Thanks for the info! I'll take a look at the distributed library and SWEET design doc.
As Dick suspected, I was thinking about something a lot smaller to make searching easier for parts/footprints that I fixed and saved into a separate library. -lajos On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/18/2012 7:36 PM, lajos kamocsay wrote: >> Hello- >> >> >> I was going to add a feature to the component/module search dialog to >> display the library name if the element is found in multiple >> libraries. But then I noticed that there is a task for this in >> TODO.txt already. > > Lajos, > > The component/module search task is on my to do list. Like most things > in KiCad, there are more things to do than people to do them. > >> >> Is this an active task? Is anyone working on it already? > > I've have not done any work on this so it is not an active task. I did > however lay the ground work by adding searching capability to the > CMP_LIBRARY class. The function SearchEntryNames() is used to search > for components in a library. There are two versions of this function. > One does simple string comparisons and the other does regular expression > comparisons. The regular expression version is untested. I am not sure > if the same search code exists in the module library class. If it does, > I didn't write. > >> >> If this is not started yet, can I get some information on what you >> guys envisioned so I can take a stab at it? > > I was thinking about adding a filter button and filter string combobox > control to the component/module list dialog along with the usual > persistence mechanisms to save and load the last few filter entries. At > some point this may be made completely irrelevant when the new file > formats are implemented as Dick mentioned. > > Wayne > >> >> >> Thanks- >> -lajos >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
