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

 

Hey Chris, I saw.  I just haven't gotten around to testing it yet.  I'm
drowning in the current patch volume.  I'm going to try to get caught up
over the weekend.

On 01/05/2018 09:51 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> 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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