On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:10:40 -0800 (PST) Oliver King-Smith <oliver...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> OK I see the error of my ways. I had to turn off the grid so I could > click on the refdes. This brings up a good point. Very often I have difficulty selecting small components and more significantly text in pcb, due to snap-to-grid being enabled. I usually have to go through the menus then and dial in a much finer grid so I can drag the text or component that I want to grab, but it's a pain to do this often. There are certainly many ways to improve this aspect of the user experience, such as a fuzzier picking algorithm (e.g., if the nearest grid point to the mouse cursor isn't exactly on any entity, but text element's bounding box intersects the grid X grid square centered on the grid point, then pick that text element). The recent discussion on improved grid handling would also improve this. For me, I would like keyboard shortcuts that quickly allow more useful grid size changes. I would never user "+5 mil"/"-5 mil" since if working on an Imperial grid, I would use only 100 mil, 50 mil, 25 mil, 12.5, etc. Thus useful shortcuts would be either direct selection of the four most common grids, or double/halve grid spacing. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
