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[jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 17/10/2010 12:32, Marco Mattila a écrit :
> Good point. However, sometimes it might be used also for moving footprints within a board. In that case there may be things that
> should not be moved. Maybe another checkbox (include locked modules) could be added to the dialog that comes up after block move,
> for example. It's not coming up for flip block, though.
>
> Marco
This is a better idea.
All block operations must have this checkbox.
Move, Copy and Flip block of the whole board are transforms useful to guys who want to print/plot on only one page the Front and 
Back layers of a board.
Many hobbyists do that.

> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:46 AM, jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Le 17/10/2010 00:05, Marco Mattila a écrit :
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I have previously submitted a couple of patches that prevented direct manipulation of locked modules in pcbnew. However,
>         within a
>         block it remained possible to, e.g., move a locked module. This patch prevents locked modules from being added to the list of
>         selected items in a block operation. The downside of doing this in the Block_SelectItems function is that it also prevents the
>         block copy of locked items, if for some reason someone happens to need that.
>
>     I am not sure this is a good idea:
>     main usage of block move is to move the whole board, for instance to append a second board
>     or center it on the page (for printing...)
>
>
>     --
>     Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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