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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:37:55 -0900
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] does Select->Select all found refer exclusively to
 things fouond via netlist?
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Peter Clifton
(petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that the find hotkey will also not follow any connections
> where rat lines are not shown.

Correct, and this is the correct behavior for find, because it starts
from a single point (the hovered point) and traverses from there to
find all connected copper.  It's the wrong behavior for the Find
button however, because
the context of the window containing that button indicated that we're
finding things associated with the net (or one of it's associated
pins/pad), not with any particular point.

>
> I belive this was at least partly intentional (although the reasoning is
> somewhat unclear to me), but is also fairly linked to our implementation of
> the connectivity search.
>
> Always up to date rat lines could solve the problem, but I belive some
> utilise the feature where you can erase all rats, and re add specific ones
> from the netlist dialog box.

I often don't want to see most of the rats and delete the ones I'm not
ready for.  It would be annoying for them to get added back in
automatically.  I don't know if it would be useful as a modal behavior
or not.

>
> The idea to change search start point based on node clicked sounds good to
> me. If clicking on the net in general (is this possible?), perhaps invoke
> only the purple highlighting?

Purple (associated with 'found' flag) is what the Find button gives
now.  I'll look at changing this to start from the selected node.

> Shorted connections are the aspect which needs careful consideration
> whatever we do... The way things behave in that case really needs to be
> clear and predictable.
>
> Igor had a nice min graph cutting based approach for identifying the
> probable location of a short in PCB-rnd iirc. That kind of thing might be a
> nice pre ratline adding step, that would avoid pcb offering ratlines which
> further entangle and short out two (or more?) nets.

Mincut is great but probably shouldn't be the default behavior,
because it isn't guaranteed to be correct about where the problem is.
However..

> Our existing logic for highlighting the bad connection doesn't work well,
> and this was the reason Igor started working on the min cut solution.

... the existing approach might be worse, I don't know.

Britton