On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM, Jon Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > The core of the issue is how KiCad thinks about selection of objects > compared to most other software that deals with graphical objects that the > user interacts with. > > Most applications have the concept of a "selection set" that contains 0 or > more objects. You can select one or more objects, and then separately from > the action of selecting, you can do things to the objects. KiCad uses a > more "immediate" concept of selection -- you select an object at the same > time as doing something to it.
Hi Jon, Are you talking about the GAL canvases, or legacy? The GAL canvases do have a concept of the "current selection", which is what is used by actions, and the drag selection works a lot like a "normal" graphical program like Inkscape, for example. You can also use Shift-click to add items to a selection, before invoking an action. Invoking an action without a selection often has an additional special behaviour - select whatever is currently under the cursor and act on that. Generally, you see this in hotkeys, e.g. 'M', and this saves a lot of clicking if you only want to deal with one item. Cheers, John _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
