On 7 February 2014 10:31, jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Le 07/02/2014 09:22, Henner Zeller a écrit : >> Hi, >> While moving a field text (REFERENCE, VALUE and such) in the >> schematic, it is possible to loose the visual sight to which component >> it belonged to, in particular in tight spaces (which is typically the >> time when you need to start moving labels around). At least once I >> swapped the visual designators with different components .. creating a >> mess. >> >> So while moving such a label, I think it would be good if there was a >> visual indicator to which component that label belongs to -- a simple >> line would do. This would only be drawn while moving is in progress; >> see attached image how this could look like. >> >> I have prepared a patch that does that (the image is done with this patch): >> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/master...show-belongs-to-edge-while-moving-labels >> >> As the way to draw differs for not-moving vs. moving (there is an >> additional line), the very first draw operation with XOR doesn't make >> sense, as the line hasn't been there before. Likewise the opposite >> when stopping moving. So here I keep a little state in the SCH_FIELD >> component that keeps track if the _last_ draw operation was seeing >> IsMoving(). I haven't found if there is a better way within the >> framework to better get informed about these transitions. If so, >> please point me how to implement that more elegantly. >> >> And as usual, here the patch download link: >> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/master...show-belongs-to-edge-while-moving-labels.diff >> >> cheers, >> -henner > > Good idea. > This feature was existing in Pcbnew, but not in Eeschema. > May I ask you to have a look to our coding style policy > (see Documentation/coding_style_policy.pdf) before submitting a patch. > > Thanks for your interest in Kicad. >
This is a great feature, thanks for your interest Henner! Best Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
