Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Connecting Nets by hand

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> > This is a good point.  Commercial layout programs allow you to
> > double-click onto a trace and then edit its various properties.  How
> > difficult would it be to make PCB do the same thing, or at least allow
> > PCB to change the line width of the trace? 
> 
> Probably not difficult, just time consuming.  There's lots of little
> things like that that seem little but involve a lot of code fiddling
> to stitch them in.

I understand.  I've been looking at the PCB code myself over the last
few days.   It's pretty involved . . .

> > This is an interesting point.  I also am annoyed when I drag a
> > component & it drags the end point of all attached tracks with it.  Is
> > there any reason why this feature is needed or useful?  I can't think
> > of any.  Other layout programs allow you to move only the component,
> > and leave the tracks behind.
> 
> Shut off "enable rubber band mode" if you don't like it :-)

Heh.  Thanks for the tip!

Stuart