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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:03 AM Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> One possible solution for the translation could be put the ":" in a
> different column of the table and right-align the field description text
> (so all the colons will be aligned). A rapid google search shown that in
> French and Vietnamese there should be a space before the colon, while in
> the rest of the world there is not, so having the translation for the
> ":" word seems to make sense. Also another question arises: Is there
> some language in which the colon should be another character before the
> word? (I'm thinking about spanish where the question mark upside-down
> appears before a question...)? ...conclusion: keeping "Height:" and
> "Height" as two different words seem to be the solution that gives
> maximum flexibility to translators.
>
>
This actually doesn't give them as much flexibility. When translations are
done, they need to examine the entire string that needs translating, so the
":" character should be included in the string. Separating out the two
portions is the equivalent of saying that every lanugage will follow the
same compositional rules.


> Another possible solution (probably better then the one above since it
> just removes the problem) is to remove the ":" and have the cell borders
> in a different color, just like the tables in the "board setup" dialog
> (so that you can also take a look at that code to solve also the color
> problem seeing how it was solved there). The advantage of this approach
> is also having a more consistent "look" through all the dialogs.
>
>
>
> P.S. (a little bit off-topic):
> If you move the statistic window and check/uncheck one of the checkboxes
> ("subctract holes...." or "Exclude components...") the window "jumps" to
> the center of the screen (its default position on open): do you have
> also this behaviour or it is just on my debian-linux with gtk3?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dino.
>
> On 22/07/19 10:13, Alexander Shuklin wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I'll have a look to add vias count to dialog.
> > There's some questions:
> >
> > 1)I don't have too much experience with wxdialogs. There was commit on
> > master, which says:
> >  >> remove settings for fg/bg color: the result is unpredictable: was
> > black texts on black background on my computer.
> > And now I have all tables with data just in white boxes. Is it how it
> > meant to be, or just some misbehavior on different systems? I use
> > archlinux x64 OS.
> > there's screenshot in attachment
> >
> > 2) Can we use something like _( "Height" ) + ":" for translation, not _(
> > "Height:" )? As far as I understand, now we will need to have 2
> > translations, first for "Height" and second for "Height:" but that's
> > basically same word.
> >
> >     Воскресенье, 21 июля 2019, 23:42 +03:00 от Dino Ghilardi
> >     <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >     Makes sense.
> >     Instead of a generic "via count" a more complete table similar to the
> >     one generated in the drill report file could be useful, but may be it
> >     can became quite long if a lot of different drill sizes are used (ok,
> >     scrollbars are made to handle that).
> >     Also having "vias", "blind vias" and "microvias" count man make sense
> >     (or at least having something like "microvias used: yes/no"), just to
> >     have in board statistics the information about the need of an
> advanced
> >     pcb manufacturing process.
> >
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Dino.
> >
> >
> >     On 21/07/19 20:54, Mark Roszko wrote:
> >      > > Since making every hole in the pcb costs time,  manufacturers
> >      > calculate the price of the PCB using also that number.
> >      >
> >      > A long time ago, holes cost alot. These days if your manufacturer
> is
> >      > charging alot per hole, you should run far away. Usually
> >     manufactuers
> >      > include 20k-40k holes in the base price per panel before they
> start
> >      > charging you tiny penny amounts for more in some increments of
> >      > thousands. The CNC machines these days as blazing fast at making
> the
> >      > holes required and they charge more for the drill bit being worn
> >     down
> >      > than the time.
> >      >
> >      > What does actually cost money is via type and size. Blind vias
> make
> >      > layer stackups a pain in the butt and micro vias needing lasers.
> >      > And also going below some via size can significantly add cost
> >     even if
> >      > not at microvia size because it requires different machines with
> >     more
> >      > precision and smaller drill bits.
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > If anything I would say to break down the statistics based on via
> >     type.
> >      >
> >      > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 1:55 PM Dino Ghilardi
> >     <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx <mailto:dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>
> >      > <mailto:dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > I just tried the board statistics dialog and looks good, I like
> it.
> >      >
> >      > A thing I'd like to have to make it better is adding the number
> >     of vias
> >      > to the statistics: Since making every hole in the pcb costs time,
> >      > manufacturers calculate the price of the PCB using also that
> number.
> >      >
> >      > Also the option to save or print a text with the statistics report
> >      > would
> >      > be nice.
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > Cheers,
> >      > Dino.
> >      >
> >
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> > Alexander Shuklin
>
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