On 02/13/2014 12:02 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
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From: Tomasz Wlostowski <[email protected]>
To: Henner Zeller <[email protected]>; KiCad Developers
<[email protected]>
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: making component choosing (much!) more
usable
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,
I just compiled eeschema with the patch. The browser is simply
*awesome*! 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,
- browser as a dockable window instead of dialog,
- possibility to assign the footprint on the schematic,
- and save the above to the SCH library.
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?
Cheers,
Tom
I like the idea of the previews - but to save computation time on 3D model
previews, I would suggest that we create PNG images which can be loaded.
If the PNG image does not exist then generate one. In the case of 3D models
an orthographic view is probably the best generic option. Some of the more
detailed models can be several MB in size (easily 6MB for a simple model)
so I suspect this can really slow things down when doing a preview without
a precomputed view.
Hi Cirilo,
I agree that model loading time may be of serious concern if we keep the
single-threaded architecture that blocks UI until the model is meshed.
For example, Altium initially displays only bounding boxes, components
appear as the background thread loads them. Same thing could be done for
Kicad with a bit of 3D viewer cleanup.
Regards,
Tom
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