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[Russell Oliver <roliver8143@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm what about displaying that info in the dialog title?

Also might be useful to show if the footprint can be found on disk (as
opposed from cache) and if so the path to its file.

On 28 Feb 2018 17:33, "Andy Peters" <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nowhere in the pcbnew footprint properties dialog does it say the name (and
source library) of the footprint whose properties are being displayed! This
is a weird oversight.

This little bit of info is useful! For example, my DRC check complained
about “footprint C7 has malformed courtyard.” OK, I look at the footprint’s
properties to see what it’s called (because who can remember) and it’s not
in that dialog.

To be fair, when a footprint is selected, its relevant details are shown in
the status bar on the bottom of the screen, and that includes the footprint
name. But still …

This is with a current nightly build.

-a
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