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[Tomé Veríssimo <tomeverissimo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,
when I came up with this idea, I was thinking of something like the
PCBNew highlight tool, but a dialog would be useful too, I think.

Simon,
a behaviour like the one you described seems fine as well.

Lorenzo,
what if the tool only highlights the nets in the current page. In this
case, you wouldn't need to mantain a list of all the nets in the
schematic, but load only the ones in the current page. Problem is when
you need to be constantly switching pages... We would have a giant
processing overhead... Any thoughts on this?


Regs,
Tomé

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Tomé Veríssimo



On 10 September 2011 09:49, Lorenzo Marcantonio
<l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Simon Schubert wrote:
>
>> What about always (optionally) highlighting all wires of a net if the
>> mouse cursor touches a label/wire of the net?  Maybe after some delay.  In
>> that case you don't need a specific tool, you just get it directly.
>
> I see a potential performance problem... in eeschema IIRC the netlist is not
> maintained on the fly but only during export (pcbnew instead has it online),
> so it isn't trivial to decide which part to highlight (think about complex
> hierarchies!)
>
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