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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Understood.  I'm all to familiar with long KiCad todo lists.  I think
mine might be setting some kind record. :)  I'm fine with the changes
for editing the mandatory fields.  Keep in mind that it's not just the
reference and value fields.  The footprint and doc fields are also
mandatory and their field names cannot be edited.

On 7/6/2016 9:55 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> That would be nice to have. Unfortunately I've been really busy with Actual
> Paid Work™ lately and my KiCad todo list is already pretty long, so if you want
> it done that way, I think someone else might have to do it. :(
> 
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:50:04AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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