Am I just missing something, or did you reply to the wrong mail? ;) On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 05:37:16PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Chris, > > I'm not opposed to this patch. I actually prefer the footprint viewer > over the footprint search dialog for two reasons. One, the footprint > viewer uses lazy loading (it doesn't actually read the footprint files > until you select a library) so there is no lag showing the viewer due to > loading all of the footprints in every library as is the case with the > search dialog. Two, you can actually view the footprint to make sure > that is really what you want. That being said, I'm sure not everyone > shares my enthusiasm for the footprint viewer so a better solution may > be to add a separate button to launch the footprint viewer and leave the > footprint search dialog in place for users who prefer using that > instead. I promise you if we remove the footprint search dialog, > someone will file a bug report about it shortly there after. :) > > Wayne > > > On 6/18/2015 3:07 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It's come to my attention that we have another old project compatibility > > issue: > > > > https://forum.kicad.info/t/exisiting-schematic-component-not-being-found-in-library-error/976 > > > > The behavior when loading a very old project with case-insensitive part > > names isn't nice at all, there's no easy way to change them over. It > > gives suggestions for new part names, but you still have to change them > > one by one. > > > > I adapted lib-cache-rescue into a more generic project-rescue, which can > > handle multiple types of rescue cases, and added one for missing symbols > > with differently cased versions available. > > > > It looks roughly like this now (though I've changed the descriptive text > > at the top since taking that screenshot): > > > > http://misc.c4757p.com/newrescue.png > > > > Please, as many people as possible, try this out. > > > > -- > > Chris > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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