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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I like the button idea, the same thing should be done in the schematic
field editor, that would basically replace cvpcb for most usecases.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 <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 <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 <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.
>
>
> --
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>
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