Is someone working on this bug or should I have a stab at it ? On 20 November 2017 at 21:26, Henner Zeller <h.zel...@acm.org> wrote: > Hi, > I am playing with polygons currently and notice that they only really > can be created, but not moved or copied. > > A move (m) creates a phantom polygon on the screen that is offset from > the polygon the same distance as the original polygon from the origin. > A similar glitch happens when attempting to copy a polygon. > > This indicates that the polygon does not really have a position that > is rooted in the e.g. top-left point, but that its Position is always > kept at (0,0). > This is confirmed when reading the board with the Python API and > printing GetPosition(). > > The dialog for the polygon (edit dialog) also shows that all positions > Start (x,y) and End (x,y) are zero. > > I think the whole confusion comes because the original idea of a draw > segment has the concept of a line which has a clear start/endpoint. So > maybe some SetStart() needs to be done whenever a polygon is moved ? > > I wonder if the concept of Polygons and Zones can be merged: both of > them allow to fill an area in the layer and have the same editing > controls with the control points (and zones work). > > -h
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