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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-06-09 10:29, Reece R. Pollack wrote:
> Sorry about the delay in responding. I've been traveling.
>
> I don't believe overloading the base instance of GetMsgPanelInfo() and
> GetSelectMenuText() will achieve the desired goal. Overloading
> functions works great when the _caller_ wants to choose between
> variants of a function. In this case, though, the call is being made
> via a pointer to a EDA_ITEM (in EDA_DRAW_FRAME::SetMsgPanel(),
> currently at common/legacy_gal/eda_draw_frame.cpp:582). The caller has
> no knowledge of whether the object requires the third parameter or
> not. Since EDA_DRAW_FRAME is common to all applications, it's an all
> or none situation.

Hi Reece-

The calls toe SetMsgPanel() come from the application.  You can use a 
default parameter here (and in UpdateMsgPanel()) to avoid touching the 
non-pcbnew applications with the patchset.

-Seth