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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi Guys,
this is a great feature. It would be a good thing to have a gray suggestion
often used in webpages and phone apps. Example here:

https://storage.googleapis.com/material-design/publish/material_v_12/assets/0B5ZSepuCX1xOOURmSHNjdktDR28/discoverable-extracted-label1.png


cheers
Fabrizio



On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 10/31/2017 1:25 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> > Hmm, I had thought that there was a way to load only the *names* of
> > footprints, rather than individually parsing each footprint file. It
> > appears that this is not the case. Any suggestions on how the speed
> > could be improved? Currently I'm reading out all the footprint names in
> > each footprint library and only storing the names (wxString) rather than
> > the MODULE* objects. However, I still have to parse the entire library
> > on load.
> >
> > Ideally, I think it would be good to just read in the names, and then
> > load and display individual MODULE objects on demand.. Is this possible?
>
> This is possible (although not implemented) for library types (kicad,
> geda) that use one file per footprint.  You could just read the file
> names from the folder and load the files as required.  If you want to
> search any other properties of the footprint, then you will have to load
> all of the footprints anyway.  I don't know if this would be worth the
> effort.
>
> For library types that contain multiple footprints per file (legacy,
> Eagle), this wouldn't make much sense.  Parsing the entire file just to
> pick out the footprint names probably isn't going to save you very much
> time.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 10/30/2017 5:23 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> >     > Thanks for the suggestions on fixing the text. I have that sorted.
> >     >
> >     > I will look into different ways of caching footprint data so it is
> quicker.
> >     >
> >     > Wayne, I didn't know about FOOTPRINT_FILTER I will switch to using
> that
> >     > instead (and provide regex search).
> >
> >     Thanks Oliver!
> >
> >     >
> >     > On 31 Oct 2017 06:55, "Seth Hillbrand" <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     > <mailto:seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>>>
> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Wayne Stambaugh
> >     >     <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>>wrote:
> >     >
> >     >         On 10/30/2017 1:16 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> >     >         > Oliver, this is neat and very helpful.
> >     >         >
> >     >         > The greyed-out thing is a wx2.8 bug.  You can work
> >     around it by setting
> >     >         > the foreground color when updating the filter like this:
> >     >         >
> >     >         >  void FOOTPRINT_VIEWER_FRAME::OnFilterUpdated(
> >     wxCommandEvent& event )
> >     >         >  {
> >     >         > +    // Workaround wx2.8 bug showing greyed color
> >     >         > +    if( m_searchBox->GetValue() !=
> >     m_searchBox->GetDescriptiveText() )
> >     >         > +        m_searchBox->SetForegroundColour(
> >     >         > m_searchBox->GetDefaultAttributes().colFg );
> >     >         > +
> >     >         >      // Filter is non case sensitive
> >     >         >      wxString filter = m_searchBox->GetValue().Lower();
> >     >         >
> >     >         > The searchbox handles resetting it to grey on idle()
> >     when the text is empty.
> >     >
> >     >         Don't you mean wx 3.0?  CMake should not even generate the
> >     build
> >     >         configuration files without wx 3.0 or greater.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     Hmm... This was an issue back in 2.8 that appears to be only
> >     partly
> >     >     fixed.  The workaround I suggest above is functional but, for
> >     this,
> >     >     we can also execute a cleaner fix by setting the descriptive
> >     text in
> >     >     the declaration:
> >     >
> >     >     @@ -67,9 +67,10 @@ void FOOTPRINT_VIEWER_FRAME::
> ReCreateHToolbar()
> >     >                                      KiBitmap( module_xpm ),
> >     >                                      _( "Select footprint to
> >     browse" ) );
> >     >
> >     >     -        m_searchBox = new wxSearchCtrl( m_mainToolBar,
> >     >     ID_MODVIEW_SEARCH_TEXT );
> >     >     +        m_searchBox = new wxSearchCtrl( m_mainToolBar,
> >     >     ID_MODVIEW_SEARCH_TEXT,
> >     >     +                _( "Enter filter string" ) );
> >     >              m_searchBox->SetMinSize( wxSize( 250, 30 ) );
> >     >     -        m_searchBox->SetDescriptiveText( _( "Enter filter
> >     string" ) );
> >     >
> >     >
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