Sorry for the delayed answer; I was on vacation. (You've probably figured this our already) Place in Room requires you to click on the room, not the parts. When you click on a room all the parts that are part of that room are brought to the room. When you move a room, all the parts go with it.
I don't think there is any way to control the cross hatching. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:26 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: [PEDA] Room Properties (Colors?) > > > I have just begun exploring the use of the Rooms feature, which is > tailor-made for a current board. I notice that the crosshatching which > indicates a room sometimes changes color, from a dark yellow to a > dark red. > Despite being pretty familiar with Protels oddities in the way of > mouse click > handling, I can't figure out what the pattern is. More directly, > I would like > to be able to turn off the hatching for the particular room in which I'm > working, to better see what's happening there. Also, I can't figure out > exactly how the Interactive Placement - Place in Room is supposed > to work, > whether the parts are supposed to be selected, or the room, or what. As > usual, the manual and the help text of of little help. Can > someone here offer > a basic tutorial on how to drive these things? > > Steve Hendrix > > ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: 253D71C73C739C4987AEECC8426847C6871B85F3 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *