Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

[Geoff Swan <shinobi.jack@xxxxxxxxx>]

   I very much like the idea of this patch :)

   I'll have a go at testing it.

   On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Thomas Oldbury
   <[1]toldbury@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

       I'd suggest making it an opt-out for people like me who like it as
     it
       is, but maybe I'll get used to it.

     On 21 March 2011 22:56, Peter Clifton <[1][2]pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
       Could someone give this a test and come up with any counter-reasons
       why
       this attached patch is NOT a good idea?  I vaguely recall a similar
       (or
       identical?) idea was discussed on the list recently?
       I was watching some students using gschem the other week, and
       noticed
       them struggling to move objects due to the fact they had to select
       them
       first. I wrote a patch which lets a drag action operate on whatever
       is
       under the mouse (selected or not).
       The user can override the mechanism and get a "normal"
       drag-selection
       box by holding shift when dragging. This also happens if the user
       drags
       on a blank area of the schematic.
       This seems to work here (in conjunction with some other cleanup I
       pushed
       to git HEAD).
       I'd appreciate a second pair of eyes on it though, as I just
   knocked
       it
       together quickly.
       Fwiw.. dragging of selected locked objects _does not_ work.. (never
       did
       as far as my brief skim of the code suggests.). I think we ought to
       fix
       that.
       --
       Peter Clifton
       Electrical Engineering Division,
       Engineering Department,
       University of Cambridge,
       9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
       Cambridge
       CB3 0FA
       Tel: [3]+44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
       Tel: [4]+44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)

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