| ID: | 898 |
| From: | John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com> |
| Date: | Sun, 17 Sep 2017 09:24:39 -0500 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] does anyone use the mark (ctrm+m)? (was Re: marker |
| in-reply-to: | 896 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
On 09/17/2017 03:55 AM, gedau@igor2.repo.hu wrote: > If anyone is using the mark, please let me know your use patterns. We should probably clean this up a bit, as in the current state > it looks like if it did random wierd things. > > My experience of the bugs: > > The mark is sometimes placed as part of a random operation, for no apparent reason. Some operations remove the mark at the end, > some cancels/undos also remove the mark. Others don't, and many operations don't place the mark. When an operation is messing with > the mark, the user set mark is moved, so the user loses the original mark position. This has taught users not to try to use the > mark as it randomly jumped away. I only use mark to measure things. Having a mark where something was moved from might be useful if it stayed there long enough to move something else and snap to it's position. So marking location of a drag start would not help if the next part to move in was dragged also... We don't have enough standardization of centroids in footprints to make the mark universally useful as a location of a substitute footprint. So, dropping all "semi-automatic" marking would be fine by me.
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