The behaviour you mention is really really common in most other
packages I've come across.
Often some visual cue is given to the different behaviours, such as a
different colour selection box as the region is dragged.
Agreed it should be in a separate patch if possible. :)
On 2 Jan 2016 22:27, "Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
gedau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gedau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Bert,
boundled with cycledrag comes a feature that's common in CAD
systems I used before PCB: direction of selection drag&drop
changes how selection works. "Positive" selection
(left->right, top->down) means "select objects that are fully
within the box", whereas "negative" selection is "select
anything that has any portion overlapping with the box".
While I was at the geometry fixes for cycdrag, I fixed a
seemingly unrelated bug that kept points detected within
negative boxes, rendering some of the selections defunct. When
applying the cycdrag patches, please grab r977 as well!
Regards,
Igor2
Hi Igor2,
I have applied the diffs r975 and r976 to the "home/bert/cycdrag"
branch in vanilla pcb.
Now I have to start testing ;-)
For diff r977 (implementing the "envelope" versus "intersect"
selection behaviour) I get the impression that this one is not
related to cycle-drag selection.
If added it may cause a breach of the principle of "least
surprise" if not fully grasped by the testers/reviewers.
I'd better put this one in a separate topic branch to be reviewed
on its own merits.
More testing to do.
Thanks for the diffs and kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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