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Re: Need feedback on new way of pcbnew importing footprints

 

Patch committed in 6439. I like this a lot, it doesn't seem to break 
anything*, and it's fairly minimal in reach. Thank you!

*I also can't see any possible way it could have caused the reported 
library issue, that's surely unrelated.

-- 
Chris

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:10:04PM +0000, Jon Neal wrote:
> here is the patch:
> https://github.com/reportingsjr/kicad-source-mirror/commit/dd96d250321b17e0f8691d5623ea202f8762023c.patch
> 
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:03 PM Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > If no one has any complaints or suggestions then this patch is ready to be
> > included.
> >
> > I can generate a git diff with commit, author etc if needed, just let me
> > know.
> >
> > Also, I accidentally sent this to Maciej only earlier:
> > Simon Richter mentioned that doing a swap was a cleaner method of doing it
> > for a variety of reasons. It doesn't really have to be done that way, just
> > following his advice.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:55 AM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I asked about this a while back and got a little bit of feedback, I now
> >> have a patch for people to try.
> >> >
> >> > What this does is when you import a netlist (in GAL only though) it
> >> automatically spreads out all newly added footprints and it places them all
> >> in "selection + move" mode. So basically you import, close the import
> >> window, and immediately click wherever to plonk down the new footprints.
> >> >
> >> > I want to know if people like this method of importing (I think it is
> >> nicer than piling all of the footprints on top of each other wherever).
> >>
> >>
> >> YES!
> >>
> >> -a
> >>
> >>
> >>
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