On 12 February 2014 14:54, Tomasz Wlostowski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/12/2014 09:34 AM, Henner Zeller wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Choosing components in the schematics editor is very cumbersome right now. >> (...) >> >> >> So I sat down and thought about how it _should_ be. >> >> This is what I came up with, see patch: >> >> - interactive search-as-you-type > > > Hi Henner,
Gruetziwohl to Switzerland, > > I just compiled eeschema with the patch. The browser is simply *awesome*! Thanks :) > I sincerely hope we'll see more cool stuff from you :-) > > >> There is another feature I'd like to add in a separate patch: show a >> little >> drawing of the currently selected component in the left bottom corner >> (left blank right now) when selected with the mouse popping up the library >> viewer. I left it as a dummy in this patch as I didn't want to make it too >> big. > >> (...) > >> Of course, you might have suggestions - let me know what to improve. > > > Few extra features that came to my mind: > - footprint/3D preview, In general, we need a better way to connect schematic symbol with footprint. CvPcb can't be the solution forever :) At this component select state, there is no footprint chosen yet, so we can't display it right away. > - browser as a dockable window instead of dialog, Yes, if this would pop up next to the mouse in smaller, this could be really useful. I don't have much experience with wxWidgets yet, but will play with that. > - possibility to assign the footprint on the schematic, > - and save the above to the SCH library. I haven't thought in detail about the footpring/schematic problem, but it is definitiely one other thing that bugs me. I might formulate that in C++ one day :) > > This may soon become possible thanks to the DLLization work being done. > > >> >> Download it here: >> >> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/master...component-chooser-experiment.diff >> > BTW. Are you using git-bzr-ng or some other tool to work on bzr repos with > git? I don't have to do anything bzr related or use a git-bzr-ng. I fork off the github bazaar mirror by Blair Bonnett and then have local branches that I can work with in my own github space. Github provides the UI to display the whole change as nice visual diff or download it as unified diff. (There is a KiCad github mirror as well, but it is typically out-of-date, Blair's is updating more frequently.) -h > > Cheers, > Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

