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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm just wondering if this will make typed in unit support more obvious
or if it will lead to more confusion.  I guess we could try it and see
what happens.

On 3/14/2018 11:19 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> 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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