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

[Crypto]

I have found that this is the same bug that has been reported here:

http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5676

I can confirm this bug, no need to enter an extra bug report.

Crypto.

Sylvestre Ledru wrote on Monday, 22. February 2010:

> 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
>