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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kristoffer,

I merged your patch into the master branch.  Thank you for your
contribution to KiCad.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 10/19/2017 11:53 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> I tested the GetAssociatedDocument, works much better and has more
> features so i took the freedom of updating the dialog windows to use
> that instead of the wxLaunchDefaultBrowser as well
> 
> attaching patch :)
> 
> - Kristoffer
> 
> On 10/19/2017 02:07 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> On 10/19/2017 7:09 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
>>> Yes indeed it breaks that, I would argue that having an "invisible"
>>> field opened when using the context field is the source of the
>>> confusion. So I am aware it breaks the context menu for old schematics
>>> but think it is necessary anyway.
>>
>> I'm OK with this change.  I'm not sure why we would use the document
>> field from the library symbol rather the schematic symbol.  AFAIK, we
>> don't do that for any other schematic symbol fields.
>>
>>>
>>> I can of course use GetAssociatedDocument instead.
>>>
>>> On Oct 19, 2017 12:54 PM, "jp charras" <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Le 18/10/2017 à 20:20, Kristoffer Ödmark a écrit :
>>>      > Glad to hear it, I fixed a patch up that will highlight the
>>>      differences a bit better than I explain it.
>>>      >
>>>      > Basically it will fill the field from the properties if the field
>>>      is empty when adding components to
>>>      > the schematic.
>>>      >
>>>      > It will also use the Field to determine when to show the context
>>>      menu instead of relying on the
>>>      > library.
>>>      >
>>>      > - Kristoffer
>>>      >
>>>
>>>      Unfortunately, it breaks access to the associated document for
>>>      existing schematics, that can have a
>>>      datasheet name set in library, but not in schematic.
>>>
>>>      and calling:
>>>      ::wxLaunchDefaultBrowser( text ); is incorrect
>>>      (text is not always a .pdf doc with a full absolute path or URI)
>>>      see:
>>>      GetAssociatedDocument()
>>>
>>>      --
>>>      Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>>
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