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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/1/20 12:06 PM, Brian Piccioni wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I haven't had any feedback/comments regarding my merge request or
> Annotation suggestion for quite a few days now so I don't know whether
> my comments/pushes are being broadcast or people are simply busy working
> on other things.
> 
> So, sorry for the spam.
> 
> I just added this to the Annotations epic
> (https://gitlab.com/groups/kicad/code/-/epics/19) as I have been working
> on annotation. I would appreciate any feedback on the issues mentioned
> below.
> 
> 
> 1) No undo for annotation dialog
>     Problem: eeSchema undo seems to be page confined.
>     Fixing this would probably be a good idea but a lot of work and
> likely beyond my abilities
>     at a this time. I can make a special "undo" stack for annotation as
> a stop gap.

I would reject any stop gap undo/redo code because it will just have to
be removed or refactored later.  Either we fix the undo/redo code to
include all sheet changes or we live with what we have.

> 
> 2) Annotate while adding is a WIP see
> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg42354.html
> 
> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1660134 for items 4 - 6.
> 4) Annotate selection
> 
>     I should be able to manage this
> 
> 
> 5) Anotate without a number
> 6) Annotate number only.
> 
>    5 and 6 seem pretty straightforward to implement though there are
> filters on dialogs which will
>    have to be fixed. There may be an issue with transfer between
> schematic and PCB
>    (i.e. Update PCB to/from schematic) as well as geographic annotation
> from the PCB as error
>    checking is done on all of these. I am working on a unified reference
> "splitter" for eeSchema and
>    PCBNew to ensure consistency.
> 
>    My concern is that annotation seems pretty well woven into eeSchema,
> DRC, library editor, etc., and
>    something will break if we do this. For example, having a reference
> with RK causes DRC to ask for
>    annotation as does updating PCB from Schematic. If things break they
> can be fixed, but what if the
>    breakage is only apparent on edge conditions? How can we test?
> 
> 8) Subsheets don't match multi-unit element annotations. (lp:#1788976)
>    I do not understand this
> 
> 9) Implement more (and custom?) annotation schemes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1800726
>    I have already coded prefixs to allow for IEE 200, etc.. One can then
> annotate sheet by sheet
>    to give a prefix to each sheet. Alternatively we could add a sheet
> specific symbol/flag/notation
>    which defines a prefix per sheet. I suspect that reannotating each
> sheet with a sheet prefix
>    would meet most use cases.
> 
> 10) Clear annotation does not work under MSW
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/1942
>     I cannot replicate this. The results I get are different from the
> video. It works fine for me.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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