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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/27/2017 2:04 AM, hauptmech wrote:
> 
> That must have been painful to find...
> 
> A quick read of the Aui code says yes there is a problem. They hide all
> panels at the beginning of LoadPerspective and then update only panels
> with keys in the configuration string. So anything new and not in the
> config file will stay hidden.
> 
> I'm not current on kicad gui policy.  That said, everything works as I
> would expect it to.
> 
> A user with an existing config will keep that config and can use the
> pane toggle in the view menu to turn the pane on.
> A new user will have an empty config file and will get the default
> config as defined in the code.
> 
> Going forward  LoadSettings() or SaveSettings() probably need a property
> filter added, as those are where SavePerspective (and LoadPerspective
> once Dick finishes per his comment in the code) are called.

I think I'm the one who used {Load/Save}Perspective.  Dick commented it
out when we discovered it was broken.

> 
> If the pane is mandatory (no view toggle) you probably need to hard-code
> unhiding it after LoadPerspective to be nice to users upgrading with
> config files in place.

You will most likely have to force the change in the perspective to
ensure that you can unhide panes.  I would be careful about what aui
behavior you enable.  If I recall, detachable panes was also broken but
that make have been fixed.  Have you tried testing with wx 3.1?  Maybe
the wx project fixed some of these issues.

> 
> Take a peek at the Aui source code if I didn't explain the above well
> enough and it should quickly make sense.
> 
> 
> On 27/10/17 16:32, Oliver Walters wrote:
>> I finally discovered the issue. To add a new wxAUI pane, I had to go
>> into ~/.config/kicad/pcbnew and delete all entries relating to
>> modview. After this, I was able to see the new item.
>>
>> So, is there is a potential problem with
>> wxAuiManager::LoadPerspective, if the layout configuration has changed?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:58 PM, hauptmech <hauptmech@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:hauptmech@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Looks like I missed modview_frame at the time so you'll want to
>>     reference one of the other frames and update it. I converted a lot
>>     of erroneous Row() calls to Layer() and standardized the
>>     initialization. On the git repo it's commit bd19d31082...
>>
>>     Remembering more about this now. From back when tearing off the
>>     AUI panels and moving them to a second monitor gave me a crucial
>>     few more cm of room to view my design. These days with a 4K
>>     display it doesn't seem so critical.
>>
>>
>>
>>     -Hauptmech
>>
>>     On 16/10/17 15:00, Oliver Walters wrote:
>>>     The image is 1920x1020, there should be no issue reading the text...
>>>
>>>     Anyway, the issue is that I have tried to add a new panel to the
>>>     module selector window, by copying the code used to add the
>>>     panels that are currently there. Compiles ok but when I run KiCad
>>>     and open the selector, the new panel is not visible anywhere. I
>>>     realize this isn't much of a problem description, but I was
>>>     wondering if there was some trick that is undocumented (or
>>>     documented somewhere that I haven't found it) that I need to know
>>>     to display wxAUI panels.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Greg Smith
>>>     <ecomputerd@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ecomputerd@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         I can't read the text, there's not enough resolution. What is
>>>         the issue?
>>>
>>>         I've had windows that seem to be tucked under the horizontal
>>>         toolbar.
>>>
>>>         Greg S.
>>>
>>>         On Oct 15, 2017, at 7:46 PM, Oliver Walters
>>>         <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx
>>>         <mailto:oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>         I'm trying to add a new panel to the module viewer window.
>>>>         "screenshot" below.
>>>>
>>>>         However I can't get wxAUI to play along at all. I cannot
>>>>         even get a new panel to be displayed in this window. Are
>>>>         there any particular tricks that may be non-obvious?
>>>>
>>>>         https://i.imgur.com/dXj51u1.png
>>>>         <https://i.imgur.com/dXj51u1.png>
>>>>
>>>>         Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>         Oliver
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