On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:36:45AM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > Would anyone be opposed to me making the reference and value fields in > > "footprint properties" directly editable, so you don't have to click Edit > > and > > call up a second dialog if you don't need to modify font properties? Seems > > like > > an obvious improvement, but I don't know why they're not editable in the > > first > > place so I want to make sure there's nothing I'm missing to get in the way. > > I sometime wondered about it, too... also the 'read only' fields are > shown as normal fields and it's immediate to think about typing in them!
Yes - if somebody says no, I'm going to at least set them disabled so it's obvious. I'd consider that a minor UI bug. > > Most probably they are done in that way because there are other > properties (size, alignment and so on) attached to the text but I don't > think it would be problematic to allow changing the string from there. > > Anyway, think about it a second: these texts come from the netlist > (except when editing a module from the library); it's actually a use > case changing the string manually? it will be overwritten next time the > netlist is read! I suggested changing it because I just tried it. I know what I'm doing. ;) They most certainly can be edited, though one doesn't do it often. A "common" use case is swapping two parts - I had two resistor footprints on this PCB, one of which I had edited to have a copper short across it (jumper footprints for rare debug use, can be cut by the person doing development to avoid having to install an actual jumper in most boards), and I wanted to quickly swap the shorted part with its companion open part. > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > CZ Srl - Parma _______________________________________________ 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