Release 0.0.8

ANNOUNCEMENT-0.0.8

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+Hi,
+
+it's time for the next release of Gerber Viewer, aka gerbv, 
+the "popup menu"-release.
+
+There was a couple of months since last release. The first two months 
+I didn't do anything, then I started some minor hacking. I have managed 
+to "recruit" a helping hand from my friend Anders Eriksson, who has 
+more experience in graphical stuff than I have.
+ 
+Graphical quirks fixed is:
+- zooming around the mouse pointer. This was probably the most requested 
+  feature and the thing I was most unpleased with. 
+- zooming several steps at once goes much faster. No calculation and
+  redrawing in each zoom step, but in the last step.
+
+When you click with the left mouse button on a layer button you
+get a popup menu with color selection, load file and unload file.
+That is on a "per layer-basis". The "global" "Open File..." menu is
+removed in favor for this.
+
+For the next release most of the ideas are in the feature request 
+database. One plan I have is to remove the Guile stuff. If you you
+use it, please get in contact ASAP. It wasn't really what I thought 
+it would be.
+
+Comments, patches and suggestions are, as always, very welcome. I have
+started to use the bug database and feature request database available
+through sourceforge. Have a look there if you curious what's going on
+or if you have any idea that you think should be implemented in gerbv.
+
+Homepage for gerbv is still http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/
+
+To download gerbv goto 
+	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/
+and grab gerbv-0.0.8.tar.gz
+
+To install the program do
+1. gzip -dc gerbv-0.0.8.tar.gz | tar xf -
+2. cd gerbv-0.0.8
+3. ./configure
+4. make install
+
+Interesting configure options are:
+--help          : Lists all options
+--disable-batch : Disable compilation of Guile/Scheme backends
+--prefix=<dir>  : Install from dir <prefix>
+
+
+What's new in 0.0.8
+- Added pop up menu with a right click on layer buttons with:
+  - color selection.
+  - load file
+  - unload file
+- Multi quadrant arc bug fix. Reported by Neil Darlow.
+- Zooming around mouse pointer.
+- Setting up a clock as mouse pointer when redrawing.
+- Zooming is done restarted if several zoom step in a row is requested.
+- Ovals were drawn as ellypses, not anymore. Hinted by Dino Ghilardi.
+- Multi quadrant arcs had severe bugs. Fixed now.
+

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 <h3>News</h3>
 <ul>
+<li> 2002-05-06 : 0.0.8 release availble 
+     <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/gerbv-0.0.8.tar.gz">here</a>.
+     Announcement is readable <a href="ANNOUNCEMENT-0.0.8">here</a>.
+
 <li> 2002-02-10 : 0.0.7 release availble 
      <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/gerbv-0.0.7.tar.gz">here</a>.
      Announcement is readable <a href="ANNOUNCEMENT-0.0.7">here</a>.
@@ -153,11 +157,11 @@ original authors (which are listed in respective files).
 <li> Scheme backend.
 <li> Disable backend at configuration time if you don't want to install Guile.
 <li> Start of a simple ps-generating backend.
+<li> Explicit setting of color on layer.
 </ul>
 
 <h4>What is missing:</h4>
 <ul>
-<li> Explicit setting of color on layer.
 <li> Gerbers definition of layers are ignored.
 <li> Proper documentation on how to interface the backend.
 <li> Proper documentation at all except a man page.