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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I second this motion.  I didn't find the right click trick so I fell
back to cvpcb which is overkill to change the footprint of a single
symbol.  A tooltip might be useful here as well.

On 7/19/2018 3:19 PM, Diego Herranz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've started to test these changes and, on the Symbol properties dialog,
> I found it hard to assign a footprint.
> Before, there used to be a button to open the Footprint selector window.
> Now you seem to need right click on the footprint field and "select
> footprint" and that only works if you're not editing the text of that
> field. It took me a while to find out.
> I don't find it straightforward.
> 
> Maybe a double-click on that field should open the Footprint selector?
> Maybe a button like attached? (Mind my poor mock-up)
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks for all the work on this.
> 
> Diego
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 6:00 PM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Changes in.  Could Kevin or Wayne please post the following dialogs
>     one more time:
> 
>     1) Change Footprints
>     2) CvPCB (with footprint selected from right column)
>     3) Footprint Properties
>     4) Edit Track & Via Properties
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Jeff.
> 
>     > On 18 Jul 2018, at 15:28, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Yeah, the “Show” label of the Output Messages checkboxes is
>     misplaced too.
>     >
>     > I’ll have another build along shortly….
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Jeff.
>     >
>     >
>     >> On 18 Jul 2018, at 15:05, Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On 2018-07-18 08:32 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     >>> Attached are the updated screen shots.
>     >>
>     >> One minor point. In the first screen shot the icon with the books
>     and magnifying glass is on the right side of the dialog the first
>     time it appears but is just after the end of the entry field the
>     second time it appears.
>     >>
>     >> It would look a little better if they were in the same relative
>     horizontal position.
>     >>
>     >> --
>     >> Cheers!
>     >>
>     >> Kevin.
>     >>
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