I'm just wondering if this will make typed in unit support more obvious or if it will lead to more confusion. I guess we could try it and see what happens.
On 3/14/2018 11:19 AM, Jeff Young wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > The units would still be displayed, just in the box instead of out of it. We > already do this for some grids (for instance Edit > Edit All Tracks and Vias). > > Cheers, > Jeff > > >> On 14 Mar 2018, at 13:59, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 3/13/2018 5:58 AM, Jeff Young wrote: >>> There’s a wishlish item to make support for typed-in units more >>> discoverable. >>> >>> I think the easiest way to do this is to adopt a policy of removing unit >>> static-texts following a value textCtrl in favour of displaying the current >>> units in the text. >> >> I can't imagine this not leading to a bug report. While I agree the >> units static text doesn't help to make typed-in units support more >> obvious, I don't really see how it hurts either. At least the user has >> an indication of the current units. Maybe a fancy wxRichTooltip[1] >> would be a decent solution to let users know about typed in unit support. >> >>> >>> If the user clicks into the control and types only a number, we’ll assume >>> current units and display them with the value when the textCtrl loses focus. >>> >>> We already have all the code to support this. I can clean up existing >>> dialogs when I fix them for the eradication of g_UserUnit. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp