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[Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ruth, brilliant!  This behavior in commercial apps has irritated me for
decades.


*Drew Van Zandt*


On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:29 PM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> (Ruth, I think you meant to send this to the entire list).
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <ruth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema selection appearance
> To: <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
>
>
> This looks like an improvement on v5.1, anyway. Thanks!
>
> A side request if you're looking at the selection code: I would really
> appreciate it if selections were included in the history buffer and could
> be added-to and subtracted-from incrementally. It would make working with
> selections much easier!
>
> A related thing - if you make a selection and then try to perform an
> action on it, and then cancel the action (e.g. because a dialog appeared
> warning you of some condition), it is frustrating that the selection is
> cancelled.
>
> Regards
>
> Ruth
>
>
> On 20/11/2019 14:28, Ian McInerney wrote:
>
> I'm on the fence about the text highlighting, on the one hand not doing it
> does make it so the text is still easily legible when selected, but on the
> other it can be nice to show that it is part of the selected symbol. I
> think this would definitely be a case where making it a configurable option
> would allow people to experiment and see what they prefer.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:18 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 2019-11-20 05:48, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm tweaking the appearance of the new selection, what do you think?
>> > Except a change of color, transparency and width, it also skips
>> > drawing the fields and pin labels of components. I think it gives a
>> > much cleaner look with less clutter.
>>
>> This will always be a matter of opinion.  Right now the color is
>> configurable.  If you'd like to add additional configurable parameters
>> to the selection, you should place them in the Eeschema preferences and
>> allow the user to choose them.  Then post the patch for review.
>>
>> Otherwise, we'll end up bike shedding on this which would be nice to
>> avoid.
>>
>> Best-
>> Seth
>>
>>
>> Seth Hillbrand
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