Hi Piotr (and others)please find the patch attached, as requested. I've redesigned the "find" dialog a bit and removed the "find next marker" in the DRC dialog again, as I found it's not necessery, as on the same dialog, there is the list of markers available.
Have fun Simon-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Simon Huwyler
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:57 AM To: Lorenzo Marcantonio ; Kicad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Highlithing components with a certain value I have only now noticed that naming the checkbox "mark all components" is not so good because there is a button called "find marker", and here, "marker" means something completely different (DRC marker) But I think, the "find" dialog is not a good place for this. Yes, I want to "find" a marker. But, as far I can see, this button only "finds" the next marker, and the search field is ignored. So, it's not a "ctrl-f" function at all. Ok, here's what I suggest: - Move this function to the DCR dialog. Honestly, this is where you would suppose the button that shows you the next DRC marker. And it's near the "remove all markers" then. - add a button to the "find" dialog saying "remove all marks" - maybe find a new word for "mark" for this purpose we are discussing about here that is not so near the "DRC marker". "highligtht"? I still think, just highlighting is not enough... This way, everything is where you would expect it.-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Simon Huwyler
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 11:46 PM To: Lorenzo Marcantonio ; Kicad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Highlithing components with a certain value Ok, I was experimenting a little bit. Please see the attached picture. I searched for all components valued with "470" and afterwards "supp40". As the marks are not (yet) removed before a new search, you can see both results. The highlighting alone is only visible in high contrast mode. Maybe I did something wrong. But nevertheless, I like the circles. They are very well visible also for small components and show well, where the component is (in the center of the circle. I just decided to set the radius to the arithmetic mean of the x- and y size of the bounding box. Of course, the shape as well as the size can still be optimized. BTW: due to these circles, I named the checkbox "mark all matches" instead of "highlight all matches". What do you think? And then: How do we get rid of the marks again? A button named "unmark all"? Where? On the search dialog? I have no clue at the moment...-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Simon Huwyler
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 6:44 PM To: Lorenzo Marcantonio ; Kicad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Highlithing components with a certain value I don't know. That's why I wanted to experimen. I don't know if you cann see a 0603 footprint on a 100mmx100mm board, if it's highlighted. Maybe yes, then it's fine. But I just looked at a highlighted net. It's perfect for showing a net, but I think, if it was only a tiny 0603 footprint, I would hardly see it.-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Lorenzo Marcantonio
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 6:40 PM To: Kicad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Highlithing components with a certain value On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 06:30:47PM +0200, Simon Huwyler wrote:
board. Maybe something completely differen would be better? A circle around the component? ... what do you think?
We already have highlighting code *and* the extended palette to support it. Why invent something else? -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developersMore help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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