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[Marco Mattila <marcom99@xxxxxxxxx>]

So the dialog should be added to block flip, too. I'll start working on
this.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:44 PM, jean-pierre charras
<jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>  --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
>
>
>
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