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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrey,

Given a blank slate, I’d probably agree with you.

But you’ve gotta give some love to the horse you’re on….

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 24 Jan 2018, at 08:52, Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Wayne, that's what you get for using PoS like wxWidgets.
> It's been like that since I looked at it 8 years ago, and it's still shit.
> 
> That's why I used Qt in my project, it was polished from the get go, had easy to understand framework and had plenty of functions to accomplish anything in anyway. Where as wxWidgets was something out of 1990's poorly written, badly named, and ugly looking with a ton of bugs.
> 
> wxWidgets => something the cat dragged in
> Qt => this is open source? WOW, looks professional...
> 
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Hey Bernhard,
> 
> On 01/23/2018 05:51 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> Thanks, Jeff.
> 
> So, this brings up a very general question:
> How far do we want to go with patching wxWidgets in our fork?
> 
> Don’t get me wrong… the patch looks sane and I guess it then will look on macOS like it does on Linux/Windows - for whatever reason (bug, intended?) it didn’t look like that before.
> Opinions?
> Wayne?
> 
> If this is what we have to do to keep macos a workable solution than so be it.  I guess at some point in the future, later versions of wx will solve these issues but for the time being we can maintain a wx branch that gives our macos users the best experience possible.
> 
> 
>  From a pure user perspective I guess it would be more important to have it look/behave the same on all platforms (as long as it doesn’t break OS specific GUI stuff).
> So, I am not opposed to apply such patches and all that might come in future...
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> On 23. Jan 2018, at 22:30, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Bernhard.  I tried that, but it didn’t help.
> 
> I ended up taking out a pretty big hammer: I overrode the setFrameOrigin method for radioButtons.  When radio buttons are created in a column-oriented radio box, they now get a wxLEFT style.  The setFrameOrigin override bangs the x value back to 8 if that flag is set.
> 
> Patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1745026 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1745026>.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
> On 23 Jan 2018, at 16:24, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> 
> In wxWidgets master there are a couple of alignment fixes like this one:
> https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/5aa66ffd936d00d101f12d6e8305a0d2f6c82cc2#diff-4c33f04f2d98bef24c5f526f6fa79d33 <https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/5aa66ffd936d00d101f12d6e8305a0d2f6c82cc2#diff-4c33f04f2d98bef24c5f526f6fa79d33>
> 
> I don’t know if some of them fix that problem.
> My last wxWidgets master build shows the same behaviour but I don’t know for sure if those fixes were already in.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> On 23. Jan 2018, at 15:40, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it’s just most noticeable in Read Netlist, but in fact it’s all radio buttons in a box sizer:
> 
> <PastedGraphic-2.png>
> 
> On 23 Jan 2018, at 14:35, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> 
> Note: I’ve split the dialog issues out into a separate thread.
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> It still happens.  I have wxFormBuilder running, but none of the settings affect the centering.  I suspect it’s just how the wxWidgets team implemented it on OSX.
> 
> I might light at it again while putting my flame-suit on over Undo. ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
> On 23 Jan 2018, at 14:19, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> Is this still an issue.  This dialog looks fine on windows and linux so
> I have no way of confirming that any changes to the wxformbuilder
> settings would fix it.  Any of our macos devs have wxformbuilder on
> their system so they can fix this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 1/18/2018 1:17 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> It’s not center vs. left alignment, but rather that the radio button
> group is centered within the staticTextBox.  Note in particular the
> alignment of the two radio button groups in the left column:
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 Jan 2018, at 17:23, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>>
> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
> 
> What do you mean by centered? I don't see anything centered, I just
> see them left aligned. Looks ok to me unless I am looking at the wrong
> thing.
> 
> 2018-01-14 <tel:20%2018%2001%2014> 0:02 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young
> <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>>:
> 
>   This is a shortcut for eeschema Annotate + eeschema Write Netlist
>   + pcbnew Read Netlist, right?
> 
>   Is there a reason the Update PCB from Schematic dialog doesn’t
>   include the “keep/delete” options we have in the Read Netlist dialog?
> 
>   (It appears to mostly do a delete, but not
>   entirely: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1682970 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1682970>
>   <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1682970 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1682970>> )
> 
>   (Are the Read Netlist dialog radio buttons really meant to be
>   centered?  They look distinctly odd.)
> 
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