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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have uploaded a build of the eemodern branch on
https://jenkins.simonrichter.eu/job/windows-kicad-msys2-patch/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/out/pack-x86_64/kicad-patched-330-5.1.0-437-gc807783d7-x86_64.exe


On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 14:06, Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This is well beyond my capabilities, but I have been wondering if having tabbed schematics is a viable feature for eeSchema?
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> Currently you have to open another instance of eeSchema or click through to sheets in order to see other sheets. Tabs would be more convenient than clicking on a sheet (or multiple levels of sheets), backing out, etc., at least in many circumstances. So, rather than leaving the current sheet when clicking down one would open a tab.
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> In terms of implementation, although, again, this is well beyond my abilities it seems to me tabbed sheets would mostly be an issue of selecting which to render and to treat as “on top” or in focus. eeSchema files are tiny so memory would likely not be an issue.
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> Anyhow I thought I’d suggest it.
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> Also, I see lots of talk about the “modern eeSchema”. Since I have a few boards to lay out I’d like to test it, but I don’t know where the download is. I am on Windows and I can build from source.
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> Brian Piccioni
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