X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.4 at av02.lsn.net Message-ID: <560801D2.7010302@ecosensory.com> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:48:50 -0500 From: John Griessen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Schematics editor, moving all interconnected elements References: <1443354080 DOT 675 DOT 6 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> In-Reply-To: <1443354080.675.6.camel@ssalewski.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com On 09/27/2015 06:41 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > I think for the user it would be nice if it would be possible to move > blocks of interconnected elements. That sounds really useful. A speedup. Positioning groups close to others, or with a good balance to how much space is left on a page would become easier than box selecting. Here's another idea for a "select all interconnected" function: Have it work in a radius. Have that radius be defined in a pull down menu. Have it be modifiable to add to the selected set also, as in "select all interconnected". Then you could do one or two selections of connected AND within-a-radius and get a circuit area you want without any worry over a couple of nets going on connected to more and more circuitry. The combination of "select all interconnected" with a radius would mean the radius could be fairly wide and left the same for a user preference and just one mouse click would get what you want most of the time, if not, two.