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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Dino,

I see a great value in a tool like this. KiCad needs a generic way to
modify properties for multiple items at once. Currently there are a few
tools tools (e.g. Set Footprint Field Sizes, Edit All Track And Vias)
that could be replaced by a powerful selection tool and a property editor.

For pcbnew, we are developing a selection filter tool [1] and an object
inspector [2,3] (a.k.a. property editor). I have not checked your
implementation yet, but perhaps there are code chunks that could be
shared between the tools.

Regards,
Orson

1. http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/4646/selection_filter.pdf
2. http://www.ohwr.org/attachments/4645/object_inspector.pdf
3. https://code.launchpad.net/~orsonmmz/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/properties

On 11/06/2016 06:44 PM, Dino Ghilardi wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I had to edit a lot of components in a schematic and doing it one-by-one
> was a tedious task without a chance to copy a field
> (as footprint) to many components in a single operation.
> 
> To make this task easier I've made a new tool that I'm using now. It
> makes easier to select a particular group of similar
> components and copy a field from one to others. Here are some features
> implemented:
> 
> -Shows the components in a 'spreadsheet-like' grid.
> -Can filter basing on one or more field values using a 'column filter'
> -It uses also regular expressions on fields to have maximum flexibility.
> -It has some 'easy' buttons to make easy to use the tool also for who
> does not know the regular expressions syntax.
> -Selecting a component on the schematic highlights the line for that
> component in the grid.
> -Selecting a component in the grid moves the cursor to the component in
> the schematic.
> -Columns can be moved and hidden.
> -Changes can be undone using the 'undo' function in the schematic frame
> 
> A video (no audio) of this tool is available at:
> https://youtu.be/QCMddxkKe8k
> 
> If it makes sense, I can start to 'beautify' the code (aka re-read all
> and check code style policy) and create a patch to send to the mailing
> list, so I'll wait to hear if it is a good idea to go on developing this
> tool or not.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dino Ghilardi.
> 
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