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[Edward Hennessy <ehennes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:41 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 19:56 -0700, Edward Hennessy wrote:
>> On Sep 23, 2013, at 1:47 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I saw that you've been making some changes to the way that selections work. 
>>> 
>>> At the moment I think selections are only used in gschem, and since they are a very GUI-oriented concept I don't think they really belong in libgeda in the long run. 
>>> 
>>> Do you have any thoughts and/or plans about moving selections wholly into gschem? 
>> 
>> The current changes are to make the dialog boxes non-modal.
>> 
>> The selection could be separated from the library, but I'm not sure of the effort required. Sometimes violating the logical separation can result in a lot less code. It would need to be looked into.
> 
> 
> Do you mean moving the ownership of the SELECTION object data into
> gschem, or the underlying GedaList class, of which SELECTION is an
> alias?
> 

I'm referring to selection functionality, not any specific class or struct.

Cheers,
Ed