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[Rob Frohne <rob.frohne@...>]

Thanks Brian,

This behavior has bothered me a lot as well. I think your patches will 
improve things.

How do you make the boundary boxes visible? I have had a lot of trouble 
selecting things with the present method because I would have to guess 
what things might be in the selection box and I was usually wrong. 
Seeing the box helps a lot.

Also, I took a look at the code to see if we could have a control left 
click keep selecting items and add them to the selected list. I got 
sidetracked on this task, but I still think it would be a big help as 
well. It appears your skills are better than mine. You might want to 
look at it too. :-)

Rob

Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Brian Sidebotham included below]
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> The "bug" that I am seeing is that text fields are included in a
> component boundary box, even if they are invisible. This might have
> something to do with the fact that I have the "Value" field invisible
> in these components as I used Field 1 as the real component value. I
> think it makes more sense to exclude invisble text fields from the
> components boundary box. Some wiring was hard or impossible for me to
> select. I don't think this patch will have any negative effect, and
> invisible elements shouldn't be in the bounding box.
>
> The patch ignores all component fields that are invisble in 
> GetBoundaryBox()
>
> Thinking a bit further, do the fields need to be in the component
> boundary box at all? I can see places where I might have some fields
> that would stop me selecting wires because they increase the part's
> boundary box beyond the pin+graphic extents. I tried excluding all
> text fields, and it appeared to work fine for me, selection of
> everything was easy and the accuracy of selection should be best by
> excluding all text fields.
>
> I have attached some screen shots of the boundary boxes for the
> different options.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
>

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E.F. Cross School of Engineering
Walla Walla University
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College Place, WA 99324
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