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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris, Eldar-

I looked at the drop-down button option and, as far as I can tell, this is
possible but non-trivial in wx.  As Wayne is freezing this weekend, I'll
look at ways of specifying current draw styles for 6.x dev branch.

-S

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:25 PM, eldar.khayrullin <eldar.khayrullin@xxxxxxx
> wrote:

> The same feature request how Chris suggested.
>
>
>
> Отправлено с устройства Samsung.
>
> -------- Исходное сообщение --------
> От: Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
> Дата: 18.11.17 3:44 (GMT+03:00)
> Кому: Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>
> Копия: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Тема: Re: [Kicad-developers] [FEATURE] Eeschema Line Styles
>
> Niiiiice! I've wanted this for ages, thank you so much!
>
> Can I make a minor feature request? It'd be really nice if I could set
> the color and style before placing lines, so I can place arbitrarily
> many without having to change the style for each segment. Some editors
> do this by adding a style dropdown to the toolbar button (and displaying
> the selected style on the button). I can't remember how hard wx makes it
> to add dropdowns to toolbar buttons, but this sounds like a nice way to
> do it.
>
> --
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 06:50:26PM +0000, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > One of the Eeschema features that has been requested for a while is
> > customizable graphic line styles that allow greater differentiation in
> > schematic documentation.  c.f.
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/594059
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1405026
> >
> > The limitation has been not wanting to change the existing schematic
> format.
> >
> > I propose a way around this while implementing the desired feature.
> > Specifically, the attached patch allows the user to customize graphic
> lines
> > (schematic wires are disallowed), with the extra wire data being stored
> at
> > the end of the wire line.  This change should be transparent to the
> > existing schematic format as the trailing characters are ignored in the
> > legacy file reader.  Thus customization will be ignored if you are
> sharing
> > files between versions.
> >
> > Second, to avoid large, useless diffs in versioning storage, the patch
> does
> > not store any additional formatting data unless it has been changed from
> > the default.
> >
> > I'm attaching an image showing the line edit dialog as well as the patch
> > implementing this.  Please let me know if there are any questions or
> > suggestions for improvement.
> >
> > Best-
> > Seth
>
>
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