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Re: Group selection idea

 

I like it. Give me a few days to review it and I hope it will get merged. You'll also have to make the groups persistent (save to file). Recursive grouping (group of groups) would be also an advantage.


Cheers,
Tom

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-------- Original message --------
From: Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/01/2017 12:41 (GMT+01:00)
To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Group selection idea

Hey again, What would be the chances of seing this getting into the
master branches on launchpad, what would I have to add/change to get it
there?

- Kristoffer

On 2017-01-11 21:59, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> Attaching Patch!
>
> ( Thanks Chris! )
>
> On 2017-01-11 20:51, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I hacked together a group selection concept looking like this:
>> https://youtu.be/eJp-aJ8i0H4
>>
>> It can assign BOARD_ITEM to a specific group for easier selection and
>> group manipulation. I am open to suggestions on changes, this is surely
>> not an optimal implementation.
>>
>> Useful when you may want to keep the relative position of something on
>> the board like maybe a RF layout etc.
>>
>> It cannot currently save the group assignments between sessions, since
>> that would require some changes to the file format. That would need some
>> agreement that this is indeed wanted.
>>
>> it also doesnt work on zones right now.
>>
>> ps: I do not now the best way to attach a patch file.
>> I added my feature
>> commit
>> git pull
>> fix conflict
>> commit
>>
>> Anyone have any steps on how to get one patch file for this, now I got
>> one patch file, and a merge.
>>
>> - Kristoffer

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