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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had a senior moment.  You are correct.  This should have been for your
footprint exchange dialog patch.  Sorry for the noise.  I will reply to
the correct email momentarily.

On 6/19/2015 5:43 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> 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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