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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

On 12/09/2013 04:25 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 12/9/2013 10:14 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> > On 12/09/2013 03:06 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > I am not really sure, but it was rather wx3.0/Linux. As I said - I
> > cannot recover the toolbar now, so I am not able to reproduce the issue
> > at the moment, but I am going to try again on a different machine.
> > My window manager does not display titlebars, neither
> > close/minimize/maximize buttons, so I just close windows by using a
> > hotkey and it could be the case. I will confirm it later.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Orson
>
> That's strange.  I'll see if I can duplicate it.  You can get the
> footprint viewer toolbar back by deleting the ModViewFramePerpective
> entry from the .pcbnew configuration file in you home folder.  This will
> return the footprint viewer back to it's default position and size the
> next time you open it.

Thank you for the hint. Now I am sure that I closed it using a hotkey, 
as in every other case (both wx2.8 & 3.0/Linux x64) it is saved & 
restored correctly. Also, I am not sure if it is possible with regular 
window managers, but if I close the pcbnew window before the footprint 
viewer, the position is not saved, but the previous one is used.

Cheers,
Orson