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Re: Henner's component chooser for CvPcb...

 

Man... just now that I've made a great icon for cvpcb... I personally like
a lot cvpcb. it is one of those things that make KiCad good !

my 2c

Fabrizio


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 2/23/2014 1:55 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:34:49PM +0200, Vesa Solonen wrote:
> >> Just throwing an opinion here, I think functionality of Henner's fine
> >> component chooser would make an immense usability enhancement for CvPcb
> >> footprint selection.
> >
> > Addon to the opinion: junk the whole cvpcb program and set the
> > footprints directly in eeschema :D
> >
> > Anyway the same 'mechanism' could be applied to footprint selection,
> > I agree. I fear there is some/a lot impedance mismatch with the internal
> > data structure, however...
> >
>
> This has already been discussed and it slated to happen after Dick's DLL
> work is complete.  This task will be simplified once both the schematic
> and board base code can be run from the same process.  That's why it
> hasn't happened yet.  But getting rid of CvPcb has agreed upon a long
> time ago.  Given Henner's excellent work on the component selection
> dialog, I have all the confidence that he would do a fine job on a
> footprint selection dialog.
>
> Wayne
>
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