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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

Can you send a screenshot of CvPCB with status text at the bottom?  I used a different strategy for setting the text size there which hopefully works better on Windows.

Thanks,
Jeff.


> On 17 Jul 2018, at 19:32, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> See attached image for windows.
> 
> There is something very odd going on with some of the dialogs where it
> looks like a control is constantly being refreshed as though it is in
> some kind of event loop.  Did you make any changes to DIALOG_SHIM that
> could cause this?  It is the most noticeable in the schematic plot
> dialog page size selection drop down control.
> 
> All dialogs that have text in the dialog button sizer look terrible on
> windows.  The text is way too big and messes up the button sizer.  I try
> to avoid using anything but the standard text size in controls.  They
> never seem to be consistent between platforms.  I would prefer if you
> find a better place for this text.  Maybe a static text control at the
> top of dialog or possible the title bar.  See fp-props-dialog.png.
> 
> There are quite a few dialogs that have incorrect padding in the
> standard button sizer.  I'm sure I fixed most (all) of these before we
> branched stable 5.  See change-fp-dialog.png.
> 
> 
> On 7/17/2018 2:04 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> As long as they’re coming in in onesies and twosies email is fine.  If
>> they start coming in thicker and faster bug reports are probably better.
>> 
>> Can you send me a screenshot of the Edit Spice Model… button?  I assume
>> it looks different than on OSX:
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>> 
>>> On 17 Jul 2018, at 18:52, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 7/17/2018 1:08 PM, jp charras wrote:
>>>> Le 17/07/2018 à 18:22, Jeff Young a écrit :
>>>>> Hi JP,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I merged another version of the Netclass Membership editor.  Let me
>>>>> know what you think.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It is must better now.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Do you want bugs reported against these changes or are you just looking
>>> for general feedback?  I found a size and alignment issue with the "Edit
>>> Spice Model.." button in the symbol editor dialog.  I can file a bug
>>> report against it if you prefer.
>>> 
>>> Wayne
>>> 
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> <symbol-prop-dialog-win10.png><change-fp-dialog.png><fp-props-dialog.png>