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Subject: Re: [geda-user] editing silkscreen text?
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:12:04PM +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 14:28 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:
> > 
> > >> Type "N" with the mouse pointer hovering on it.
> > >
> > > Thanks, I would never have guessed!
> > 
> > Yes, this is one of the UI warts where pcb deviates from common practice. 
> > I wouldn't advocate a removal of the n-on-mouse-over functionality. But it 
> > would be nice to also allow an edit of selected text.
> > 
> 
> Do we like such kind of popup editing dialogs at all?
> 
> My current idea was:
> -Have a text entry field in the upper main window border
> -when user makes LMB double click over a label, that entry field becomes
> active, so text input goes into that field, while each character is
> mirrored directly in the label text. So all editing work is done by that
> entry field, but the user have not to watch that field, he can simple
> type characters, which appear directly in the label. Return key
> deactivate the text entry widget and activates the drawing area again.
> (I am not really happy with LMB double click, maybe we should allow a
> key press 't' or 'e' for starting editing, or maybe MMB press.) 
> 
> Should be easy. One problem are the attributes ,for "footprint=DIP8"
> with only "DIP8" visible as a label. Should we have name and attribute
> for editing? I have to do some thinking...

We were speaking of PCB, are you mixing up PCB and gschem ?

	Gabriel