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Message #34558
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?
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> Cheers,
> Jeff.
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>
>> On 1 Mar 2018, at 13:08, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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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