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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,
I understand. Maybe somebody else can clear up this issue.

Regarding the "Archive Footprints in Footprint Library Table Entry", I am
not sure people would actually know what a "library table entry", wouldn
they? maybe "Archive Footprints in New Library"?

cheers
Fabrizio


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm not sure about this myself.  I took a look at the code and I still
> don't fully understand why there are multiple options.
>
> The ID_MENU_ARCHIVE_MODULES_IN_LIBRARY command appears to only allow you
> to save the footprints in the current board to a library already listed
> in the footprint library table.  I'm not sure this is necessary since
> you could easily select an existing pretty footprint library (in the
> footprint library table or otherwise) and overwrite it without limiting
> the choices to the footprint library table.  The best description I can
> think of for this is "Archive Footprints in Footprint Library Table
> Entry".  This would a least be accurate.
>
> The ID_MENU_CREATE_LIBRARY_AND_ARCHIVE_MODULES command appears to allow
> you to save the footprints in the current board to either a new library
> path chosen by the user or overwrite an existing pretty footprint
> library.  I would think that this option alone would be sufficient but
> maybe I'm not seeing why the command above needed.  The best description
> I can think of for this is "Archive Footprints in Library".  You could
> use this option to perform the same operation above.
>
> It seems to med a better approach would be to just have a single archive
> command and prompt the user for either a library table entry or library
> path.  At least this would be easier to understand for the user.  I
> didn't write this code so maybe I am missing something.
>
> On 8/9/2017 6:24 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am tinkering the appearance of some icons and I would like to improve
> > the following menu by adding specific archive icons and make some of the
> > text a little clearer.
> >
> > This is the current code:
> >
> >     //----- archive submenu
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >     wxMenu* submenuarchive = new wxMenu();
> >
> >     AddMenuItem( submenuarchive, ID_MENU_ARCHIVE_MODULES_IN_LIBRARY,
> >                  _( "&Archive Footprints in Project Library." ),
> >                  _( "Archive footprints in existing library in footprint
> > Lib table"
> >                     "(does not remove other footprints in this library)"
> ),
> >                  KiBitmap( library_update_xpm ) );
> >
> >     AddMenuItem( submenuarchive, ID_MENU_CREATE_LIBRARY_AND_
> ARCHIVE_MODULES,
> >                  _( "&Create Library and Archive Footprints." ),
> >                  _( "Archive all footprints in new library\n"
> >                     "(if the library already exists it will be deleted)"
> ),
> >                  KiBitmap( library_xpm ) );
> >
> >     AddMenuItem( aParentMenu, submenuarchive,
> >                  ID_MENU_ARCHIVE_MODULES,
> >                  _( "Arc&hive Footprints" ),
> >                  _( "Archive or add footprints in library file" ),
> >                  KiBitmap( library_xpm ) );
> >
> > I would propose these changes:
> >
> > _( "&Archive Footprints in Default Project Library" ),
> > _( "Archive all footprints in existing default project library file"
> >     "(does not remove other footprints in this library)" ),
> >     "(the content of default library is maintained)" ),
> >
> >  _( "&Create New Library and Archive Footprints" ),
> > _( "Archive all footprints in new library file\n"
> >     "(if library file already exists its content is rewritten)" ),
> >
> >  _( "Arc&hive Footprints" ),
> > _( "Archive or add footprints in library file" ), >> _( "Archive all
> > footprints in library file" ),
> >
> > For the option "Create New Library and Archive Footprints" I think it is
> > not clear what library file will be used. Default Project Library sounds
> > good to me but I dont think there is a default project library.
> >
> > Any feedback is welcome
> > cheers
> > Fabrizio
> >
> >
> >
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