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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff-

I can't find which bug report this can you send the link?  I'm not sure
that I follow what the issue is and I'd like to understand the problem it's
addressing.

Thanks!
-S

2018-03-13 2:58 GMT-07:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>:

> There’s a wishlish item to make support for typed-in units more
> discoverable.
>
> I think the easiest way to do this is to adopt a policy of removing unit
> static-texts following a value textCtrl in favour of displaying the current
> units in the text.
>
> If the user clicks into the control and types only a number, we’ll assume
> current units and display them with the value when the textCtrl loses focus.
>
> We already have all the code to support this.  I can clean up existing
> dialogs when I fix them for the eradication of g_UserUnit.
>
> Thoughts?
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