Hi Wayne, The units would still be displayed, just in the box instead of out of it. We already do this for some grids (for instance Edit > Edit All Tracks and Vias).
Cheers, Jeff > On 14 Mar 2018, at 13:59, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/13/2018 5:58 AM, Jeff Young wrote: >> There’s a wishlish item to make support for typed-in units more discoverable. >> >> I think the easiest way to do this is to adopt a policy of removing unit >> static-texts following a value textCtrl in favour of displaying the current >> units in the text. > > I can't imagine this not leading to a bug report. While I agree the > units static text doesn't help to make typed-in units support more > obvious, I don't really see how it hurts either. At least the user has > an indication of the current units. Maybe a fancy wxRichTooltip[1] > would be a decent solution to let users know about typed in unit support. > >> >> If the user clicks into the control and types only a number, we’ll assume >> current units and display them with the value when the textCtrl loses focus. >> >> We already have all the code to support this. I can clean up existing >> dialogs when I fix them for the eradication of g_UserUnit. >> >> Thoughts? >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
