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[James Jackson <james.a.f.jackson.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian,

Great to know that I'm not the only one who thought it a useful addition.
Really happy to collaborate, and to try and unpick those issues. As I'm not
the KiCad dev it'll take me a little while to figure out the code flow, but
no harm in having a crack. Great if you were able to bring your branch up
to date - and yes, git can be a pain to conceptually grasp. I've never
reached the level of fluency with it I'd like.

Yours,
James.

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 2:33 PM Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello James
>
> I had been working on this for some time and ran into a brick wall so I
> set it aside.
>
> There seems to be an issue with the structures used within eeSchema
> (sheets, screens, etc.) which don't seem to consistently track UUIDs, etc.
> I suspect that this may be because eeSchema started as a single page app
> then added hierarchies. Currently, annotate has an essentially binary
> approach (whole schematic or single page) and, in theory it should be
> possible to add those functions but you end up with bad pointers, display
> not refreshing, etc..
>
> I put out several requests for the devs for help but, given the lock down
> got no replies.
>
> I implemented similar functionality for PCBNew. My gitlab is
> https://gitlab.com/bjpiccioni/kicad and the branch is annotate if you
> want to take a look. It is out of date because I got really frustrated
> trying to unnscramble it. All the menus, etc., are done, the problem is
> just that the result doesn't work.
>
>
> If you want to collaborate, let me know. And I'll try bring it up to date
> with the current dev branch of Kicad. Alas I find git to be a  nightmare.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On 2020-05-07 9:19 a.m., James Jackson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly thanks Wayne for adding me to the list - long time KiCad user for
> hobby stuff, but I've got a background (partially) in fast real-time
> mixed-signal electronics.
>
> Working on a fairly large personal project recently, with many nested and
> shared schematics, I would really have liked the ability to only
> automatically annotate either a selected block of components, and/or only a
> subset of the component types. I haven't done an KiCad UI-facing dev work
> (or, frankly, much at all bar poking around in the code a little bit) but
> I'd be happy to have a bash at implementing it - but would welcome others'
> thoughts. I can't find any mention of it in roadmaps etc.
>
> *Proposal*: Add the ability to annotate only a selected block and / or
> only specific component types
> *UI Flow: *Two changes required, as detailed below. As described, they do
> not change the current default UI flow, but offer up more options for users
> should they wish to use them:
>
>    1. Add a new menu item to the block selection context menu, with text
> 'Annotate block...'. On clicking, takes the user to the current 'Annotate
> Schematic' dialog.
>    2. Modify the 'Annotate Schematic' dialog to include:
>        a. Within the 'Scope' radio button selection list, add 'Use the
> current selected block' (not enabled if the dialog is entered the existing
> way through the Tools menu) - autoselected if dialog entered through the
> block context menu
>        b. Add a checklist containing the prefixes of component types
> available for annotation (i.e. 'R', 'C', 'U', whatever...). Default to all
> being selected.
>
> I'd welcome thoughts on this proposal, and also, if people think it's
> worth looking at, any pointers to a quick guide to KiCad dev wrt branch
> handling. I.e., do developers work to the head of the repository or the
> last stable release, etc etc? I couldn't find anything on this hiding in
> the dev docs. I can figure the rest out (internationalisation, code
> structures, etc etc).
>
> Yours,
> James.
>
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