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ID:902
From:Dave McGuire <mc...@neurotica.com>
Date:Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:51:04 -0400
Subject:Re: [pcb-rnd] mark: cleanup proposal
in-reply-to:900 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
On 09/17/2017 10:50 AM, gedau@igor2.repo.hu wrote:
> thanks for the answers, I have a better picture on how our users use the
> mark. Here's my proposal for the cleanup/bugfixes:
> 
> 1. we should distinguish between user placed marks and automatic marks.
> Whenever there's an user placed mark, only the mark related actions
> should remove or move the mark. In other words, if the user explicitly
> placed the mark, side effect of non-mark-actions shouldn't change the mark.
> 
> 2. drag&drop-like operations: for those mouse actions that start with a
> click then move then release, if there is no explicit user mark, the
> code should place the mark at click and remove it after the release.
> 
> 3. multi-click, non-drag&drop-like operations shouldn't ever change the
> mark. (There are too many ways such an operation can end it would be
> very hard to make it work like 2.)
> 
> This means if you want to use the mark for your line length/orientation,
> you would need to manually place it when starting to draw the line.
> 
> Thoughts?
 
  That sounds good to me.  As a related aside, it might be useful to
have multiple user-placed marks, perhaps numbered.
 
            -Dave
 
-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
 

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