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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/31/2017 10:32 AM, John Beard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patches add the "exchange footprints" command to the GAL edit tool.
> 
> This is 1 out of 3 parts of
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1541460. I'm not sure how to put
> this as a commit comment exactly.

I changed the description of this bug report for just the exchange
footprint command so you patch set should reference this bug report.  I
will file separate bug reports for the rotate and drag footprint commands.

> 
> This is implemented as two segments:
> 
> * Put the dialog/exchange FP code into pcbnew/dialogs directory (as a
> header/implementation pair) where it can be reached by bother
> pcbframe.cpp and GAL tools. This also makes it easier to remove legacy
> calling code in future. No change is made to the functionality of the
> dialog.
> * Add the tool to the GAL, calling the dialog as needed.
> 
> The third patch is optional, but tidies up a copy-pasted selection
> routine into a named function and adds a little commentary to a couple
> of related existing functions.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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