I apologize for overlooking the existing drag capability, but I want to use the opportunity to animate a more standard GUI modification by the awareness that new users like me may have a hard time getting used to KiCad!
A more standardized way of behaving would be that by default a drag done on a component does just that dragging the symbol or padstack on which the drag is performed and connections with it! The marque 'lasso' as it turns up currently should _only happen_ when the drag is initiated above clean deskspace (nothing to select)! It should not by default result in a question to move, but if a drag follows on one of the selected components the drag should be performed on all selected components! If shift or control is pressed: further refining of the selection should be possible! If a right click is performed: access to methods of the selected objects should be given, and applied to the whole selection as applicable! You catch my drift; I'm asking nothing new, just a standard GUI as widely adapted in Linux, Windows and Mac! On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Tobias Gogolin <[email protected]> wrote: > Your right I hadn't noticed the drag option yet! I had used move... > > Thanks! > > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > For example (and I couldn't believe it when I noticed!): >> > - when a component is dragged in a Schematic, its connecting lines get >> > disconnected! Didn't the program note that it was the users intention >> that a >> > trace connected to a certain pin of a component? Even if dragging now >> would >> > cause havoc on the looks of the connections, KiCad should never forget >> what >> > the users intention was! (unless of course the user gestures somehow >> that >> > that's what he wants to do (maybe a control move feature)) >> > - same counts for PCB layouts, and how difficult could it be to >> reconnect >> > the last routing segment or two and keep them connection to the pins >> they >> > were connected to before the move? Any arguments against that? The drag >> > Segment feature shows that it is possible, and has already been >> programmed! >> >> Not in my copy of kicad. Did you select Drag from the context menu? >> >> Regards, >> >> Robert. >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >> > > -- Tobias Gogolin Tel. Movistar (646) 124 32 82 Tel. Telcel (646) 160 58 99 skype: moontogo messenger: [email protected] You develop Sustainable Ranch Technology at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SURA-TECH an Open Source Electric Motor/Alternator at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Performance_Axial_Flux and an Open Source Motor Controller at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoBox
