1 Topic by rvamerongen (edited by rvamerongen 2023-03-18 15:55:08)

Topic: Requests and a few questions

Dear All/Developers

I am pleased that I found QET for the MacOS and I like it. So far so good.

Between my regular job, I am drawing/converting several old hand drawn and printouts of electrical schemes using QET. The originals are not available anymore, but the schematics are needed for quality control documentation and insurance.

Doing this, I notice some, ’short comings?’, that can make designing more streamlined; at least for me. Maybe a discussion worthy?

Rotation of a selection
When I select a group of items and want to rotate the whole selection now it rotates each element or item individual; what I like to request is that when I want to rotate the selection that it rotates the whole selection as one item.


Creating groups
I like the user collection, and would love to create a group of element and shapes ( together ) and save them in the user selection for reuse. Now I have a separate project with some ‘groups’ that I can copy and paste, but having them under user collection would be great


Project Tab’s shortening question/request
Maybe already in there but not discovered yet, but could it be there a preferences item thats toggle the ‘Project Tab’ file name to a short version; like just only the Project Name instead of a Project Name + the complete filepath. Then when hoovering over the Project tab it shows the complete path and with CTRL click on the Tab it shows like the ‘Finder’ the path as an submenu.


Moving elements and shapes using the keyboard arrows
Not sure if it is a bug, but when having a element selected using the keyboard arrows it moves the folio but not the element; not expected.


Conductors
Creating my own conductors with color and text and have them stored globally.
I would love to have the possibility that I can choose in the “edit conductor’ dialog my own wire/conductor and apply to the selected conductor.

Moving the wire icon anywhere along the conductor line
When having the conductor line some times the wire icon is ar the wrong place obscuring other elements or shapes. Is this possible to move that wire icon anywhere along the line? See image

Thank you for reading.

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Re: Requests and a few questions

Ouch.
The one I wanted to write about first is....


A Folio duplicator and a copy/move into another project.

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Re: Requests and a few questions

rvamerongen wrote:

Ouch.
The one I wanted to write about first is....


A Folio duplicator and a copy/move into another project.

Easy

on folio you want to copy to another project, new project need to been open..

Ctrl + A // select all
+
Ctrl + C  // copy selected

select new open project in the tab bar


Ctrl +T  // add new folio
+
Ctrl + v  //paste the selection

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Moving the wire icon anywhere along the conductor line
When having the conductor line some times the wire icon is ar the wrong place obscuring other elements or shapes. Is this possible to move that wire icon anywhere along the line? See image

I think , insnt possible for single line, symbol is always in the middle of your conductor.

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Moving elements and shapes using the keyboard arrows
Not sure if it is a bug, but when having a element selected using the keyboard arrows it moves the folio but not the element; not expected.


Maybe is depend on keyboard you use, with an extended magic keyboard keyboard comportment is different if you use PC keyboard.

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Rotation of a selection
When I select a group of items and want to rotate the whole selection now it rotates each element or item individual; what I like to request is that when I want to rotate the selection that it rotates the whole selection as one item.

Not possible yet.
https://qelectrotech.org/wiki_new/roadmap
Possibilité de tourner un groupe d'éléments intelligemment.

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Re: Requests and a few questions

11:44 - How I do it now. But it doesn’t copy underlaying ( Folio ) information?

11:50 - For now I use a small line with two connection and connect the conductor to those connection dots to move the wire symbool around

11:53 - I use two different keyboards (iMac / MBP ), I will check later another KB and with different keyboard settings.

11:54 - okay, I will check your roadmap.

Thank you for your reply.

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https://qelectrotech.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1315

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Re: Requests and a few questions

scorpio810 wrote:

Moving elements and shapes using the keyboard arrows
Not sure if it is a bug, but when having a element selected using the keyboard arrows it moves the folio but not the element; not expected.


Maybe is depend on keyboard you use, with an extended magic keyboard keyboard comportment is different if you use PC keyboard.

Here on Mac mini m2 with Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad arrows keys works only in élément editor for moving selected parts or primitives, but not in diagram for moving elements...
https://qelectrotech.org/forum/viewtopi … 9643#p9643

BTW, if you have a trackpad in settings enable gesture. Or magic pad.

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Please try last mac package: qelectrotech-0.100.0-r7844-
on https://qelectrotech.org/download_mac.html

https://git.tuxfamily.org/qet/qet.git/c … ab24ecabab

On Mac OS X, the ControlModifier value corresponds to the Command keys on the Macintosh keyboard, and the MetaModifier value corresponds to the Control keys. The KeypadModifier value will also be set when an arrow key is pressed as the arrow keys are considered part of the keypad.

http://srinikom.github.io/pyside-docs/P … spectratio

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Re: Requests and a few questions

No difference with using the arrow keys. Using the arrow keys in the element designer, there it works.

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Strange, it's moving well here on Mini M2 with Magic keyboard extented azerty or else in  X86_64 VM with azerty PC extented keyboard with physical arrows keys. So only work in last devel 0.100.0 version!
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/mailm … /33054359/
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktext … quests/291

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