Comment 23 for bug 594073

On 10/5/2016 3:23 AM, jean-pierre charras wrote:
> It is nice.
>
> However there are issue:
> * If a highlighted net has labels, there is a serious issue (perhaps because they have some flags set).
> * It does not work on complex hierarchies.
> Complex hierarchies are always very tricky, because each item is stored only once in schematic, and has different properties depending on the sheet path (reference for instance)
> It means one cannot store the highlight flag (on/off) just in a boolean.
>
> Minor issues:
> * Disallowing selecting a bus directly: OK
> * A net should be selectable by clicking on any item (especially labels) and labels should be highlighted (it is also a fix for bus)
> * Do not hard-code the highlight color.
>

I will add:

* Coding policy violations.
* Assign it a hot key. Constantly moving the cursor out of the drawing
area to select a tool from the toolbar is cumbersome.