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Re: footprint library table wizard: need testers

 

This is great!  Good work jp!

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 21, 2014, at 8:46 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I committed the first version of a wizard to manage the footprint
> > library table dialog editor.
> > It help users to select the right plugin, an existing environment
> > variable or an absolute path, and add a list of new entries to the table.
> > Note: the wxWidgets webkit/webview library is needed.
> > On windows,there is no problem.
> > On Linux,  the webkitgtk-devel tool (sudo apt-get install
> > libwebkitgtk-dev) must be installed if it is missing (and wxWidgets
> > rebuilt after running configure.).
> > See:
> > http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_web_view.html
> >
> > However, to avoid use of wxwebview, if it creates issues, you can
> > compile kicad with cmake option -DKICAD_USE_WEBKIT=OFF.
> > But the github plugin wizard will be not fully available.
> >
> > Currently this option is ON.
> > OSX testers are welcome.
>
> BZR 5335 built fine on OS X 10.10.1 and the fp-table dialog seemed to work
> as advertised. I need to do more converting of old legacy libraries to
> pretty so this will be a good opportunity to further test this dialog.
>
> -a
>
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