diff --git a/drawing_faster.md b/drawing_faster.md index cde4d2a..04bda37 100644 --- a/drawing_faster.md +++ b/drawing_faster.md @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ and are built as a series of small pull requests, one per feature. | 4 | [Element picker at the cursor](#4-the-element-picker-insert) | **Insert** | [#1052](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1052) | | 5 | [Shortcut bar](#5-the-shortcut-bar-s) | **S** | [#1053](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1053) | | 6 | [Customising the shortcut bar in place](#6-customising-the-shortcut-bar) | "…" on the bar | [#1054](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1054) | +| 6 | [Your own symbols on the bar, and its width](#putting-your-own-symbols-on-the-bar) | *Éléments* in the edit window; the bar's corner grip | [#1060](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1060) | | 7 | [Commands beside the selection](#7-commands-beside-the-selection) | Click something | [#1055](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1055) | | 8 | [Repeat the last command](#8-enter-repeats-the-last-command) | **Enter** on the folio | [#1056](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1056) | | 9 | [Command search](#9-command-search-ctrlshiftm) | **Ctrl+Shift+M** | [#1049](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1049) (merged) | @@ -238,7 +239,65 @@ in the bar's place: It edits the list for the kind of selection the bar was opened on (nothing, wires, or anything else). The palette below is not edited here; it is your -user collection (§4). +user collection (§4) — but you can put symbols on the bar itself, next to the +commands, as described next. + +### Putting your own symbols on the bar + +> **Status: pending.** This section describes +> [PR #1060](https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/pull/1060), +> not yet merged. Nothing here works until that lands — check the PR before +> trying any of this against your own build. This section will drop this +> notice once it does. + +The symbols you use all day — a fuse, a coil, a contact, a lamp, a motor — +can sit on the bar as icons beside the commands, so placing one is **S** and +one click. + +![The shortcut bar with its eight commands on the first row and five pinned symbols on the second: fuse, coil, contact, lamp, three-phase motor](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/images/drawing-shortcut-bar-pinned.png) + +Open the edit window (**…** on the bar with nothing selected). Beside +*Autres commandes* there is an **Éléments** (*elements*) column with a search +box. Type at least three letters of a symbol's name; the matches appear with +their icons, best first, as in the Collections search (§3). + +![The edit window with "diode" typed in the Éléments search: Diode, diode-tube, Diode bridge, Photodiode… listed, and the five pinned symbols at the end of the bar row](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/images/drawing-shortcut-bar-pin-search.png) + +| To… | Do | +|---|---| +| pin a symbol | drag it from the *Éléments* list onto the bar, or double-click it | +| pin the best match quickly | type its name and press **Enter** — the window stays open for the next one | +| move it along the bar | drag it, like a command | +| unpin it | double-click it on the bar, or drag it off the bar onto *Autres commandes* | +| keep the changes | **Terminé**, as for commands | + +Then, on the bar, **click a symbol's icon to start placing it** — the same +as choosing it in the element picker. Hover an icon for the symbol's name. + +Good to know: + +- Symbols can only be pinned to the bar you get with **nothing selected**. + With something selected, the bar is for working on that selection. +- Once at least one symbol is pinned there, the palette grid (§4) is no + longer shown under the bar — your pinned symbols replace it. The search + box is still there, and the list comes back as soon as you type. +- Symbols embedded in a project (*Imported elements*) are not offered: only + symbols from the QET, company and user collections, which exist in every + project. A pinned symbol that is later deleted from its collection simply + disappears from the bar. +- The **Barre de raccourcis** preferences page (§5) lists pinned symbols + by name among the commands, so you can reorder them there; **← Retirer** + unpins one. +- After **Terminé**, the bar reopens **at the mouse pointer**, not where the + edit window was. The edit window remembers the size you leave it at. + +### Making the bar narrower + +A bar with many commands and symbols gets long. Drag the small **grip in +the bar's bottom-right corner** (*Glisser pour changer la largeur de la +barre*) to the left: the icons wrap onto more rows as the bar narrows, and +the bar grows downwards to fit. The width is remembered — the bar opens at +that width from then on. Until you drag the grip, all icons stay on one row. --- @@ -377,6 +436,8 @@ are separate windows with their own keys. - The palette (§4) is always your user collection folder; there is no setting in the preferences dialog to point it elsewhere. +- Symbols can be pinned only to the nothing-selected bar (§6), and only + from the QET, company and user collections. - Command search, the shortcut bar and gestures only offer commands that have an entry in the Shortcuts preferences page. 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