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[Evan Shultz <evan.shultz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many options would be better than the current selection color, which as you
mentioned is not noticeable using the default color palette.

Your proposal above sounds good to me. A single color for multiple
elements, if it catches the eye, would be better than not being able to
find the highlighted element. Especially during cross-probing from Pcbnew
where the location of the schematic elements may not be known and dense
schematic can easily hide the highlight.

Candy-striping may show a selection/highlight well, but with such thin
wires in Eeschema it may not be useful. When it does work, it's often
better than a single selection/highlight color for colorblind users as well.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:04 PM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Brightening the selection in Pcbnew works well because the background is
> dark and most of the colours are reasonably dark, so there’s a good bit of
> room to make the difference between selected and not selected noticeable.
>
> This is less true in Eeschema, mainly because of the white background.
>
> I’ve been thinking of using the magenta colour for both net highlighting
> and cross-probing, and then using the bright red we use today for
> cross-probing for selection.  This does mean that selections would no
> longer have differentiated colours within (between components, wires,
> etc.), but I think might work better than the not-very-noticeable state we
> have today.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> (I also thought about putting a yellow drop-shadow under selected items so
> that they “glowed”, but this is going to put a lot more overhead on OpenGL
> when large chunks of the schematic are selected.)
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