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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,
I understand. I am considering all your comments and I propose few minor
improvements.

I will submitting a patch shortly with minor text and icon modifications.

Cheers
Fabrizio


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 8/10/2017 12:56 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> > 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"?
>
> It's hard to say but "Archive Footprints in New Library" is misleading.
> If you are choosing a library from the library table, then it already
> exists.  Perhaps "Archive Footprints in Existing Library" would be less
> confusing but the user will still be limited to fp lib table entries
> rather than any path of the user's choosing.  I also noticed that the
> dialog showing the list of fp lib table entries for the user to select
> showed all of the entries rather than only the entries that the user has
> write permission so there is that issue as well.
>
> >
> > cheers
> > Fabrizio
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto: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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