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

 

Sorry, somehow sent the email prematurely without the link to plugin

https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:18 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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