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Re: [RFC] proposal of adjusted netlist dialog

 

Or you could add another button to the toolbar which always bypasses the
dialog. (And add it to the menu too! I don't know why so many actions are
toolbar-only in kicad.)

On 22 October 2014 12:43, Sergey A. Borshch <sb-sf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Sorry, I've lost first message in topic from Mark, so I paste my one as
> reply to this one.
>
> Mark,
>  while you are deep inside this dialog source code, is it possible to add
> a checkbox "do not show this dialog again, just silently generate netlist
> file after clicking to icon on toolbar"? Dialog still must be shown from
> main menu but not from toolbar after checking this checkbox.
>
>  Working on project I really _need_ this dialog first time only, all next
> hundred times until route is done I use this dialog to press "Generate"
> button only.
>
> On 22.10.2014 11:07, A. V. Dolganoff wrote:
>
>> As a user, the new one makes more sense to me, you've my vote.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     So I've been going through the UI to make it nicer.
>>
>>     The netlist dialog right now is a bit odd.
>>
>>     These marked up images show why, basically the functionality is
>>     grouped oddly on the dialog.
>>     http://i.imgur.com/0JK0d3g.png
>>     http://i.imgur.com/OrfrH14.png
>>
>>     My proposal is this new arrangement:
>>     http://i.imgur.com/sek8ebW.png
>>     http://i.imgur.com/izeCybB.png
>>
>>     Main change:
>>     wxNotebook turned into a wxSimplebook.
>>     A separate dropdown added to control the netlist formats to allow
>>     putting the add/remove buttons on the same line.
>>     A dropdown is nicer because in the end we are only selecting a single
>>     plugin to generate a netlist with anyway and this is more
>>     representative of the functionality.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Thoughts? Code wise I've already done it but feedback is nice :D
>>
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     Mark
>>
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>
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