Forgot the bug link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1741719 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1741719>
(patch can also be found there). Cheers, Jeff. > On 18 Jan 2018, at 10:37, Jeff Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
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