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Re: Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

 

Hey Jeff,

I'll try to check it out this weekend if I can find the time.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 3/1/2018 8:44 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> The table editor is already done.  That wasn’t controversial (since it was already a table-style presentation).  You can play with that on my branch: https://git.launchpad.net/~jeyjey/kicad/.  (If you do, have a look at the whizzy new DRC highlighting too: generate some errors, right click over a marker in the DRC window, and hover back and forth between the items in the popup.)
> 
> The screen-shotted in the previous post is from the Edit Symbol dialog, but I haven’t removed the old stuff yet so I didn’t screen-shot the whole dialog.  Sounds like it’s worth at least a few more hours to clean out the old stuff and see what it’s like?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
>> On 1 Mar 2018, at 13:08, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I'm not seeing this correctly but your editor is only showing the
>> fields for a single symbol.  I thought you were replacing the current
>> table editor where you could group symbols and edit field values for
>> group of symbols rather than each symbol individually.  I would like to
>> see what you have currently done embedded in the symbol properties
>> editor to replace the one at a time field editing that we currently have.
>>
>> On 3/1/2018 7:29 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
>>>
>>>
>>> On the plus side it’s much more direct to edit stuff (without having to
>>> select the field first to get its properties set in the controls).
>>>
>>> On the minus side it is perhaps a bit more industrial looking.
>>>
>>>
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