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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

I'm not opposed to this patch.  I actually prefer the footprint viewer
over the footprint search dialog for two reasons.  One, the footprint
viewer uses lazy loading (it doesn't actually read the footprint files
until you select a library) so there is no lag showing the viewer due to
loading all of the footprints in every library as is the case with the
search dialog.  Two, you can actually view the footprint to make sure
that is really what you want.  That being said, I'm sure not everyone
shares my enthusiasm for the footprint viewer so a better solution may
be to add a separate button to launch the footprint viewer and leave the
footprint search dialog in place for users who prefer using that
instead.  I promise you if we remove the footprint search dialog,
someone will file a bug report about it shortly there after. :)

Wayne


On 6/18/2015 3:07 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's come to my attention that we have another old project compatibility 
> issue:
> 
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/exisiting-schematic-component-not-being-found-in-library-error/976
> 
> The behavior when loading a very old project with case-insensitive part 
> names isn't nice at all, there's no easy way to change them over. It 
> gives suggestions for new part names, but you still have to change them 
> one by one.
> 
> I adapted lib-cache-rescue into a more generic project-rescue, which can 
> handle multiple types of rescue cases, and added one for missing symbols 
> with differently cased versions available.
> 
> It looks roughly like this now (though I've changed the descriptive text 
> at the top since taking that screenshot):
> 
> http://misc.c4757p.com/newrescue.png
> 
> Please, as many people as possible, try this out.
> 
> --
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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