Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-20 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Hi Miguel, I have nothing against. To tell the truth, when I started working on the library wizard I was misled by the class name and started looking through the footprint wizard code you mention. Regards, Orson On 03/20/2015 10:31 AM, Miguel Ángel Ajo wrote: Wow, nice work! jp, maciej,

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-20 Thread jp charras
Le 20/03/2015 10:31, Miguel Ángel Ajo a écrit : Wow, nice work! jp, maciej, what do you think about renaming this to Library Wizard? or something equivalent? I believe it’s a bit confusing since the scripting footprint wizard has the same name, and they are for totally different

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-20 Thread Maciej Sumiński
On 03/19/2015 08:42 AM, jp charras wrote: Good work! Thanks to you, Orson a Tomasz It looks fine on W7, but I have some remarks: 1 - the proposed nickname contains the file or directory extension. The current convention is to use the basic name (without extension). Footprint names should

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-20 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 20.03.2015 11:37, jp charras wrote: Le 20/03/2015 10:31, Miguel Ángel Ajo a écrit : Wow, nice work! jp, maciej, what do you think about renaming this to Library Wizard? or something equivalent? I believe it’s a bit confusing since the scripting footprint wizard has the same name, and

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-20 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 01:00:19PM +0100, jp charras wrote: If the full set of libraries is not included in the package, many issues will be removed, namely: - overwriting existing libs by new libs. - The distribution file could be smaller (libs are more than 50% of the size of compressed

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-20 Thread jp charras
Le 20/03/2015 11:45, Tomasz Wlostowski a écrit : On 20.03.2015 11:37, jp charras wrote: Le 20/03/2015 10:31, Miguel Ángel Ajo a écrit : Wow, nice work! jp, maciej, what do you think about renaming this to Library Wizard? or something equivalent? I believe it’s a bit confusing since the

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 3/20/2015 5:18 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: On 03/19/2015 08:42 AM, jp charras wrote: Good work! Thanks to you, Orson a Tomasz It looks fine on W7, but I have some remarks: 1 - the proposed nickname contains the file or directory extension. The current convention is to use the basic name

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-19 Thread jp charras
Le 18/03/2015 16:06, Maciej Sumiński a écrit : The new wizard is ready, available either as a patch (attached to this message) or in a Github repository [1]. It is not in the product branch yet, as I wanted to have a few confirmations that it works on some other machines than mine,

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-18 Thread Adam Wolf
Hi Maciej, I will test this over the next few days on OS X. Adam Wolf Cofounder and Engineer WL On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Maciej Sumiński maciej.sumin...@cern.ch wrote: The new wizard is ready, available either as a patch (attached to this message) or in a Github repository [1]. It

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Maciej Sumiński
On 03/09/2015 06:50 PM, Mark Roszko wrote: A+++ Always hated the environment variables because your typical electrical engineer/non power user would not know wtf they are. Anyone developing kicad is already above average. File extension idea is good too. I suggest keeping the separate file

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Carl Poirier
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Maciej Sumiński maciej.sumin...@cern.ch wrote: Hi Carl, The dialog would be common for both ways. If the user chooses local files option, then a file browser appears and then as the last step - the summary dialog. Regards, Orson That's not what I want to

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Maciej Sumiński
Hi Carl, The dialog would be common for both ways. If the user chooses local files option, then a file browser appears and then as the last step - the summary dialog. Regards, Orson On 03/09/2015 06:50 PM, Carl Poirier wrote: Hi Orson, It looks great, but I have one comment. I think there

[Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Maciej Sumiński
As we are inevitably approaching the feature freeze, I would like to know your opinion about one last change to the footprint library wizard. We would like to make the library management as simple as possible. Therefore Tom has prepared an alternative set of dialog windows for the footprint

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Carl Poirier
Hi Orson, It looks great, but I have one comment. I think there should be one template for both the table in Review and confirm the changes to the libraries and the fp-lib-table presented in the parent dialog. My 2¢. Carl On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Maciej Sumiński maciej.sumin...@cern.ch

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Mark Roszko
A+++ Always hated the environment variables because your typical electrical engineer/non power user would not know wtf they are. Anyone developing kicad is already above average. File extension idea is good too. I suggest keeping the separate file filters in addition to an all filter if you go

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Mark Roszko
The concern is that if you select from KiCad github and its say the official Kicad group, then that's alot of libraries to download and install. Nothing wrong with doing that but perhaps instead just the Next should be disabled until at least one library is selected.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread tiger12506
Just one minor detail, I would probably choose to have all selected as the default. Users don't like to read, and the less action they have to take, the happier they will be. Otherwise, you might have a lot of users with an empty table.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Nick Østergaard
2015-03-09 19:34 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com: On 3/9/2015 1:23 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: As we are inevitably approaching the feature freeze, I would like to know your opinion about one last change to the footprint library wizard. Your proposal looks reasonable to me. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 3/9/2015 2:59 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2015-03-09 19:34 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com: On 3/9/2015 1:23 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: As we are inevitably approaching the feature freeze, I would like to know your opinion about one last change to the footprint library

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 3/9/2015 1:23 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: As we are inevitably approaching the feature freeze, I would like to know your opinion about one last change to the footprint library wizard. Your proposal looks reasonable to me. I have one comment nn the first image. The string at the bottom

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Mark Roszko
Be very careful with relative paths on windows and in general. There should be a test to make sure the relative paths don't cross drive boundaries on windows. I would argue on Windows that relative paths that cross drive boundaries should be made absolute to that drive automatically. i.e. I may

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Footprint wizard

2015-03-09 Thread Adam Wolf
Mark, github repos can be used without installing. Adam Wolf Cofounder and Engineer WL On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Mark Roszko mark.ros...@gmail.com wrote: The concern is that if you select from KiCad github and its say the official Kicad group, then that's alot of libraries to download