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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good points, I'm especially excited about 1), our pcb edges are usually
footprints, so I'm always working inside a footprint, which is continuously
getting selected.

Cheers


On Jul 21, 2017 18:34, "Piotr Esden-Tempski" <piotr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > On Jul 20, 2017, at 4:44 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> [SNIP]
> >
> > AFAIK, when moving a single footprint, the anchor point is either one of
> its
> > pads or the footprint origin, the nearest candidate point from mouse
> cursor.
> >
> > Perhaps the algorithm should be slightly modified to use the pad if the
> mouse cursor is inside a
> > pad, and the footprint origin if the mouse cursor is inside the
> footprint (obviously), but not
> > inside a pad.
> >
> > It could be a more intuitive behavior.
>
>
> Very good idea, usually if I click on a component I do not want to move it
> by the pad unless I explicitly want to do that. Your solution is definitely
> better than the current behavior.
>
> On the component and general item selection topic.
>
> 1) If a component is very large in the current zoom level it should be
> ignored. It makes it very difficult to select small components that end up
> on the opposite side of a large component. It is also very unlikely the
> user will want to move the thing that is not even visible at the moment
> because it is 10x the size of the viewport. :)
> 2) Add the option to use a button to flip through potential selections.
> Having to use the mouse to select the component I meant from a list of
> candidates is really annoying. Other software packages have a nicer
> behavior for this: select a component and allow swapping through candidates
> using the right mouse button (this could be a keyboard shortcut too) and
> then confirm with another left click. (a good example is how the package
> with a bird does that, this is one of the few things I miss from using that
> software on daily basis. :) )
>
> I hope this is useful in some way.
>
> Just a few of my own 2c regarding the component selection behavior. :D
>
> Cheers,
> Piotr
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