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Re: Patch for hand-modifiable issue date

 

What about an additional button in the dialog, like one of those [...]
buttons you see next to a file entry field, but this one next to date.
When clicked it stuffs current date into field.
?

On May 18, 2013 6:23 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> As discussed before, this add *manual* date changing in both eeschema
> and pcbnew. I simply added a field in the page box and removed what
> remained active of the automatic date change machinery. The I/O part was
> actually already there (commented out).
>
> This helps who need to handle the document date; it does *not* handle
> the modification automatically, i.e. you have to enter the date
> manually. But manual date is better that no date at all.
>
> Two things I've doubts on:
> 1) The OnChange events in the dialog... I feel they are not necessary
>    (as already discussed) but I added one anyway for the field. The
>    performance hit is not-existant, anyway.
>
> 2) Why the VCS people have issue for the auto date change on pcbnew and
>    not on eeschema? It seemed to me than on eeschema the autochange was
>    still functioning (but I'm not sure, it's a very busy period this...)
>
> Also bzr diffed the whole form builder files for eols... I hate when it
> does that. I hope that soon the 'problem' will go away (xml files are
> somewhat poorly diffable anyway)
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
>
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