I had a senior moment. You are correct. This should have been for your footprint exchange dialog patch. Sorry for the noise. I will reply to the correct email momentarily.
On 6/19/2015 5:43 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > Am I just missing something, or did you reply to the wrong mail? ;) > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 05:37:16PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> Chris, >> >> I'm not opposed to this patch. I actually prefer the footprint viewer >> over the footprint search dialog for two reasons. One, the footprint >> viewer uses lazy loading (it doesn't actually read the footprint files >> until you select a library) so there is no lag showing the viewer due to >> loading all of the footprints in every library as is the case with the >> search dialog. Two, you can actually view the footprint to make sure >> that is really what you want. That being said, I'm sure not everyone >> shares my enthusiasm for the footprint viewer so a better solution may >> be to add a separate button to launch the footprint viewer and leave the >> footprint search dialog in place for users who prefer using that >> instead. I promise you if we remove the footprint search dialog, >> someone will file a bug report about it shortly there after. :) >> >> Wayne >> >> >> On 6/18/2015 3:07 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> It's come to my attention that we have another old project compatibility >>> issue: >>> >>> https://forum.kicad.info/t/exisiting-schematic-component-not-being-found-in-library-error/976 >>> >>> The behavior when loading a very old project with case-insensitive part >>> names isn't nice at all, there's no easy way to change them over. It >>> gives suggestions for new part names, but you still have to change them >>> one by one. >>> >>> I adapted lib-cache-rescue into a more generic project-rescue, which can >>> handle multiple types of rescue cases, and added one for missing symbols >>> with differently cased versions available. >>> >>> It looks roughly like this now (though I've changed the descriptive text >>> at the top since taking that screenshot): >>> >>> http://misc.c4757p.com/newrescue.png >>> >>> Please, as many people as possible, try this out. >>> >>> -- >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
