Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Add KICAD_TEMPLATE_DIR to Configure Paths... help

2018-10-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hey John, I like this solution to the translation issue better than some of the other solutions that have been proposed. I did notice that you added a function to provide the tooltip for defined env variable but you did not hook up the tooltip logic in the dialog. Are you planning to do that at

Re: [Kicad-developers] Character limitations in names

2018-10-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
This would even work for footprint file names so we could use illegal file name characters in footprint names although it would be a bit verbose. It definitely would be more readable than using hex numbers. It is definitely something I would consider. On 9/28/2018 2:56 PM, Jeff Young wrote: > We

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Add KICAD_TEMPLATE_DIR to Configure Paths... help

2018-10-01 Thread John Beard
Hi, Small patch that: * Adds KICAD_TEMPLATE_DIR and KICAD_USER_TEMPLATE_DIR to the help dialog in Configure Paths... * Documents KICAD_PTEMPLATES as deprecated. * Moves some generic functions to do with env variables to a separate file. This means env var help text is no longer embedded in a