Hi Johannes, The the new file format work is in progress and should be done in a few months. The UI support for moving pin name and number text will happen some time after that. I cannot say when for sure as the new file formats add a lot of new features which will require a significant amount of UI work so it could be while.
Cheers, Wayne On 8/12/19 11:26 PM, Johannes Sprigode wrote: > Howdy Wayne, > > no worries. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not surprised at all since this > only makes sense to have. > > In the meantime I'll keep it up if viable as a local patch just for > fun-kickers. > > Is that feature already progressing? If so, which tag? > > Cheers > > Johannes > > On 13/08/19 7:27 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> Johannes, >> >> Once the new schematic and symbol library file formats are complete, you >> will be able orient pin number and name positions freely. This is >> planned for version 6 which is currently under development so no changes >> will be made to the existing file format to support this. Thank you for >> offering to help but this already is planned. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> On 7/15/19 7:18 AM, Johannes Sprigode wrote: >>> Hello there, >>> >>> been using Kicad for a while and have not looked back at eagle except >>> for project imports. >>> >>> However, I found all those vertical texts in eeschema quite disruptive. >>> So I've done something like in attached screen shot over the last couple >>> of days working off of master under Linux. >>> >>> Would you guys be interest to implement this sort of feature? If so, I >>> would follow through with the nitty gritties since the actual >>> implications are ‘slightly’ more complex then just that. >>> >>> Who would be the best contact to discuss this? >>> >>> I’m quite happy to lay out an implementation scenario. >>> >>> As it stands this ‘add-in’ will not impact on already existing >>> libraries. Going by what is in master there is no such feature except >>> some decent groundwork to build upon. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Johannes >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
