gEDA-user: PCB refdes selection problems... solved

[joe tarantino]

I've seen the same behavior going back several revisions.  At some point
certain refdes text becomes unselectable.  Sometimes restarting the program
helps, sometimes I can get it back by turning layers off and on as you
describe.

A related issue I've seen is that pcb sometimes has a preference for
selecting text on the opposite side of the board from the one I'm working
on.

And having silkscreen text in the area that is not a refdes can also make
the selection problem worse.

Joe T

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Traylor Roger <traylor at eecs.oregonstate.edu>
wrote:

> Guys,
>  Thanks for the ideas and hints.  I apparently bumped into
>  something that starting everything to work again.  It
>  seems that turning off all visible layers and then silk
>  only enabled me to grab the text.  I moved a few refdes,
>  then enabled the other usual visible layers and it now
>  works like before.  Strange.
>
>  Surely there is some subtle bug under this, but characterizing
>  or replicating it would be tough.
>
>  Whatever, for now, back to work. Thanks for the help.
>
>  Roger
>
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