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Re: [PATCH] Hide pin targets when properly connected

 

If you have the time and can get too it in the not too distant future,
then please do.  I think this would be a nice addition to your patch.  I
will go ahead and commit this patch along with the refresh patch that
goes along with it for now.

On 6/7/2015 6:14 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> I could add this too.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 05:44:09PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> One thing I did notice is that bus entries do not draw the connection
>> point so they cannot show their connection status.  It would be nice if
>> bus entries exhibited the same behavior.  I'm not sure how much work
>> would be involved.  I'm surprised I never noticed that before or AFAIR
>> no one has every said anything about it.
>>
>> On 6/4/2015 6:21 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>> Recently a proposal was made on Launchpad for pins to indicate when they 
>>> are connected: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1458083
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good idea to me; I recently asked on the list, and on both 
>>> list and Launchpad there is general agreement that the second proposal 
>>> (hide the pin target after the connection is made) was best. Here's a 
>>> patch to do this.
>>>
>>> IMO it makes the schematic look a lot cleaner in addition to helping 
>>> make sure the schematic is connected correctly :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
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