Colin D Bennett wrote: > Yes, it helps avoid non-text entities from inadvertently being picked > instead, but doesn't help select text when the snap-to-grid decides that > the nearest grid point isn't on the text anyway.
I guess, this never bothered to me because I tend to use a grid smaller than text size. But yes, you are right. Selection heuristics should extend to objects not exactly touching the current grid point. Would you mind file a bug report? > Yes, thanks. I do appreciate that feature of pcb; it's how I as a user > expect it to work. In contrast, I find that gschem's requirements if > you want to move a symbol to be really tiresome and it really slows > down my schematic editing. However, select-before-move is a paradigm used by almost all graphics applications I know. In the best of all worlds, both should methods work. > How to move a symbol in gschem: > > 1. Press and release the mouse button over the symbol you wish to move, > in order to cause it to become selected. (Hopefully it wasn't already > selected or you might have just selected an attribute like the refdes > or value instead!) IMHO, this is a feature, not a bug. It makes it easy to select an attribute inside a the boundaries of a a symbol. > 2. Wait for about 0.5 second. This is necessary or gschem thinks it's > a double-click. IMHO, it is not gschem, but your window manager who differentiates between double click and two clicks in a row. Try to fiddle with the mouse settings of your window manager to achieve faster timing. In gnome/metacity you can find this as "Double-Click Timeout" in System -> Preferences -> Mouse_Preferences -> General > 3. Press the mouse button, hold it, and drag the symbol. My preferred alternative to the two-click-drag method is the accelerator key [m]: 1) single click on symbol to select 2) press [m] 3) move mouse This can be done at any speed. :-) ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
