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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Carlo,

Which revision do you use? I have just built the master branch
(096d9fbb) and I am still able to drag footprints either by the anchor
or pads.

Regards,
Orson

On 05/03/2017 10:15 PM, Carlo Maragno wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> While I was using an old developer version of Kicad (the build date was
> 28-2-2017), in pcbnew the move tool would grab the component from the point
> closer to the cursor when M was pressed. In other word, if the cursor was
> closer to a pad the center of the pad would become the grabbing point.
> 
> On the last developer release from the Ubuntu PPA, this behavior
> disappeared. I'm trying to figure out at which point it was deleted but as
> I was quite far away from master head this could be a very long process.
> Now I am at commit #bbaa29, made by Chris Pavlina.
> 
> Can someone of the developers point to me at which point this feature was
> removed?
> 
> My ultimate goal would be to make a push request in order to get this
> feature added again. So if someone could help that would be great!
> 
> Thanks again to all,
> Carlo
> 
> 
> 
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