On 13 May 2010 15:19, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> >> Hi Guys, >> >> Sorry I've been quiet for a while, I've been extremely busy building >> my rally car. >> > > http links to fancy pictures, please.
No problem, here is a picture-heavy page: http://www.valvers.com/Brian_S-StageRallyOpelManta-Diary I have some open-hardware projects I want to do for it. >> About a month ago I had a discussion with Wayne with regards to the >> patch that is attached. I have updated the patch so that it applies to >> the current testing branch. >> >> To refresh, this patch adds the ability to have a custom default >> setting for component field names. Thus Field1 could instead be >> Manufacturer, or any other chosen default which saves the user from >> having to input this information for every component they create. >> Currently the patch puts these defaults in the .pro project file. As >> Wayne pointed out there are two problems here: >> >> (1) The .pro project file is probably not the best place to store >> these default names. >> (2) The defaults are currently edited from the eeschema settings >> dialog, and therefore are in the wrong place for .pro project file >> settings anyway. >> >> There are a couple of formatting issues with the code and the GUI >> rules are not adhered to in this patch, so that needs cleaning up for >> a start, but I wanted to get people's opinion on where these default >> names should be stored. >> >> It would seem sane to put them in the eeschema options, this would >> mean that the settings could be left in the current GUI placement. >> >> If everyone is in agreement, or abstains then I'll tidy up the GUI >> implementation and change the patch so that the options get saved >> along with the eeschema options. I'll also tidy up the code >> formatting. >> > > The feature sounds very useful. > Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully I'll finalise it next week and get it out of the way. Best Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
