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Re: comment on the design of the "save before exit" window

 

Wayne,
thanks for the hint. Do you have any suggestion ? do you think it is
worth the effort? if you think so I am willing to explore how hard it
is?

fab.


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh
<stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/6/2012 8:54 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>> hello,
>> in attachment you can find a comparison between the Geda schematic
>> "save before exit" window, the eeschema one and the eeschema component
>> editor one. I might be wrong but it seems to me that in kicad the same
>> question from two different programs is wrongly asked. Because the
>> same answer require me to click no for one and yes for the other. Am I
>> wrong?
>>
>> It also seems to me that the Geda question is a little better.
>>
>> I was wondering if it would not be worth going for a "save" and "close
>> without saving" kind of question throughout the whole kicad suite. The
>> consequence of not doing that (like in the current kicad case) is that
>> for the same action you need to click yes and sometime no, according
>> to what the question is.
>>
>> regards
>> Fabrizio
>>
>>
>>
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> Fabrizio,
>
> Sorry it took me so long to respond.  I've been rather busy lately.  You
> are correct about message box.  However, until wxWidgets 3.0 becomes
> minimum version for KiCad this will be a fairly big effort.  The current
> message box does not support changing the button labels or including the
> extended message.  You would either have to create your own custom
> message box or pull the latest version of the wxMessageBox code from
> 2.9.3.  In the mean time, there are plenty of opportunities to improve
> the messages in many of KiCad's dialog boxes.
>
> Wayne
>
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