Selection tool should have a polygonal mode (lp:#1425419)
Original report created by Warren Young (wyoung-9)
The current block selection tools only work for rectangular selections.
Quite often, what I actually need instead is to be able to select odd
shapes. The polygonal selection tools you find in many other drawing
programs solve this problem.
A lasso type selection tool would be an effective alternative, though PCBs
and schematics tend to be geometrically regular, so I don't actually need
all of the freedom allowed by a lasso selection.
The current lack of such a feature often requires multiple operations to
move a block of related parts, purely because you want to leave something
behind that a rectangular selection would otherwise grab.
For the bot:
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor arm64 on arm64
Version: 8.99.0-1554-g8e349eedf0-dirty, debug build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.4
FreeType 2.13.2
HarfBuzz 8.3.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.4.0 (SecureTransport) LibreSSL/3.3.6 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.45.1
Platform: macOS Monterey Version 12.7.5 (Build 21H1222), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
OpenGL: Apple, Apple M1 Max, 2.1 Metal - 76.3
Build Info:
Date: Jun 19 2024 16:57:29
wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.84.0
OCC: 7.7.2
Curl: 7.79.1
ngspice: 42
Compiler: Clang 13.1.6 with C++ ABI 1002
Build settings:
KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_SANITIZE_ADDRESS=OFF
KICAD_SANITIZE_THREADS=OFF
Edited by Jeff Young