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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Oliver,

This is a really useful improvement and works as advertised, I vote for
merging!

Cheers,
Orson

On 10/29/2017 02:37 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> In the footprint viewer window it is often hard to find the exact footprint
> you want across multiple libraries
> 
> The attached patch set adds a search filter input to the toolbar.
> 
> Entering a filter string in this box updates the list of available
> libraries and footprints.
> 
> Features:
> 
> 1. Wildcard searching with * and ?
> 2. Include library name in the filter with the : character
> 3. Not case sensitive
> 
> To accomplish this, all the libraries have to be loaded first, rather than
> individually when the library is selected.
> 
> Because of this change, I have also added a "reload footprint libraries"
> button to the toolbar.
> 
> This is a feature I have wanted for a while, I think it saves a lot of
> effort when searching for footprints.
> 
> Cheers,
> Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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