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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Thanks Jean-Pierre,

All your recent work looks good, hotkeys, all of it.

I hope you can spend some time testing pcbnew on a test board which has 
overlapping modules, and can get a feel for the new behavior of my 
PcbGeneralLocateAndDisplay() work. In my case I had a big footprint, a 
PC104 mounting site, which included the connector, and the 4 widely 
dispersed mounting holes. Of course other footprints/modules will need 
to go on top of this footprint, even on the same layer, because the 
interior of the PC-104 footprint is hollow.
So that was a good test case for the new code. However, there are 
several places where we should be switching to the new 
PcbGeneralLocateAndDisplay() and away from Locate????(). Hotkeys which 
do a "move", "rotate", etc. This way we will get for free the 
"multiple item under the mouse" support. Also, you will have to decide 
if a left mouse click should be required to "select" the item before the 
hotkey can be used. Just remember that a person with a board like mine 
is likely to have an entirely different experience with the software 
than a simple board.
I will need to get back to laying out my 420 footprint board and I will 
be spending less time on Kicad in the near future. So hopefully 
somebody else can step in and complete what I outlined with the @todo's 
and my comment above.
I have to continue to make a living. I have gotten good value from 
Kicad, and I have contributed back very generously. But now economic 
reality is speaking. 

If there were a corporate sponsor of a specific enhancement, then I 
would be available for hire.
My future contributions will not diminish to zero, but proportionally 
speaking, I have to get the work of my company done now.

Warmest regards,

Dick