Here's a patch, have a look at it, and if you're okay with the limitation I mentioned feel free to commit :)
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:35:54PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote: > I haven't tested it yet as I haven't written the patch yet. However, it > is possible to select the sheet by grabbing its label, and eeschema does > not allow sheet pins to be placed over labels, so the label should > always be accessible. > > I suppose you could force it, if you really tried, into a state where > the sheet cannot be directly selected, by putting the sheet pin as high > as it will go and then setting the text size very large so it overlaps > everything. I don't see a problem with that though. It pretty much has > to be deliberate, and you can still fix it by either setting the size > back down, or using block select to pick up the sheet. > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:24:03PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > I'm OK with this. By chance did you test it with a really small sheet > > size just to make sure that you can still select the sheet? That's the > > only potential issue I can see. > > > > On 9/5/2016 11:13 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > > The disambiguation menu makes it absolutely tedious to move a large > > > number of hierarchical sheet pins. Would a patch be accepted to make > > > hierarchical sheet pins automatically preferred when the items under the > > > cursor are only a sheet pin or a sheet? > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>From 1d37a85f275782176e85700bb5ebbd3c943037b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 01:01:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] eeschema: short-circuit disambiguation for {sheet pin, sheet} --- eeschema/controle.cpp | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/eeschema/controle.cpp b/eeschema/controle.cpp index ba5ec74..63cf272 100644 --- a/eeschema/controle.cpp +++ b/eeschema/controle.cpp @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ * * Copyright (C) 2004 Jean-Pierre Charras, [email protected] * Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> - * Copyright (C) 2004-2011 KiCad Developers, see change_log.txt for contributors. + * Copyright (C) 2004-2016 KiCad Developers, see AUTHORS.txt for contributors. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License @@ -150,6 +150,17 @@ SCH_ITEM* SCH_EDIT_FRAME::LocateItem( const wxPoint& aPosition, const KICAD_T aF { item = m_collectedItems[0]; } + break; + + case HK_MOVE_COMPONENT_OR_ITEM: + if( m_collectedItems.GetCount() == 2 && + dynamic_cast< SCH_SHEET_PIN * >( m_collectedItems[0] ) && + dynamic_cast< SCH_SHEET * >( m_collectedItems[1] ) ) + { + item = m_collectedItems[0]; + } + break; + default: ; } -- 2.9.3
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