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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrey,

It should be fixed now, please check.

Regards,
Orson

On 05/24/2017 09:03 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:
> I was about to explode, but then noticed that if I select the whole
> footprint then the MOVE (press M) snaps to the closest point, either center
> of footprint or center of pad.
> 
> However, if I selected a pad without selecting the footprint and then
> pressed M, then it would snap to the center of the footprint, this is
> unexpected behaviour. When a pad is selected, I'd expect the move to snap
> to the center of that specific pad, not to the whole footprint.
> Can someone fix it?
> 
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Carlo Maragno <ste.maragno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Ok, could you point out how to achieve the same result on the last version
>> of kicad?
>>
>> I recompiled from master head but I wasn't able do drag a component from a
>> pad.
>>
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Carlo
>>
>> 2017-05-06 14:25 GMT+02:00 Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> Oh, now I see what you mean. There is a slight difference between the
>>> steps we perform to drag a component by its pad. You select a pad and
>>> start to drag it, and I select a whole footprint and drag starting near
>>> a pad.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Orson
>>>
>>> On 05/05/2017 05:36 PM, Carlo Maragno wrote:
>>>> Too bad! Here you can find a google drive folder with the two small
>>> video.
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy,
>>>> Carlo
>>>>
>>>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-AbX0GoNzEPRjFSY19qQ0JjeFE
>>>>
>>>> On May 3, 2017 10:15 PM, "Carlo Maragno" <ste.maragno@xxxxxxxxx> 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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