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Re: 5.1 UI feedback

 

I don't remember seeing a bug report for that just Diego's post to the
mailing list.  If you want me to, I will create a bug report.

On 07/19/2018 03:53 PM, Jeff Young 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
>> <mailto: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>> 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>> 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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