LDCad 1.5 Beta 1 (win+linux)

[Roland Melkert]

I try to learn Trackball view rotation mode and I must say it's powerful and saves time when one can use it. However, it needs a free space (background visible) at the direction I want to turn to/from. This is not always possible, esp. if I need to zoom in for some detail editing. How do you handle that? Or can you reserve some modifier (like Alt) for this, instead of needing a background visible?

Like Philo and Owen wrote, the right mouse can be used for that, even during part dragging etc. And owen is right I might drop the left mouse behavior at some point in favor for multi selection.

LDCad crashed sometimes for me but very rarely and at random moments. What's the best way to provide you a useful information? Is a core file good for anything for you, for example? Or any debug mode I should turn on?

Was this during closing or when you clicked on a source window line as those are currently known issues. A core file is probably not usefull as I compile the releases with all possible stripping and GCC optimize level 2, resulting in virtually no debug info left. As for reporting the most important thing for me is a replication scheme, as it will be very difficult to find a bug other wise. But any pointers are welcome.

"Save file" operation is still silent, even in cases the save operation was not successful (trying to 'save' into the zip fie etc.). Can you add a notice to the status bar?

I did this on purpose thinking you have been warned when starting editing the part, it will display a normal fail message if the writable part can't be saved. But I suppose I can add a 'nag' message so you at least retain the option to disable it again.