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Re: 5.1 UI feedback

 

I’ve merged this suggestion.

Unfortunately wxGrid conspires against us in trying to present the buttons when the grid cell is focused, but you do get them once you try to edit the cell.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 20 Jul 2018, at 13:52, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> No need.  I’ve just about got it implemented so a reminder would be surplus to requirements. ;)
> 
>> On 20 Jul 2018, at 12:32, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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