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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> Continuing on from the previous thread about a Layer Visibility
> dialog, or tool palette I started taking a quick look at what would be
> involved in a common object properties dialog. I created a quick
> dialog, which is modeless and floats above PCBNEW. It is quick for
> editing object positions, but that is about all it does at the moment!
>
> I got stuck actually, or didn't really know which way to head. I
> created a dialog using wxFormBuilder and I started adding wxPanels
> with the hidden attribute set to true. The intention was to make them
> visible when they are pertinent to the object type that is currently
> selected. However, this seems to fail as the panel is simply displayed
> at the top left of the dialog instead of part of the vertical sizer
> layout. I will have to investigate. If I manage to fix that I will
> generate a patch for anyone who wishes to have a look at it.
It would be very unusual to develop a dialog in this way. Normally you 
have to have a separate dialog window for each type of object that you 
want to inspect. It may be perceived as more work initially (and 
probably is not) but will be more maintainable over the long haul.

Dick