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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 May 2010 15:19, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brian Sidebotham wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Sorry I've been quiet for a while, I've been extremely busy building
>> my rally car.
>>
>
> http links to fancy pictures, please.

No problem, here is a picture-heavy page:
http://www.valvers.com/Brian_S-StageRallyOpelManta-Diary
I have some open-hardware projects I want to do for it.

>> About a month ago I had a discussion with Wayne with regards to the
>> patch that is attached. I have updated the patch so that it applies to
>> the current testing branch.
>>
>> To refresh, this patch adds the ability to have a custom default
>> setting for component field names. Thus Field1 could instead be
>> Manufacturer, or any other chosen default which saves the user from
>> having to input this information for every component they create.
>> Currently the patch puts these defaults in the .pro project file. As
>> Wayne pointed out there are two problems here:
>>
>> (1) The .pro project file is probably not the best place to store
>> these default names.
>> (2) The defaults are currently edited from the eeschema settings
>> dialog, and therefore are in the wrong place for .pro project file
>> settings anyway.
>>
>> There are a couple of formatting issues with the code and the GUI
>> rules are not adhered to in this patch, so that needs cleaning up for
>> a start, but I wanted to get people's opinion on where these default
>> names should be stored.
>>
>> It would seem sane to put them in the eeschema options, this would
>> mean that the settings could be left in the current GUI placement.
>>
>> If everyone is in agreement, or abstains then I'll tidy up the GUI
>> implementation and change the patch so that the options get saved
>> along with the eeschema options. I'll also tidy up the code
>> formatting.
>>
>
> The feature sounds very useful.
>

Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully I'll finalise it next week and get
it out of the way.

Best Regards,

Brian.