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[Piotr Esden-Tempski <piotr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Orson,

I have compiled the current master and tested out the footprint selection.

> On Aug 1, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 07/21/2017 11:34 PM, Piotr Esden-Tempski wrote:
> [snip]
>> 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. :)
> 
> Implemented, I look forward to getting some feedback.

Thank you for the patch. The selection is much easier to use. I see that large footprints are being ignored as expected.

> 
>> 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. :) )
> 
> Tom has not advertised his recent patch, but watchful users may have
> noticed that the disambiguation menu displays numbers now. The numbers
> allow to quick select the desired item from the list using keyboard.

I have to work on a design to give further feedback if that is sufficient or if a “rotate through candidates” button is still necessary. Having a keyboard shortcut for the selection candidate is definitely a great improvement.

Cheers,
Piotr