Moving locked items
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am selecting parts on an area to move them. This area has some locked items on it. When I hit M, to move them the following popup appears:
"Selection contains locked items. Do you want to continue?"
Yes | No
If I click Yes I will move locked Items, which is Ok.
But If I click No, it should move only the non-locked parts.
I guess this can be improved like:
"Selection contains locked items. Do you want to move them too?"
Yes | No
The user can always hit Esc to cancel the move command. We don't need a popup for that.
However, I think the user should move only non-locked parts by default. This will avoid the annoying popup on the move command.
So, to keep the flexibility, I think a different shortcut may be used for moving locked parts.
My suggestion would be:
- M for moving normal (free parts only)
- Ctrl-M (Ctrl, Shift or Alt) to move parts ignoring the lock footprint flag.
Right now using.
Application: kicad
Version: 5.0.0-fee4fd1~
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,
Boost: 1.65.1
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.58.0
Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
In 5.1 Move will only move non-locked parts. If you want to move locked parts, unlock them first. (Multiple atomic commands make for a smaller and easier to understand GUI.)