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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought there was already a bug for this (reported by Gabriel perhaps?), but I can’t seem to find it.

> On 19 Jul 2018, at 20:40, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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 <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>
>>    <mailto: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>
>>    <mailto: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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