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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrey,

They are. However there is logic when the table is being created to
determine if the table already "knows" about a certain field. (Assigning an
#ID to a field name). There's currently a bug where if the user chooses a
field name that matches a default name, then it gets confused.

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Why aren't fields enumerated by id #s instead of strings?
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Oliver Walters <
> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Interesting edge case - this is a good find.
>>
>> Wayne, JP, etc:
>>
>> How best to handle user fields that are renamed to match the "default"
>> fields (which depend on the locale of the user).
>>
>> I could add a special tag to the default fields or make them uppercase,
>> etc, but that only shifts the problem to a different string comparison.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Oliver
>>
>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Fabrizio Tappero <
>> fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> hi Guys,
>>> this is a gentle reminder that
>>> ​ (for instance)​
>>> a "description"
>>> ​tag in the ​schematic
>>> component
>>> ​properties will be wrongly parsed by the component table view​er.
>>>
>>> ​Cheers
>>> Fabrizio
>>> ​
>>>
>>>
>>> ​[image: Inline image 1]​
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oliver,
>>>>
>>>> I committed your patch.  Thank you for your contribution to KiCad.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>> On 5/15/2017 3:33 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>>>> > Simple patch that left-aligns text in component table viewer
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
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