GAL highlight net tool does not fire cross probe when pad is clicked

[Dick Hollenbeck]

GAL highlight net tool does not fire cross probe when a pad is clicked. I need this, I had added it to legacy pcbnew years ago and dearly miss it in GAL.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

Would you please confirm that this only happens for you when the
footprint is locked? I did some testing and the only time I see the
behavior you described is when the footprint is locked. When the
footprint is unlocked, the cross probing behaves as expected.

On 2/4/2016 3:09 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> GAL highlight net tool does not fire cross probe when a pad is clicked.
> I need this, I had added it to legacy pcbnew years ago and dearly miss
> it in GAL.
>
> ** Affects: kicad
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

[Dick Hollenbeck (dickelbeck)]

In revision 6538 it never fires on an unlocked footprint's pad.

I have 3307 pads on this board, I hope that is not too many for it....

It is for me, and that's why this feature helps me stay sane.

[Tomasz Wlostowski (twlostow)]

It only happens for the 'highlight net' tool, I will fix it.

For the moment, when you select a pad (when highlight net tool is inactive), cross probing will work just fine.

Tom

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Did this get fixed?

[Jon Evans (craftyjon)]

Yes, I think this is covered by the highlighting changes I made a few months ago