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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have time to test this right now, but I may later. In any case,
you HAVE to use wxformbuilder, we will not accept a patch that edits
them directly. If you edit them directly, any edits will be lost in the
figure if anyone else tries to use wxformbuilder on them. Please, just
download it.

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 12:51:30AM +0100, Diogo Condeço wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've attached a patch to correct some dialog behaviour in kicad. Tested on
> mac os x and windows...
> 
> Affected dialogs are:
> 
> pcbnew > find component - set focus and selection
> pcbnew > pad properties - set focus and selection
> eeschema > add component - only set focus
> 
> IMHO the correct behaviour should be set focus to the first or most
> relevant field and select the text in it for prompt replacement... In some
> cases this might be different like eeschema add component, where the cursor
> goes to the text field but the selection goes the the last one used (if it
> exists).
> 
> I've also managed to get edit field in eeschema (edit reference/value field
> dialog) to work on mac os x, but in windows it isn't working 100%, so I
> will release it later... Since this dialog is shared for different values,
> it is a little bit trickier...
> 
> The patch is quite simple just add the OnDialogInit event to take care of
> the setfocus and setselection operation.
> 
> I don't have wxformbuilder to edit the generated files, so I did it by
> hand... so forgive me for not caring about the // PLEASE DO "NOT" EDIT THIS
> FILE! note
> 
> Please test it and let me know the result... Also if you find more
> problematic dialogs let me know and I can change them. I am 10000% sure
> there are more with setfocus problems... it's just a question of find them.
> 
> Once the other dialog is working I will post the patch.
> 
> --
> Diogo Condeço