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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

cheers Oliver,
I do not know what a .dcm file is.

I am not sure it is a good idea to have a in-built field called Description
in the table viewer. But I can easily see how that is useful. I guess you
would like to use this table to add info. This makes it non a table viewer.
The current icon label says "Component table view" which I find ambiguous.
Maybe Wayne can jump in with a proper name for it.

I am having the feeling the development of this table did not come from a
clean plan of having an XYZ tool. Or maybe is just me. Please dont get me
wrong, I love this table (and the soon to come new icon) but it might be a
good idea to drop the word viewer for it if we want the (great) ability to
edit stuff.

I hope this helps.

Fabrizio









On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fabrizio,
>
> 1. You have added a custom field called "Description".
> 2. The table viewer has an "inbuild" field called "Description". It
> populates this field with the component description which is found in the
> .dcm files
>
> Here's what I see.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Here I have added the custom "description" field with dummy data to only
> one component.
>
> The first "Description" column is filled with the symbol descriptions from
> the .dcm files in the library.
>
> If you are missing the .dcm files then your first column will be empty.
>
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Fabrizio Tappero <
> fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Oliver,
>> not sure I understand the question. This is what my schematic components
>> fields look like:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>>
>> cheers
>> Fabrizio
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Previous bug even works without modifying a field, all I have to do is
>>> enter a field edit mode and click somewhere else, and that field's value
>>> will be copied to where ever I clicked, this will cause a lot of grief when
>>> users decide to cancel editing and click elsewhere to discard changes, or
>>> so they think that's what should have happened.
>>>
>>>
>>> A few more things:
>>> 1. When I click Apply changes, the RED markings/modified fields should
>>> disappear when the changes have been successfully applied
>>> 2. Undo/Redo should work inside Component Table to undo each user
>>> action, instead of having the user to discard all changes and start over
>>> 3. There's something weird going on when you try to edit a field, it
>>> seems that have to click 4 times to enter edit mode, 2 times is what I
>>> expect. Also perhaps some weird delay that prevents me from entering edit
>>> mode.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oliver, found another unexpected behaviour.
>>>> When I select a field to edit, for example to replace a "Part Number"
>>>> field from AAA to BBB, when I type in BBB but instead of hitting enter, I
>>>> click on the next field below it which belongs to another part, then BBB
>>>> modifies that part's field instead of where the editing took place.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Oliver Walters <
>>>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The "Description" field should be showing the description of each
>>>>> symbol as it appears in the .dcm file. It was working for me - do your
>>>>> symbols not have those descriptions?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Fabrizio Tappero <
>>>>> fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>> great ! you guys almost fixed it. It looks like the column
>>>>>> "Description" appears twice and one of the two is completely empty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>> Fabrizio
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <
>>>>>> stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oliver,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I committed your patch.  Thank you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 5/22/2017 10:08 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>>>>>>> > Bug noted here - https://lists.launchpad.net/ki
>>>>>>> cad-developers/msg29485.html
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Patch attached to this email fixes glitch when user adds custom
>>>>>>> field
>>>>>>> > with same name as a default field.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Users can now do this to their heart's content.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
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>>>> --
>>>> Remember The Past, Live The Present, Change The Future
>>>> Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the
>>>> future [JFK]
>>>>
>>>> kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> Live Long and Prosper,
>>>> Andrey
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Remember The Past, Live The Present, Change The Future
>>> Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the
>>> future [JFK]
>>>
>>> kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Live Long and Prosper,
>>> Andrey
>>>
>>
>>
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