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Re: Tools for editing/creating UI elements in KiCad?

 

Your hand assembly assistant sounds exactly like what my plugin does, here
is an example:
https://openscopeproject.org/InteractiveHtmlBomDemo/html/OSPx201.html
Plugin is here:

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 7:36 AM Brian <lotharyx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Reviving some conversation that's happened over the years...what are the
> favored tools for editing and/or creating the wxWidgets UI elements for
> KiCad?  Hopefully not "vi"...
>
> On the one hand, I suppose I could always just go my own way with my own
> fork, but I'd like to wind up with something possibly re-integratable
> when I'm done (the current idea is creating a hand-assembly assistant --
> a simple UI that will select/highlight parts in pcbnew to help me get my
> eyes on the right spot on the real board, and let me check off the parts
> as I place them, etc).
>
> I found some discussion surrounding wxFormBuilder from 2008, and I know
> that CMake can generate project files for CodeLite, which features
> wxFormBuilder integration... so is that the recommended path?
>
> Cheers,
> -Brian
>
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