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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

This needs with some other patches on the list. To use this patch, you
need the "CCW rotate" patch and the "delete tracks" patch to be
applied first.

There is a branch with just this patch (which will conflict with the
above mentioned patches) at
https://code.launchpad.net/~john-j-beard/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/drag_tracks

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:47 AM, John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a really basic concept patch for component dragging with
> tracks ('G') in pcbnew GAL.
>
> It uses the same dragging mechanism as legacy for modules and pads. If
> it's not desired to continue to use that code for the time being, at
> least this provides the TOOL_ACTION hook and outlines where new code
> would have to be added.
>
> However, the drag.h interface is pretty small, so I don't think using
> it is too objectionable for the time being.
>
> For dragging traces, the much nicer PNS dragging is used, but this
> doesn't work with a block selection. I'm not that familiar with the
> PNS, so I'm not sure where to start to do that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John