kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Seth,

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1660156 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1660156>

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 13 Mar 2018, at 15:39, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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?
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
>