← Back to team overview

kicad-developers team mailing list archive

Re: [PATCH] Schematic Cleanup: Split lines atjunctions

 

On  windows the current behaivior is;
   delete-key : delete whole wire
   backspace-key : delete current segment

If these are not working on all platforms, this needs to be fixed.

And there should be a hotkey to completely delete a wire with all nodes, perhaps clrl-delete.

There is no need to change the behavior of the delete-key since that functionality already is there on the backpace-key. Doing this is in my opinion a regression.

-----Original Message----- From: José Ignacio
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 3:46 AM
To: Simon Richter
Cc: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Schematic Cleanup: Split lines atjunctions

The current behavior is fairly annoying, you can't really know
beforehand how much the command is gonna delete, since collinear wires
are not always merged (only when drawing more traces, not when
dragging points), so sometimes it might delete just a single little
chunk of the line, or the whole thing. I guess you could say it makes
working with eeschema more exciting ;).

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

On 20.05.2016 00:25, Thor-Arne wrote:

Delete wire is on the delete button. and delete segment is on the
backspace key.

Ah, that makes (some) sense. To me, the behaviour of the delete key
looks fairly nonsensical, because it will stop at corners, but not at
junctions, while I'd expect "delete wire" to do the opposite.

This leaves me with a difficult problem though -- I need net ties to
actually generate different nets on both sides, so I need different
wires that aren't combined in order to get different netlist items, but
this makes the delete key behave differently for net ties.

Please do NOT change the behavior of the delete buton, it is used all
the time.

Hm, as said I don't find it that useful, because most of the time it
deletes a connection I still need, but leaves dangling segments. Would
it make sense to replace it with a "delete connection" functionality
that would never leave dangling ends?

This still means I'm going to redo this patch stack -- the structural
changes in the cleanup function still make sense IMO, but the logic is
obviously wrong then.

   Simon



_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp


_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp


Follow ups

References