The Libedit component tree currently shows modified symbols in bold, and the symbol-on-edit-canvas in the highlight colour. Unfortunately, this has a couple of issues:
1) The standard way to show modified is with an asterisk 2) The highlight colour on OSX (and perhaps other platforms) isn’t meant to be used as a foreground colour, and is nearly invisible when used for text I tried to change the symbol-on-edit-canvas flag to the standard inactive list highlight, but wxWidgets conspires against us and doesn’t allow that when the list is active. I also tried using a pointing finger icon, bit it wastes a lot of screen real-estate as the list allocates room for the icon in all items. And I tried appending the text with “ —>”, which works quite well but looks like something from the 1980’s. So I went with the Eclipse, JetBrains, QT Creator paradigm of not showing the symbol-on-edit-canvas when you’re working in the tree window, but then updating the tree window selection to the symbol-on-edit-canvas whenever you do anything in the edit canvas. This works quite well. The patch also adds an asterisk to modified items. It’s been languishing a bit in the patches-available list, so I thought I’d give it a bit more explanation. Cheers, Jeff. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
