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[Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>]

Il 20/12/2016 09:59, jp charras ha scritto:
> Le 08/11/2016 à 01:29, Dino Ghilardi a écrit :
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Thanks for the comments on this tool and the video.
> >
> > ...
> Hi Dino,
>
> Have you a more recent version of your tool, including a few enhancements you have listed?
> This tool is very interesting (although there are some issues to fix in code, especially wxFrames
> are used instead wxDialogs).
>
> Orson, have you looked into this patch?
> Even if you are working on something like a parametric editor, this specialized tool could be an
> interesting feature.
Hi, jp.

 I have that version and I'll send a new patch soon (I'll have some 
spare time next week).
 I've also choosen not to send patches for a while since the team was 
working on the 4.0.5 release and I would not like to add too many things 
to do at a time.

 I've sent also a "preview" of the newer version to Oliver some days 
ago (I'm still beautifying the code) with  new features added: it 
evolved a lot from the one shown in the video: In the new version there are:

    -a 'copy spreadsheet data' that puts the table data in the 
clipboard and can be used to paste the grid into a spreadsheet program 
like excel or libreoffice calc or gnumeric (tested on gnumeric and 
libreoffice)
    -Field parameters like font, visibility, horizontal and vertical 
justify can be now edited for selected cells.
    -It is possible to select a whole column (ctrl+space) or row or a 
block of fields and modify them in a single operation,
    -It is possible to filter components on a 'by sheet' basis showing 
only the components in the current sheet. Changing current sheet updates 
the grid data.
    -It is possible to select the content of a cell as column filter 
from the right-click pop-up menu,
    -It is possible to filter-out/in the 'commented' components (the 
one with reference starting with '#' as the power symbols or ground symbols)
    -The 'common' filter options are now better organized
    -If a field has a text style as bold or italic it is also shown in 
bold or italic in the grid
    -Right-clicking on a component the component footprint browser can 
be launched to set the footprint
    -live selection (if a component is selected in the spreadsheet is 
centered on the schematic page, If a component is selected in the 
schematic it is selected and centered in the spreadsheet)
    -Correct field deletion (empty field for default fields and field 
remove field if the field is optional)
    -If a field does not exist for a particular component the cell has 
a different background color
    -If something is changed in the grid the schematic view is updated 
realtime.
    -New status bar at the bottom of the tool to see what the last 
operation was or if there was some error in that operation.


The annoyance/bug is the undo: Since in kicad it seems there is a 
different undo-list for every sheet that composes the whole schematic a 
ctrl-Z on the grid undoes the operations on the current sheet only. 
Another annoyance (always on the undo function) is that I'm able to undo 
only an operation at a time, so if you change 500 fields at once, to 
undo this operation you need to undo 500 times.
To fix this may be a change of the undo system should be needed.
Is there is some 'kicad undo guru' to find a solution, since may be i 
just did not go to deep into the undo system implementation to see a 
solution.

The missing part on this patch is also the user documentation, but I 
think it is better to write that when the tool is stabilized.


Since I'm mostly a C/asm programmer, may be the programming style is not 
very 'C++', but it is evolving...

Cheers,
Dino.