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Re: Schematic capture: showing connecting line when moving name/value text

 

I’ve added the umbilical lines to the GAL renderer, although I won’t get a chance to merge it for a couple of days….

> On 20 Oct 2018, at 11:54, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it looks like it is missing in Version:
> (6.0.0-rc1-dev-983-gabe1ffabd), release build
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 12:43, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Le 19/10/2018 à 22:28, Henner Zeller a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> A long time ago, I added a little connecting line while moving the
>>> label or value in the schematic editor (BZR4686 now as git commit:
>>> 3132c70e54a0c5a61110eab7662e288398145c15 ), which is very helpful to
>>> not loose track of which label belongs to which symbol.
>>> 
>>> This feature seems to have gotten lost in recent changes (looking at
>>> git master branch), possibly due to overhaul of how rendering is done
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> It looks like this code is currently work-in-progress, so it might be
>>> just temporarily not working; but if this is on nobody's radar, I can
>>> have a look at resurrecting this feature.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>>  Henner.
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Henner,
>> 
>> I am guessing it was lost when Eeschema was converted to GAL canvas
>> rendering.
>> I am thinking major issues are fixed, but many "small" issues are still
>> here, so from this point of view, this is currently a work-in-progress.
>> 
>> Do not hesitate to fix it (or them).
>> 
>> --
>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>> 
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