I am pretty close to completing the Eeschema replace code but I ran into an issue with the undo/redo behavior that I know will confuse users. The problem lies in that the screen associated with each sheet keeps it's own undo/redo list. This means that you must open the sheet that you want to perform the undo/redo for that sheet. My issue is that I designed the find and replace code to allow for descending the entire schematic hierarchy when performing find and replace. I know this will cause confusion because users will expect to be able to undo all of the replace actions from the current sheet which what I would expect to happen. Changing the undo/redo feature to support the whole schematic hierarchy will be a non-trivial task and possibly result in user backlash do to the change in bahavior. So I am left with the following options on the replace feature:
1) Leave it as is and live with the user complaints about having to open each sheet to undo the replace changes. 2) Shelve it until the undo/redo feature can be changed and live with the user confusion caused by the change in the undo/redo behavior. 3) Leave the undo/redo behavior as is and limit the replace feature to the current sheet and live with the complaints as why the user cannot replace the entire hierarchy when you can search the entire hierarchy. I'm leaning toward option 2 but that may push the replace feature out quite ways. The replace feature is pretty useful as it is right now so some folks may be willing to live with the undo/redo issue. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance. Wayne _______________________________________________ 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
