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.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > (Ruth, I think you meant to send this to the entire list). > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <r...@ivimey.org> > Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema selection appearance > To: <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> > > > 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 <s...@kipro-pcb.com> 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 >> KiCad Services Corporation >> https://www.kipro-pcb.com >> +1 530 302 5483 | +1 212 603 9372 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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