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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

The units would still be displayed, just in the box instead of out of it.  We already do this for some grids (for instance Edit > Edit All Tracks and Vias).

Cheers,
Jeff


> On 14 Mar 2018, at 13:59, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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