![]() The contrast doesn't help when using the horizontal & vertical line tools. You might also look at the way they do the crosshair in the KiCAD 'eeschema' program - they have a choice of either a small thick crosshair with very short arms (think typical mouse cursor size) or a full screen width horizontal / vertical line that is a little thinner than the usual drawing elements, with a screen edge button to swap between them.įrom: ravas LibreCAD/LibreCAD Arthur Torrey Fri, 23:44:12 -0000 (UTC) The only real benefit I see to using the 'normal' crosshair is consistency in appearance, and that it sometimes can act as a 'guide' when moving in on a desired point - but I can live without those. The Youtube link is broken (removed by user error) so I can't see that, but IIRC you were basically suggesting making the crosshair a diagonal when using the H/V line tools, which seems like it would work. This is on Kubuntu Linux, and a laptop screen if that matters. I even tried doing a few 'dirty tricks' like setting the line color to be the same as the crosshair, and it still gave me a contrast. I have been swamped w/ other projects lately, so haven't had much time to play with it, but when I tried the contrast in the version right after you fixed it, (see previous messages for which one that was) it seemed to work pretty well even when using the horizontal and vertical tools that I tried. Just because I feel like sharing, here is a related theorem: One look could be lines coming from each corner that terminate on the snap point. (IIRC, there are also menu choices and hotkeys)įrom: ravas LibreCAD/LibreCAD Arthur Torrey Wed, 23:28:10 -0000 (UTC) Whichever mode you are in, the Icon shows a picture of the other one. To switch between them, there is a clickable icon on one of the toolbars that toggles between the style. In the schematic drawing portion of the program "eeschema" they have a choice between an 'X' crosshair and dotted horizontal and vertical lines across the screen. Not completely sure it would work as nicely in practice as it sounds like it would in theory, but seems worth looking at.Īs one option on how to make it easy to change the crosshair shape - I use KiCAD a good bit for doing schematics and wiring diagrams. Even if it did overlap, that could almost always be fixed just by panning a bit in any direction. It would have minimal odds of significantly overlapping with either existing drawing features or what you are trying to add. (I'm assuming by corner, you mean screen corners, it might be a problem figuring out what other points to use, and arguably less useful) I could see that being a very slick approach. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: What about a hotkey to toggle the appearance of the crosshair?Ĭhanging the color would be the most simplistic Subject: Re: Make crosshair change color to contrast w/ other drawing features? ( #550)Īlthough, I'm wondering if the added amount of analysis would be worth the convenience. įrom: ravas LibreCAD/LibreCAD Arthur Torrey Wed, 23:00:11 -0000 (UTC) I hadn't thought about changing the crosshair orientation to diagonals, but that could be a neat approach - except of course when trying to add a 45* diagonal. As a result it's slower but I tend to be much more of a mouse / menu based user. I'm not a big user of hotkeys, I use enough different programs that I'd just as soon not remember what key combo does what in which program. It should be implemented as an option "Icons: Light / Dark" (drop-down toggle) into "Widget Options" window, and take effects on-the-fly (or after restart app).Įven more, as LibreCAD icons has a limited set to 6 colors ("black" & "light gray" edges + "green", "dark grey", "light gray" & "white" fills) it might be possible create "Icons Colors" preferences list in "Widget Options", similar to "Application Preferences > Graphic Colors" preferences list.I don't know what the best approach would be, though obviously making it 'automagical' would be nice. Just go to icons directory and run this script to replace black color in SVG fileĪs icons are SVG, and parsed by Qt during each launch, could it be solved internally by dynamically replacing colors during parsing icons SVG files? Then there would be no needs to create separate "dark icons" set. LibreCAD icons could be easily converted to dark theme icons using simple bash script.
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