Jeff, This sounds like a new feature. Given that we are in a feature freeze and have plenty of work to do to get ready for the upcoming stable 5 release, lets hold off on this until the stable 6 development opens up.
Thanks, Wayne On 01/04/2018 07:16 PM, Jeff Young wrote: > Ehh… that probably need a bit of background. > > When you try to drag a corner of a track, Kicad always annoys you with a > selection disambiguation menu (because there are two segments connected > at the corner). Same for dragging a via with one or two tracks connected. > > This change fixes that by allowing tools to register filters which are > run by the selection tool (which shouldn’t know anything about their > specific semantics) before invoking the disambiguation menu. > > Cheers, > Jeff. > > >> On 5 Jan 2018, at 00:11, Jeff Young <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I’ve got a version of this up and running. >> >> So far I’ve only written one filter which works for dragging a simple >> track corner, or a non-fan-out via. But even that is pretty nice. >> >> I’ve got a TODO for a footprint filter for ctrl/cmd-E. It could also >> be used for Exchange Footprints and Show Local Ratsnest in case anyone >> assigned hotkeys to them. >> >> So should I stash this and wait for 6.0, or is this the kind of thing >> we’re still accepting into 5? >> >> Cheers, >> Jeff. >> >> >>> On 2 Jan 2018, at 13:10, Jeff Young <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> There’s a bug report[1] which complains that every time you attempt >>> to drag a track corner it asks you which track (when of course they >>> share the same corner). >>> >>> The SELECTION_TOOL shouldn’t know about this kind of stuff, though, >>> so I propose to add a client filter to >>> SELECTION_TOOL::RequestSelection(). >>> >>> Something along the lines of: >>> >>> SELECTION_TOOL::RequestSelection( int aFlags, >>> >>> std::function<void(GENERAL_COLLECTOR&)> aClientFilter ) >>> >>> Comments? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jeff. >>> >>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1503679 >>> [2] The SanitizeSelection() routines might also be candidates for >>> moving to this architecture. >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
