[Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Jeff Young]

What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:



On the plus side it’s much more direct to edit stuff (without having to select 
the field first to get its properties set in the controls).

On the minus side it is perhaps a bit more industrial looking.___
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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On 01.03.2018 13:29, Jeff Young wrote:

> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:

Do you have actual working code for that? I've tried getting this to
work for editing pin type in the pin table, but got nowhere as widgets
wouldn't be rendered and focus was all over the place.

   Simon



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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Jeff Young]

Hi Simon,

I do.  (Pin Table and Fields Editor too.)

My guess is you tried to use a wxDataViewCtrl, which is a mess.

These are based on the wxGrid.

You can try out the pin table and fields editor (the spreadsheet icon at the 
top of a schematic window) at: https://git.launchpad.net/~jeyjey/kicad/

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 1 Mar 2018, at 12:40, Simon Richter  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 01.03.2018 13:29, Jeff Young wrote:
> 
>> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
> 
> Do you have actual working code for that? I've tried getting this to
> work for editing pin type in the pin table, but got nowhere as widgets
> wouldn't be rendered and focus was all over the place.
> 
>   Simon
> 
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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Wayne Stambaugh]

Maybe I'm not seeing this correctly but your editor is only showing the
fields for a single symbol.  I thought you were replacing the current
table editor where you could group symbols and edit field values for
group of symbols rather than each symbol individually.  I would like to
see what you have currently done embedded in the symbol properties
editor to replace the one at a time field editing that we currently have.

On 3/1/2018 7:29 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
> 
> 
> On the plus side it’s much more direct to edit stuff (without having to
> select the field first to get its properties set in the controls).
> 
> On the minus side it is perhaps a bit more industrial looking.
> 
> 
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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Jeff Young]

Hi Wayne,

The table editor is already done.  That wasn’t controversial (since it was 
already a table-style presentation).  You can play with that on my branch: 
https://git.launchpad.net/~jeyjey/kicad/.  (If you do, have a look at the 
whizzy new DRC highlighting too: generate some errors, right click over a 
marker in the DRC window, and hover back and forth between the items in the 
popup.)

The screen-shotted in the previous post is from the Edit Symbol dialog, but I 
haven’t removed the old stuff yet so I didn’t screen-shot the whole dialog.  
Sounds like it’s worth at least a few more hours to clean out the old stuff and 
see what it’s like?

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 1 Mar 2018, at 13:08, Wayne Stambaugh  wrote:
> 
> Maybe I'm not seeing this correctly but your editor is only showing the
> fields for a single symbol.  I thought you were replacing the current
> table editor where you could group symbols and edit field values for
> group of symbols rather than each symbol individually.  I would like to
> see what you have currently done embedded in the symbol properties
> editor to replace the one at a time field editing that we currently have.
> 
> On 3/1/2018 7:29 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
>> 
>> 
>> On the plus side it’s much more direct to edit stuff (without having to
>> select the field first to get its properties set in the controls).
>> 
>> On the minus side it is perhaps a bit more industrial looking.
>> 
>> 
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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Wayne Stambaugh]

Hey Jeff,

I'll try to check it out this weekend if I can find the time.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 3/1/2018 8:44 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> The table editor is already done.  That wasn’t controversial (since it was 
> already a table-style presentation).  You can play with that on my branch: 
> https://git.launchpad.net/~jeyjey/kicad/.  (If you do, have a look at the 
> whizzy new DRC highlighting too: generate some errors, right click over a 
> marker in the DRC window, and hover back and forth between the items in the 
> popup.)
> 
> The screen-shotted in the previous post is from the Edit Symbol dialog, but I 
> haven’t removed the old stuff yet so I didn’t screen-shot the whole dialog.  
> Sounds like it’s worth at least a few more hours to clean out the old stuff 
> and see what it’s like?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
>> On 1 Mar 2018, at 13:08, Wayne Stambaugh  wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I'm not seeing this correctly but your editor is only showing the
>> fields for a single symbol.  I thought you were replacing the current
>> table editor where you could group symbols and edit field values for
>> group of symbols rather than each symbol individually.  I would like to
>> see what you have currently done embedded in the symbol properties
>> editor to replace the one at a time field editing that we currently have.
>>
>> On 3/1/2018 7:29 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
>>>
>>>
>>> On the plus side it’s much more direct to edit stuff (without having to
>>> select the field first to get its properties set in the controls).
>>>
>>> On the minus side it is perhaps a bit more industrial looking.
>>>
>>>
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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Andy Peters]

> On Mar 1, 2018, at 5:29 AM, Jeff Young  wrote:
> 
> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
> 
> 

Don’t the text items have thickness and width attributes, not just one “size?”

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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Jeff Young]

Technically yes, but even the existing dialog only lets you edit both.

> On 1 Mar 2018, at 16:23, Andy Peters  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 1, 2018, at 5:29 AM, Jeff Young  wrote:
>> 
>> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
>> 
>> 
> 
> Don’t the text items have thickness and width attributes, not just one “size?”
> 
> -a
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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Nick Østergaard]

Are you not missing a lot of properties from that dialog with your
screenshot, like the orientation? Or is this only to replace the "Fields"
frame of the dialog?

2018-03-01 17:26 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young :

> Technically yes, but even the existing dialog only lets you edit both.
>
> > On 1 Mar 2018, at 16:23, Andy Peters  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 1, 2018, at 5:29 AM, Jeff Young  wrote:
> >>
> >> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
> >>
> >> 
> >
> > Don’t the text items have thickness and width attributes, not just one
> “size?”
> >
> > -a
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Re: [Kicad-developers] Alternative presentation of Symbol properties

[Jeff Young]

For the seldom-used stuff you can either go to the individual Edit Field 
dialog, or you can make more columns visible in the list (by right-clicking on 
the header).

> On 3 Apr 2018, at 08:18, Nick Østergaard  wrote:
> 
> Are you not missing a lot of properties from that dialog with your 
> screenshot, like the orientation? Or is this only to replace the "Fields" 
> frame of the dialog?
> 
> 2018-03-01 17:26 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young  >:
> Technically yes, but even the existing dialog only lets you edit both.
> 
> > On 1 Mar 2018, at 16:23, Andy Peters  > > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 1, 2018, at 5:29 AM, Jeff Young  >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> What do you guys think of this for displaying / editing symbol fields:
> >>
> >> 
> >
> > Don’t the text items have thickness and width attributes, not just one 
> > “size?”
> >
> > -a
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