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Message #29363
Re: Move point on pcbnew
The attachments got scrubbed (probably too large), i'd recommend you upload
the videos to youtube or some other video sharing site.
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:07 AM, Carlo Maragno <ste.maragno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I done some tests, including a full system wipe and the behavior is still
> the same. I tried to compile 096d9f & c70adc and I got similar results.
>
> In the attachments you can find two video: the kicad_bug one was done with
> 096d9f while the kicad_working one was done on 7034ea.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlo
>
> 2017-05-03 22:15 GMT+02:00 Carlo Maragno <ste.maragno@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > 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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