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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:40:46PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I took a look at this patch and it looks pretty good.  I had to tweak
> the border and the proportion settings of some of the controls to get
> them to align properly with the rest of the dialog controls.  Also, you

The dialog editor is *really* difficult to use with only a 1024x768
screen. Glade has the same problem, they are probably designed for
bigger screens. That, and me which have no idea on how control layout
works in wx... it's quite different than the gtk one.

> forgot to uncomment the date field in TITLE_BLOCK::Format() so the date
> wasn't getting saved in the new pcb file format.  I went ahead and fixed
> it so there is no need to submit another patch.  One thing I do want to

It must be escaped!

> suggest is rather than use wxDP_DEFAULT, we might want to consider using
> wxDP_DROPDOWN for the wxDatePickerCtrl.  On Windows, wxDP_DEFAULT uses a
> spin control to individually set each date field (day, month, year)
> which doesn't feel as user friendly to me as the drop down calendar used
> on GTK and OSX.  If there are no objections to this, I will go ahead and
> make the change and commit this patch.

No problem with that *but* be careful that some styles are supported on
some platform and vice-versa... for example the drop down is not
supported on Mac, according to the docs. Also the spin is not supported
on gtk (it asserts) even if it's not said in the docs:(

Maybe it's better to keep it on default (unless there are report of this
working properly everywhere)

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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