wishlist: eeschema block select for hierarchical sheet pins
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Committed
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Low
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Jeff Young |
Bug Description
Problem: selecting a lot of hierarchical sheet pins can be time consuming, since the block selection on hierarchical sheet pins seems not implemented (or does not work).
Using shift+leftclick or ctrl+leftclick works, but needs to select the pins one-by-one and can be tedious when you modified the schematic and you have to delete or move a lot of pins.
In current version CTRL+click and SHIFT+click act the same way on sheet pin selection.
Wish 1:
Enable the block selection on hierarchical sheet pins.
Wish 2:
Have shift and ctrl work as in "list" selection: clicking on a pin item and shift-clicking on another would select all the pins between them on the border of the hierarchical child sheet. The default behaviour could be "clockwise", so changing the order of the selected two mostly inverts the selection.
Any of the two wishes solves the problem.
P.S.: ctrl-clicking on an item behaviour is good as it is now.
Possible problems: without a selection filter to choose if you want to select or not hierarchical sheet pins, block selection could lead to "strange" behaviours, for instance when you want to "block select" a part of the schematics and get a multiple selection of components, wires and some hierarchical sheet pins.
Cheers,
Dino.
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Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.99.0-
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.2
libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2s zlib/1.2.8 libidn2/0.16 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libidn2/0.16) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.18.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,
Boost: 1.69.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
Curl: 7.52.1
Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 with C++ ABI 1010
Build settings:
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Turns out this is caused by a bug in the selection tool which fails to find sheet pins because they're not in the view.