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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/9/2013 3:49 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> On 12/07/2013 01:42 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> I have just committed a small change to the testing branch (r4529) to
>> the Pcbnew footprint viewer that will allow the main toolbar to be
>> dockable.  I would like some feedback about how well saving and loading
>> the window state between session works on various platforms before I
>> start to do this to all of the KiCad application main frame windows.
>> The wxAui stuff was put in place a few years ago with the intent that
>> all of the fancy layout features would be enabled.  Since that hasn't
>> happened I thought I would start working on it incrementally rather than
>> get carried away an create a lot of problems.  When you have some spare
>> time, please test it and let me know if there are any major issues.  I
>> don't have wxWidgets 3 on my Linux partition and no access to OSX so
>> feedback from those users is very important since I cannot test those
>> platforms.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> It is a great idea to have dockable toolbars. I tested it with wxWidgets
> 2.8/Linux and the freshest wxWidgets 3.0 and in general it works fine
> and the position of toolbar is saved.
> One major problem I stumbled upon is that while using wx3.0, I somehow
> lost the toolbar and now I cannot recover it. It could be an issue of my
> window manager, but anyway - it could be good to have a menu where one
> can toggle toolbars visibility.
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 

Hey Orson,

You should not be able to close the footprint viewer tool bar.  I
intentionally have the close button disabled.  If you managed to close
it, then there is a bug in wxWidgets.  What platform and wxWidgets
version where you using when this occurred?  If I can duplicate it, I
might be able to fix it.  As I apply this to the other KiCad apps, I
will add menu entries to show tool bars that have been closed.
Unfortunately the footprint viewer does not have a menu so I may have to
do something about that in the future if we want to be able to hide the
tool bars.  Thanks for the help with testing.

Cheers,

Wayne