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Message #26683
Re: [RFC] Component library browser improvements.
yespls
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:49:18PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> While cleaning up the component library object as part of my schematic
> I/O plugin work, I ran into some oddities with the component library
> browser that I want to clean up. Before I make the changes, I would
> like to be sure no one objects to them.
>
> The first time the viewer is displayed, no library or component are
> selected. Clicking the next or previous toolbar buttons opens a select
> library dialog. Once a library is selected, another dialog box is
> opened asking the user to select a component from the library selected
> in the first dialog. This seem a bit excessive to me. I want to just
> select the first library and the first component in that library the
> first time the main window is initialized so the next and previous
> buttons just scroll down through the list of components.
>
> There is a select library and a select component toolbar buttons that do
> nothing but show the same list of libraries and components shown in the
> library and component panes of the main window. This seems redundant to
> me. Why would you bother to open a dialog to select a library or
> component when you can just select them from the main window? What I
> would like to do is replace these two list dialogs with our component
> selector dialog complete with type ahead find and all of it's searching
> goodness. This way you get both the library and component selected in a
> single dialog.
>
> The up and down arrow key selection in the library and component list
> panes does not wrap past the end of the list. However, using the next
> and previous component button does wrap in the component selection pane.
> I'm thinking the behavior should be the same whether you use the
> toolbar buttons or the arrow keys. I prefer the wrapping myself but
> changing the wxListBox behavior may require more work than I want to
> commit to so I'm leaning in no wrapping direction.
>
> If anyone objects to these changes, speak now or forever hold your peace.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
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