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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Just to let you know, I have just pushed a patch that implements
Jean-Pierre's idea for choosing the footprint drag anchor.

Regards,
Orson

On 07/20/2017 01:50 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> Hi Jean-Pierre,
> 
> On 07/20/2017 01:44 PM, jp charras wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> AFAIK, for me "old" issues related to the cursor and grid are fixed.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Sounds like a clever idea. Let's wait for some more opinions, but I am
> willing to implement this.
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 
> 
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