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Some ideas for QoL #83

Closed immortal-sniper1 closed 7 months ago

immortal-sniper1 commented 2 years ago

So I am making a lot of labels so i searched a bit and got the idea these would be good ideas: -add a key shortcut -add the ability to save some templates -kicad often increments stuff with the key maybe we can add something like this for labels lets say it increments the numbers in the tag or with some syntax

gregdavill commented 2 years ago

Key shortcut would be good! As far as I know this is a KiCad Plugin limitation that plugins can't be bound to keyboard shortcuts yet. (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/3837)

Templates could be interesting, like having a small history list? Not sure how that look from a UI perspective. As a workaround, if you use 1.1.0 then you can edit an existing footprint, this will let you copy/paste a footprint then edit it's text. (With the label selected open the KiBuzzard window to edit)

It might be possible to detect a number at the end of a footprint and increment it if say the insert key was pressed in the KiBuzzard window. Unfortunately with a plugin it's not possible to hook into the internal KiCad handling of this.

immortal-sniper1 commented 2 years ago

ok I installed the latest from kicad not sure what version it is tho if it is 1.1.0 how can i edit them? with E like normal entities or is there another process?

gregdavill commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately no, plugins can't loop into that level of integration with KiCad.

With a footprint selected (Needs to have been created with KiBuzzard 1.1.0) Open up KiBuzzard, it should load in that footprint and on pressing OK update that selected label

gregdavill commented 2 years ago

You can see a demo video here: https://github.com/gregdavill/KiBuzzard/pull/65