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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/13/2018 5:58 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> 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.

I can't imagine this not leading to a bug report.  While I agree the
units static text doesn't help to make typed-in units support more
obvious, I don't really see how it hurts either.  At least the user has
an indication of the current units.  Maybe a fancy wxRichTooltip[1]
would be a decent solution to let users know about typed in unit support.

> 
> 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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