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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Would patches to make some of the simpler dialogs programmatic be accepted?

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We've been dancing around this issue for a while without any real
> resolution.  I'm fine with using Mark's version of wxFB but a lot folks
> are going to want to use whatever is packaged for their distro rather
> than build wxFB from source which presents a serious issue.  I'm not
> sure there is a good answer for this problem.  If no one else has any
> objections, I'm willing to make Mark's wxFB fork the official version
> for KiCad dialog submission for the time being.  In the long run, if
> wxFB is not actively being developed, I would rather come up with an
> alternative.
>
> FWIW, I think most of you know how I feel about dialog creation tools
> vs. creating them programmatically.  Kicad's dialogs used to be created
> this way but I got out voted at the time the decision was made to switch
> to wxFB.  I'm feeling better about my choice all the time. ;)
>
> On 9/2/2016 7:11 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> I would vote in favor of using Mark's fork officially for everyone, if
>> it builds okay on all the platforms. wxfb is kinda nasty, if we're going
>> to use it it's nice to have our own fork that solves at least a few of
>> these issues.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 08:45:12AM +1000, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>>> I just use MRoszko's fork; it's cleaner than the original and much
>>> easier to configure and build since the bizarre wxFB build system
>>> had been eradicated and replaced by CMake.
>>>
>>> git clone https://github.com/marekr/wxFormBuilder.git wxfb
>>> cd wxfb && git checkout wxFB3.5-1
>>>
>>> A half year or so ago I tried the later wxFB in development but it
>>> broke so many things that I just reverted the files and went back to
>>> wxFB3,5-1.
>>>
>>> - Cirilo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Along these lines: this isn't the first time wxfb version issues have
>>>> come up. Perhaps we should pick an "official" wxfb version for the
>>>> project to use, and then actually provide builds of it for developer use
>>>> (as it can be a bit annoying to track down a specific version)? Then we
>>>> can upgrade together as new versions come out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 09:16:41AM +1200, Simon Wells wrote:
>>>>> dialog_pad_properties_base.fbp h cpp was last modified in commit
>>>>>
>>>>> 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213
>>>>> https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=
>>>> 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213
>>>>>
>>>>> the problem is this version of wxformbuilder is newer than the one
>>>>> available on sourceforge and it is very difficult to build on other
>>>>> platforms ( i tried a while ago and gave up as it had issues)
>>>>>
>>>>> the version that was used to save these files has broken it on older
>>>>> versions of wxformbuilder
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a version of wxformbuilder that we should be using to avoid
>>>>> it breaking on other versions?
>>>>>
>>>>> the last available from sf.net is 3.5rc1 iirc
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
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