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Re: [PATCH] eeschema: neatly wrap placeholder text in symbol chooser

 

Hey Wayne, did you see this? I'm pretty confident it's ready to push but
I'd like a second opinion on finding a good place for the function I had
to write.

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 01:55:08AM +0000, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The placeholder text that was added to the symbol preview in the chooser
> ("double-click here...") has a manually placed line break, making it
> flow poorly anywhere the line length doesn't work well --- on my system
> with my DPI setting and fonts the line is cut off at almost any
> non-ridiculous window sizing. I wrote a small function to wrap text
> drawn to a wxDC to fix that.
> 
> I just added this as a static function near where it's used, but if
> there's a better place to stick "miscellaneous wxDC helpers" please
> advise and I'll move it; I couldn't find a decent spot.
> 
> -- 
> Chris



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