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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon,

On 1/6/20 8:59 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 05:16:30AM -0800, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> 
>>> Apparently development versions also generate output with whitespace
>>> errors and, in one case, compute a size differently, that might also be
>>> interesting to watch in the future.
> 
>> I'm not really concerned about the warning, dire as it is worded.
>> However, I would like to know which dialog was sized differently.
>> One of the reasons we were OK with development versions is that
>> wxformbuilder is so buggy that 3.8.0 was not useable for certain
>> controls.
> 
> Regenerating pcbnew/dialogs/dialog_text_properties_base.fbp with 3.9.0
> gives a different default size (height 563 instead of 463) compared with
> the unreleased version it was generated before.[1]

This is a KiCad bug.  The default dialog size should be -1, -1 or
wxDefaultSize per the UI Guidelines[1].  Setting a default dialog size
interferes with the sizers correctly doing there job in some (all?)
cases so I'm less concerned about the difference between wxFormbuilder
versions than I am about the fact that the dialog has a hard coded size.

[1]:
https://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_ui-policy.html#dialogs-sizers

> 
> (I know the patch says 3.8.0 -- my Debian package hardcoded that, and I
> didn't fix it before rebuilding, but this is the state from the 3.9.0
> release)
> 
>    Simon
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/merge_requests/45/diffs#b56671c731bede3525b64ef8f4780a86125d86c5
> 
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