Would patches to make some of the simpler dialogs programmatic be accepted?
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > We've been dancing around this issue for a while without any real > resolution. I'm fine with using Mark's version of wxFB but a lot folks > are going to want to use whatever is packaged for their distro rather > than build wxFB from source which presents a serious issue. I'm not > sure there is a good answer for this problem. If no one else has any > objections, I'm willing to make Mark's wxFB fork the official version > for KiCad dialog submission for the time being. In the long run, if > wxFB is not actively being developed, I would rather come up with an > alternative. > > FWIW, I think most of you know how I feel about dialog creation tools > vs. creating them programmatically. Kicad's dialogs used to be created > this way but I got out voted at the time the decision was made to switch > to wxFB. I'm feeling better about my choice all the time. ;) > > On 9/2/2016 7:11 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >> I would vote in favor of using Mark's fork officially for everyone, if >> it builds okay on all the platforms. wxfb is kinda nasty, if we're going >> to use it it's nice to have our own fork that solves at least a few of >> these issues. >> >> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 08:45:12AM +1000, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >>> I just use MRoszko's fork; it's cleaner than the original and much >>> easier to configure and build since the bizarre wxFB build system >>> had been eradicated and replaced by CMake. >>> >>> git clone https://github.com/marekr/wxFormBuilder.git wxfb >>> cd wxfb && git checkout wxFB3.5-1 >>> >>> A half year or so ago I tried the later wxFB in development but it >>> broke so many things that I just reverted the files and went back to >>> wxFB3,5-1. >>> >>> - Cirilo >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Along these lines: this isn't the first time wxfb version issues have >>>> come up. Perhaps we should pick an "official" wxfb version for the >>>> project to use, and then actually provide builds of it for developer use >>>> (as it can be a bit annoying to track down a specific version)? Then we >>>> can upgrade together as new versions come out. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 09:16:41AM +1200, Simon Wells wrote: >>>>> dialog_pad_properties_base.fbp h cpp was last modified in commit >>>>> >>>>> 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213 >>>>> https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id= >>>> 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213 >>>>> >>>>> the problem is this version of wxformbuilder is newer than the one >>>>> available on sourceforge and it is very difficult to build on other >>>>> platforms ( i tried a while ago and gave up as it had issues) >>>>> >>>>> the version that was used to save these files has broken it on older >>>>> versions of wxformbuilder >>>>> >>>>> Is there a version of wxformbuilder that we should be using to avoid >>>>> it breaking on other versions? >>>>> >>>>> the last available from sf.net is 3.5rc1 iirc >>>>> >>>>> thanks >>>>> >>>>> Simon >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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