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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am I just missing something, or did you reply to the wrong mail? ;)

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 05:37:16PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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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