51- change vector circle color ? (also, highlight on hover ?)
52- Q: allow reassignment of vector names ?
53  A1: no: would cause confusion in GUI (vectors could become orphaned)
54  A2: yes. but we don't change the linkage.
55- Q: how do we handle stacks of objects ?
56  A1: we don't but we make it easy to avoid them, by giving a good zoom,
57      flexible selection, and by disallowing stacks of identical objects in the
58      first place.
59  A2: the current mechanism of selecting the next eligible object when clicking
60      on the same position repeatedly lets one cycle through stacks.
61- Q: add frame arguments ? (e.g., .frame pad(pin_num_offset) ...)
62  A: we can already approximate this by introducing an intermediate table that
63     sets up the arguments (provided that we don't consider vectors as well)
64- Q: should we make it a requirement to generate objects only once ?
65  A: yes.
66
67Future directions:
68- future: consider using cairo instead of gdk
69- live update of value when entering strings and expressions ?
70- advanced: non-standard solder mask
71- advanced: solder paste exceptions (subtractive, additive)
72- advanced: silk line width
73- future: consider editing non-canvas items (e.g., variable names/values) in
74  place
75- add a means to cut&paste and copy&paste objects, and perhaps also variables
76  (to move objects, we need to make sure all references are included. besides
77  that, copy&paste should be a slight variation of delete/undelete)
78- instead of blue screening, we could perhaps just skip the offending items and
79  replace them with a "here's a problem" marker that would still point to the
80  underlying object and allow repairs to be made
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