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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/6/2016 9:36 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Would anyone be opposed to me making the reference and value fields in
> "footprint properties" directly editable, so you don't have to click Edit and
> call up a second dialog if you don't need to modify font properties? Seems like
> an obvious improvement, but I don't know why they're not editable in the first
> place so I want to make sure there's nothing I'm missing to get in the way.
> 

I would prefer that we design a generic field list editing control based
on wxGrid (or some other control if it's a better choice) that could be
used anywhere where we edit fields.  I would prefer one field per row
with all of the configurable field parameters in the columns.  Obviously
you would have to handle making the names of the mandatory fields read
only but this would be a really useful control that could be used in the
schematic component edit dialog, the symbol editor field edit dialog,
and possibly a few other places.  It's annoying to edit fields one at a
time.