Re: gEDA-user: selection changes in gschem

["joe tarantino" <joeft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haven't tried this out yet but have some questions:

- How close do you have to be to "grab" the object?
- Is it dependent in any way on zoom or the grid spacing?
- Once you have made the selection, is your "anchor" point highlighted in
any way (for relative move operations for example)?

I'm not sure the new behaviour (if I understand it correctly) is more
mainstream.  Many tools use the concept of selecting the bounding box to
grab an object.  There are times when this is actually easier and/or more
desirable (on a crowded schematic) than having to actually hit a component
of the object you are trying to select.

Just my $.02 worth.

Joe T

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using git HEAD gschem and the recent changes on how the
> selection of individual objects/components is going to trip up existing
> users.  Particularly when selecting text and components.  In the past
> you just had to click on the bounding box of an object to select it.
> Now you have to actually click on the object (such as a line or label
> inside a component to select the component).
>
> I like the new behavior as it is more mainstream, however, it is a
> non-trivial change that will confuse existing users.  There has already
> been one bug report on this new behavior:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2094571&group_id=161080&atid=818426
>
> Has anybody else played with git HEAD and what do you think of this
> change?  Did you adjust or is it an on-going pain?  I'm _not_ suggesting
> we change it back, but I want to prepare for when 1.6.x gets out there.
>
>                                                                -Ales
>
>
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