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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi JP,

On 11/8/19 7:51 AM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 06/11/2019 à 21:34, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>> I finally finish up the initial attempt at simple inheritance for the
>> symbol library code.  The change is non-trivial and will likely have
>> some unexpected side affects that I missed.  I pushed the branch to my
>> personal repo[1] and I would like a few pair of extra eyes on it before
>> I merge it into master.  If you prefer, I can set up a merge request
>> from this branch in Launchpad.
>>
>> The biggest user facing change is that the concept of aliases is gone
>> which means internally, the LIB_ALIAS object has been removed and all of
>> the information it managed was moved into LIB_PART.  This actually
>> simplified some of the UI code but made the LIB_MANAGER and LIB_PART
>> object code more complicated.  The symbol library editor works
>> significantly different now.  When you select a derived part (formerly a
>> LIB_ALIAS), it will show the parent symbol that it was derived from
>> darkened and all of the edit features disabled.  Until the new symbol
>> file format is done and writing to the legacy symbol file format is
>> deprecated, this restriction will have to remain in place.  The
>> properties editor no longer has an aliases panel and is limited to what
>> it can change in the derived or parent symbols depending on which symbol
>> is currently being edited.  I suspect this will be the biggest stumbling
>> block for existing users so if you can think of a better way to handle
>> this, I'm open to suggestion.  The other thing that I am concerned about
>> is symbol library editing.  There were a lot of LIB_MANAGER object
>> changes which I am not 100% confident in.
>>
>> Just a couple of other internal changes to be aware of:
>>
>> A flattened copy of the symbol is used in SCH_COMPONENT instead of
>> relying on the weak reference to the library symbol.  This way we don't
>> have to worry about the shared pointer disappearing and causing issues.
>> However, this will require that we be diligent about updating modified
>> symbol libraries in the schematic.  Otherwise, the schematic could
>> change the next time it is loaded.  I'm open to changing this back if we
>> think it's going to be an issue.
>>
>> There is now a compare function for the LIB_PART object which can be
>> rather tricky.  I created a new test suite inside the current LIB_PART
>> test file so if you change anything, please run the test to ensure
>> nothing gets broken.  I also added a bunch of other new tests for the
>> LIB_PART object.
>>
>> I added code to DIALOG_SHIM to allow the caller to reset the last dialog
>> size when hiding dialog control state changes between dialog instances.
>> We have some dialog windows that are not the correct default size
>> depending on which controls are shown so there is now a convenient way
>> to address this.
>>
>> Please let me know if you find anything so I can get it fixed and merged
>> into master.  The next step is to convert the schematic internal units
>> from 1mil to 10nm.  Once that step is complete, I will knock out the new
>> symbol library format.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> [1]:https://code.launchpad.net/~stambaughw/kicad/+git/kicad-dev/+ref/lib-alias-merge
>>
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I did not really have a look into the code, but I encountered an issue
> in DIALOG_EDIT_COMPONENT_IN_LIBRARY dialog: the page 0 is incorrectly
> drawn (the page 1 is drawn as background of page 0).
> 
> Attached a patch that fixes this issue (already encountered in
> simulation options frame).
> 
> To remove a page from a wxNotebook, using Hide() is incorrect: one can
> hide a widget inside a page, not the page itself.
> (RemovePage must be used instead)
> 
> Hide() the panel can work on some platforms, but not all.
> Moreover Show() the panel draws this panel in the background of the
> active panel!
> Strange result...

Good catch and thanks for the patch.  I merged it pushed it to the my
development branch along with some other fixes.

Cheers,

Wayne

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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