- Geometry Editor: the Path tool now has a new behavior: when key modifier SHIFT is pressed and the Grid is OFF, when the line is drawn and it is near the 0, 45 and 90 degrees, in each quadrant, then the drawn line will follow the nearest target angle (0 or 45 or 90 degrees) allowing the drawing of straight lines.
- some more work in the Excellon Editor - Drill adding
- some fixes in the image loader when clicking the an image that is in the list of previous loaded files
- a small fin in the SVG parser
- added a new Tcl command that is returning the name of the active object ('get_active') to accompany the 'set_active' command
- a small fix for the 2d graphic mode by replacing the q5agg matplotlib backend with the qtagg backend which should work with the Qt6
- in Distance Plugin made sure that the 'big cursor' (when is used) is black in color (visible in most situations)
- in Distance Plugin, for the 2D graphic mode activated the utility line
- fixed an issue in the Excellon Editor where selecting the drills did not highlight them but instead made them invisible (although the selection still worked)
- fixed an issue in the Gerber Editor where selecting one shape will auto-select all the shapes made with the same aperture
- fixed some outstanding issues from the PyQt6 port
- PEP8 fixes
- minor fixes
- updated the saving of Preferences to update the self.options too: the `Apply` action will update the self.options but the `Save` action will save the updated preferences to the file on disk
- attempting to add a feature in the text editors to autoselect all words in a document that are the same as the one that was clicked
- all the colors set in Preferences now have to be in the 8digits format RGBA (including the alpha channel as a suffix) - it is required to delete the current preferences files
- in Excellon Editor made sure that the tool diameter is always updated before adding a new drill (or drill array)
- changing units is not possible while in Editors
- changing units outside the Preferences will make no permanent changes
- deleting all shapes from the shapes collection (OpenGl graphics) will reset also the index in the collection data dict
- working on Milling Tool and Drilling Tool: made sure that the plugin UI is initialized only when the plugin (Tool) is run in order to avoid errors like (wrapped C++ objects was deleted)
- Gerber Editor - made sure that when simplification button is clicked the coordinates and vertex points field are cleared
- Gerber Editor - added a Beginner/Advanced toggle button
- Gerber Editor - added context menu to Apertures Table and also on row selection in Aperture Table, the area and vertex number fields are updated
- Excellon Editor - added a Beginner/Advanced toggle button; added context menu to Apertures Table
- Excellon Editor - fixed the Tools Table row selection handler
