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Re: Why is Select by Browser in Place Footprint turned off on Mac?

 

Ahh… that’s good to know.

I did manage to figure out how to trace it back farther (using sequential checkouts of the commits before the blame lines), but I got to the beginning of git and it was still there.


> On 14 Feb 2018, at 11:19, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hmm, ok that is seven years ago. I guess this was before we even supported osx officially.
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> 2018-02-14 11:49 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> common/dialogs/dialog_get_component.cpp line 32.
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> Blame just shows a file rename, and I wasn't sure how to track it across that so I thought someone might remember.
> 
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>> On 14 Feb 2018, at 09:00, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>> Are there no relevant info in git blame for the change? Where is it?
>> 
>> 2018-02-14 <tel:20%2018%2002%2014> 1:34 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>> I’ve got it enabled now on my build.  I’ll continue to play with it a bit….
>> 
>> > On 13 Feb 2018, at 22:44, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm sure this was done for a reason.  What that reason is I cannot say for sure.  I'm not opposed to enabling this assuming it isn't broken which I'm guessing was the case which is why it's turned off on macos builds.
>> >
>> > On 02/13/2018 04:35 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> >> Pcbnew; Place Footprint Tool; click on canvas.
>> >> Mac only has “Search by Keyword” and “List All” buttons.  No “Select by Browser”.
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