SET CONTEXT context

Morten Leikvoll wrote on Thu, 12 May 2016 08:45

On 25.04.2016 14:18, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

In reference to the support thread "Bug, Breaking a polygon

(7.5.3)",

there is a need to cleanup the SET CONTEXT command.

 

I want to run a script that adds all the context menus I want for

my

work. This involves menus for schematic, board, library (both

symbol and

package, part may not yet have any). Now, addressing this is

pretty

awkward.

 

Since the context object is pretty flat (a UL_WIRE can exist in

all

those 4 contexts) I have to enter each editor to actually set

these.

schematic and board is rather easy, but setting library context

menus

from a general unknown context is not that straight.

 

Also, there are at least one missing objecttype; polygon.

 

This is why I want to suggest separate objects for all these

contexts.

How it's done is not important, but you should be able to set any

context menu from any context. A suggestion could be to add

support for

optional .brd/.sch/.pac/.sym extension to the objecttypes.

 

I'd like to add more objecttypes, as I see the potential for new

interesting context functions.

 

The board or schematic background

The board/sch itself could enable a context menu for stuff like opening

 

space vertical or horizontal, or even inserting stuff. The problem is

if

the catch factor is 0, and eagle grabs nearest item when right

clicking.

Maybe right clicks could be an exception.

 

A Group

It would be nice to do context functions on a group. Currently the

selected group highlight is removed when you rightclick. Does it have

to

be like that? If not, a group context can easily be implemented.

These suggestions all get my vote. I had a need for a background context

menu just the other day but I have forgotten what I was trying to do now so

can't elaborate....

I didn't actually know you couldn't do group operations in a context menu

function, I'd just assumed you could use ingroup() in the ulp and it would

get everything from the most recently grouped objects, if it doesn't that's

quite disappointing....

In addition, how about dynamically generated sub-menus in the context menu?

So one example where this would be useful, I currently have a "View

Datasheet" option on my context menu which opens the datasheet of a part in

my default browser. If there were multiple documents listed (with a

suitable separator) in my datasheet attribute, for example, a datasheet, a

package drawing, etc then I could have these appear as different options in

a sub-menu.

Also it would be nice to be able to assign custom icons to context menu

entries too and maybe a way to assign keyboard shortcuts and display the

shortcut on the menu item.

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Morten Leikvoll wrote on Thu, 12 May 2016 08:45

On 25.04.2016 14:18, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

In reference to the support thread "Bug, Breaking a polygon

(7.5.3)",

there is a need to cleanup the SET CONTEXT command.

 

I want to run a script that adds all the context menus I want for

my

work. This involves menus for schematic, board, library (both

symbol and

package, part may not yet have any). Now, addressing this is

pretty

awkward.

 

Since the context object is pretty flat (a UL_WIRE can exist in

all

those 4 contexts) I have to enter each editor to actually set

these.

schematic and board is rather easy, but setting library context

menus

from a general unknown context is not that straight.

 

Also, there are at least one missing objecttype; polygon.

 

This is why I want to suggest separate objects for all these

contexts.

How it's done is not important, but you should be able to set any

context menu from any context. A suggestion could be to add

support for

optional .brd/.sch/.pac/.sym extension to the objecttypes.

 

I'd like to add more objecttypes, as I see the potential for new

interesting context functions.

 

The board or schematic background

The board/sch itself could enable a context menu for stuff like opening

 

space vertical or horizontal, or even inserting stuff. The problem is

if

the catch factor is 0, and eagle grabs nearest item when right

clicking.

Maybe right clicks could be an exception.

 

A Group

It would be nice to do context functions on a group. Currently the

selected group highlight is removed when you rightclick. Does it have

to

be like that? If not, a group context can easily be implemented.

These suggestions all get my vote. I had a need for a background context

menu just the other day but I have forgotten what I was trying to do now so

can't elaborate....

I didn't actually know you couldn't do group operations in a context menu

function, I'd just assumed you could use ingroup() in the ulp and it would

get everything from the most recently grouped objects, if it doesn't that's

quite disappointing....

In addition, how about dynamically generated sub-menus in the context menu?

So one example where this would be useful, I currently have a "View

Datasheet" option on my context menu which opens the datasheet of a part in

my default browser. If there were multiple documents listed (with a

suitable separator) in my datasheet attribute, for example, a datasheet, a

package drawing, etc then I could have these appear as different options in

a sub-menu.

Also it would be nice to be able to assign custom icons to context menu

entries too and maybe a way to assign keyboard shortcuts and display the

shortcut on the menu item.

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