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[Mathias Grimmberger <mgri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lorenzo,

Lorenzo Marcantonio <lomarcan@xxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 02:58:45PM +0200, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>> below is a patch to add "mils" as a user unit to pcbnew, the gerber
>> viewer and the module editor. I left out eeschema because I do not think
>> it's useful there, but if required adding it would be easy.
>
> The input box parser actually interpret 'mi' for mils since its
> creations, by the way!

I noticed that this should already work.

Unfortunately in the dialogs using the WX_UNIT_BINDER it doesn't because
the unit binder flags input with an appended unit as invalid. And to add
insult to injury no error is shown, the input is just ignored (also
for stuff like "zz").

Input validation is implemented quite unevenly in any case, some inputs
do not even allow to input invalid characters (IMHO desirable), others
allow anything and complain later.

Is there a plan how this should work, is WX_UNIT_BINDER the standard way
envisioned? Because in that case it needs some work.


MGri