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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I though Tom mentioned he had done some work on this but that may have
been some other board editing tool.

On 11/25/2017 08:28 AM, Henner Zeller wrote:
> Is someone working on this bug or should I have a stab at it ?
> 
> On 20 November 2017 at 21:26, Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am playing with polygons currently and notice that they only really
>> can be created, but not moved or copied.
>>
>> A move (m) creates a phantom polygon on the screen that is offset from
>> the polygon the same distance as the original polygon from the origin.
>> A similar glitch happens when attempting to copy a polygon.
>>
>> This indicates that the polygon does not really have a position that
>> is rooted in the e.g. top-left point, but that its Position is always
>> kept at (0,0).
>> This is confirmed when reading the board with the Python API and
>> printing GetPosition().
>>
>> The dialog for the polygon (edit dialog) also shows that all positions
>> Start (x,y) and End (x,y) are zero.
>>
>> I think the whole confusion comes because the original idea of a draw
>> segment has the concept of a line which has a clear start/endpoint. So
>> maybe some SetStart() needs to be done whenever a polygon is moved ?
>>
>> I wonder if the concept of Polygons and Zones can be merged: both of
>> them allow to fill an area in the layer and have the same editing
>> controls with the control points (and zones work).
>>
>> -h
> 
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