On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Peter TB Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2008 06:02:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Some may not like the new "feel" of the selection mechanism. For >> instance, to select a component, the user must click on an actual >> object of the component (line, box, text, etc...) to select it. >> Clicking in the middle of the component where no object exists will >> not work. Some may prefer this mechanism, such as engineers that put >> text in the middle of their components, like "BOOT EEPROM," or "BANK >> 0," etc... > > Could I please get some feedback from people on whether this patch is > generally a Good Thing? It represents a major change to highly user-visible > and long-standing gschem behaviour, so I'm not keen on pushing it without > consensus.
As a very-non-heavy user of gschem, I find it sometimes annoying to try to select one object but another one nearby gets selected instead. Think of a big diagonal line passing by a few hundred pixels away (with the whole viewport inside its bounding rectangle) and a teeny tiny little line / arc / whatever that you want to select. For example, open this schematic: v 20080110 1 L 44300 49200 53300 43400 3 0 0 0 -1 -1 B 47200 45900 400 400 3 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 then zoom in until the whole box is somewhere in the viewport, but with the line visible and passing in the outfield, and try to select the box. If I grok ehennes' patch correctly, I think it's highly desireable! _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
