R1862 Patch: Label orientation for Flipped Probe

When a probe is flipped, it's label's orientation is not horzontal. When simulating, if its value changs frequently, it's hard to see. Link can solve this but it needs extra work for user.



This patch fixes it:

Roy, an old aspiration, not satisfied due to agenda issues, in the component PROBE is that in the rotations the perpendicularity with respect to the cable is also considered to save space in the scheme.
How difficult do you think it is to add a pathch that does this?

Thanks in advance for all your contributions.

Defran wrote:Roy, an old aspiration, not satisfied due to agenda issues, in the component PROBE is that in the rotations the perpendicularity with respect to the cable is also considered to save space in the scheme.
How difficult do you think it is to add a pathch that does this?

Thanks in advance for all your contributions.

I'm not sure. Maybe an easy way to do this is add an shout-cut to rotate component? Or maybe we could rotate the component when creating.

But I think you can submit a feature request and left arcachofo decide it.

ya, I see...

royqh1979 wrote:

Defran wrote:Roy, an old aspiration, not satisfied due to agenda issues, in the component PROBE is that in the rotations the perpendicularity with respect to the cable is also considered to save space in the scheme.
How difficult do you think it is to add a pathch that does this?

Thanks in advance for all your contributions.

I'm not sure. Maybe an easy way to do this is add an shout-cut to rotate component? Or maybe we could rotate the component when creating.

But I think you can submit a feature request and left arcachofo decide it.

I've made a patch for R1862 to support create a CW/CCW rotated component:
- If created by ctrl+drag from the component panel, the component is CW rotated;
- If created by shift+ctrl+drag from the component panel, the component is CCW rotated.

When a probe is flipped, it's label's orientation is not horzontal. When simulating, if its value changs frequently, it's hard to see. Link can solve this but it needs extra work for user.

Applied a modified version of your patch at Rev 1865 & 1866.
Also changed:
- Fixed: flipped components rotates the wrong way.
- Probe labels are always horizontal also when rotated.
- Set label rotation center to text center instead of (0,0).
- Simplified label.cpp

I've made a patch for R1862 to support create a CW/CCW rotated component:
- If created by ctrl+drag from the component panel, the component is CW rotated;
- If created by shift+ctrl+drag from the component panel, the component is CCW rotated.

What Defran wants is a vertical Probe instead of 45º.
But maybe there are better solutions for this and it's not good to implement all kind of new features unless they are really needed/useful or really simple.

And now with Scripted Components it's easy to create things like a vertical probe.

Good idea, Arcachofo, I Will try to do it as soon as there is a latest trunk version without major errors, Thanks. I will report my progress...

Good idea, Arcachofo, I Will try to do it as soon as there is a latest trunk version without major errors, Thanks. I will report my progress...

Well... there are some stuff not documented.
I try to add information here:
https://knowledge-base.simulide.com/1-circuit/components/modular-components/scripted/scripted.html

But is is very basic and incomplete.
For example you can implement the voltage label calling: component.showValue( string val ) from the script.

Fine, Thanks for the info...

arcachofo wrote:Applied a modified version of your patch at Rev 1865 & 1866.
Also changed:
- Fixed: flipped components rotates the wrong way.
- Probe labels are always horizontal also when rotated.
- Set label rotation center to text center instead of (0,0).
- Simplified label.cpp

nice!

arcachofo wrote:What Defran wants is a vertical Probe instead of 45º.
But maybe there are better solutions for this and it's not good to implement all kind of new features unless they are really needed/useful or really simple.

It's really very simple(4 lines added), while it's really not very intuitive.

But I think this feature will be convenience for editing:
 - make the new created component selected after creation, so that we can adjust it using shortcuts.

Add this might also be useful:
 - add short-cuts for HFlip/VFlip/Rotate CCW

royqh1979 wrote:It's really very simple(4 lines added), while it's really not very intuitive.

Yes, but that's not what Defran wants.

royqh1979 wrote:But I think this feature will be convenience for editing:
- make the new created component selected after creation, so that we can adjust it using shortcuts.

Yes, that sounds useful and really easy to implement.

royqh1979 wrote:Add this might also be useful:
- add short-cuts for HFlip/VFlip/Rotate CCW

Yes, that could be useful.

What I ask for this...

So that within the rotations there is also the 90º rotation. I have developed a subcircuit to perpendicular probe to the cable, it works fine but it does not work by contact, it has to be conected and the voltage value has an immovable fixed position to the right.

Thanks for your attention.