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[Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey OSX devs,

great to hear that some of those UI issues will possibly be addressed before the stable
release!

As far as I can tell the combo box/drop-down menu bug in pcbnew only affects the menus listed
by Jean-Paul: Track Width, Via Diameter, Grid Size, Zoom Size. The Active Layer Switch drop
down menu in the toolbar above for example works as expected.

There seems to be no bug report for this. I would open one if this helps the devs?

And I just came across another minor UI glitch in pcbnew: When running the DRC, the dialog
window loses focus to the main window after the checks are finished. Since the main window is
usually bigger than the DRC dialog window this results in the dialog suddenly vanishing from
the screen. An unexperienced user might think that the checks failed and might try to click
the DRC button again. But since the dialog is still lurking behind the main window, nothing
happens.

I think that there are two issues here, that both should be easy to fix:

- DRC dialog window should keep focus after checks are finished.
- If the dialog has somehow lost focus (perhaps the user deliberately gave focus back to the
main window, leaving the dialog open), the next click on the DRC button/icon should bring the
dialog back to focus.

However, with the DRC issue I am not sure, if this is OSX only and I have no Linux machine
near me now to verify.

I could open a bug report for this, too, if you want.


Best,

Johannes

> Am 22.06.2015 um 07:33 schrieb Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> It is only about the comboboxes in the main window, right?
> Does anybody know any other comboboxes not working?
> 
> I played around with that already some while back, but didn’t find anything wrong wrt how those are created.
> I can try again over the upcoming weekend…
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
>> On 22 Jun 2015, at 01:57, louijp <louijp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> I agree with Adam, this has been on and off for at least a year. But nobody came up with a plan to fix it. Now it seems that we have more OS X developers, so I hope someone will take the ball and run with it.
>> 
>> Jean-Paul
>> AC9GH
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: 2015/06/21 2:38 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] idea for post-release file manipulations
>> 
>> That is a legitimate bug.  Not sure if it is on the tracker yet, but it has been discussed on the list.
>> 
>> There are plenty of OS X UI issues that should be evaluated before the stable release.  I suspect moat of then are wxwidgets issues.  *sigh*
>> 
>> Adam Wolf
>> 
>> Adam Wolf
>> 
>> On Jun 21, 2015 1:07 PM, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Where is the bug listed in the bug tracker Jean-Paul?
>> 
>> 2015-06-21 19:46 GMT+02:00 Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Are we going to the stable release with all the drop-down items broken on pcbnew OSX?
>> >
>> > I cannot use the mouse or the track-pad to select any of the items on the four drop-down menus for Track size, Via size, Grid size and Zoom selection.
>> >
>> > I reported this several times, but nobody seems to acknowledge it. Is it an issue with my setting? or it is a real issue?
>> >
>> > Thanks for letting me know.
>> >
>> > A very frustrated Jean-Paul
>> > AC9GH
>> >
>> >> On Jun 21, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Simon,
>> >>
>> >> A group of us have talked about making a git plugin that will be compatible w the github plugin, but will use git on the user's system and won't do network io on its own.
>> >>
>> >> We have basically always pushed it off until after the stable release, but as soon as things quiet down i think we should see who is interested and make a roadmap and get buy-in from the lead team.
>> >>
>> >> Adam Wolf
>> >>
>> >> On Jun 21, 2015 11:46 AM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> See include/richio.h
>> >>
>> >> Our I/O objects already support wxInputStream and wxOutputStream.
>> >> Although there is no reason you couldn't add objects that use
>> >> std::istream and std::ostream or the boost::iostreams.  I believe the
>> >> wxIoStreams already support support archives so all you would have to do
>> >> is create the stream and pass it too the proper LINE_READER or
>> >> OUTPUT_FORMATTER object.  You would automagically have archive stream
>> >> support for board file and footprint libraries.
>> >>
>> >> On 6/21/2015 8:55 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > Am 21.06.2015 um 03:06 schrieb Cirilo Bernardo:
>> >> >
>> >> >> a. Abstracting a stream class which can magically support
>> >> >> file retrieval by http, local files, and perhaps github (I know
>> >> >> next to nothing about how github works) and local file
>> >> >> writing.
>> >> >
>> >> > std::istream?
>> >> >
>> >> >> b. The stream class can automatically inflate *.gz files
>> >> >> (basically files compressed by zlib and with .gz at the end).
>> >> >
>> >> > boost::iostreams::gzip?
>> >> >
>> >> >> Supporting *.gz can typically shrink footprint files to 30-40%
>> >> >> of the uncompressed size and VRML files can often
>> >> >> compress to <15% of the original size and large STEP
>> >> >> and IGES files can compress to 10% of the original.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is that actually a problem for users, though?
>> >> >
>> >> > I'd probably even want to see the opposite -- network operations removed
>> >> > from the rest of the program. Right now, if I have github footprints in
>> >> > my list, entering cvpcb or pcbnew always takes a while because the
>> >> > libraries are updated everytime.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'd rather have an explicit mechanism to update the libraries, giving me
>> >> > local files that are instantly and always available, with no new failure
>> >> > modes to handle for the application.
>> >> >
>> >> >    Simon
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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