[scilab-Users] Xcos: blue connection lines/wires do not snap to grid

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 18:39 +0100, Crypto a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Scilab 5.2.1-3 debian packages running here, taken from the standard debian 
> repositories.
> 
> There appears to be a problem with how Xcos draws parts and aligns the 
> connection lines to the grid.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1.) Run Scilab and then open an Xcos demonstration file, e.g. the RLC_circuit 
> (the following description relates to this file).
> 
> The parts and connection lines of the circuit are matching/aligning to the 
> grid, I would think.
> 
> But there are some blue connection lines which do not. Instead, they run in 
> slight "ramps", e.g. the GND connection wire to the bottom left, and the two 
> blue wires running to the MScope to the right.
> 
> Also, the blue connection wires sometimes poke into the white connection spots 
> of the parts, this happens e.g. with the current sensor and the voltmeter, but 
> also with the vertical inductor and capacitor.
> 
> This seems to be related to how Xcos scales/zooms the GUI representation of a 
> component and aligns it to the grid.
> 
> When I select a component I can resize it with the mouse, but there is no way 
> for me to scale it using the grid, i.e. no matter how I scale the component it 
> never "snaps" to the grid so I never know if I have scaled it correctly. There 
> also is now way of reverting the component to 100% of its original size, and 
> there is no option to scale/zoom a component by equally increasing size in 
> both x and y direction (like with a square - sometimes programs offer to zoom 
> in such a way by holding down the STRG button).
> 
> These are not really terrible bugs, but something that risks the prettyness of 
> how Xcos displays circuits ;-)
Hello

Thanks for your feedback. It is appreciated!
Could you open bug reports ?
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/
(a bug per issue)

Thanks!
Sylvestre


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