Commit b589bca9 authored by dickelbeck's avatar dickelbeck
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todo.txt update

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*** Add tooltip text to all non-obvious controls in every dialog window.
*** Add tooltip text to all non-obvious controls in every dialog window.
Need to do this using DialogBlocks.
Need to do this using DialogBlocks.


2007-Nov-4 Assigned To: dick, but probably not til January.
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Enhance DRC dialog box to:
1) retain lines of error text, so as user re-enters dialog, the previously found errors persist.
2) support double or single clicking a text line, and have the pcbnew cursor go to the offending marker.
3) use color in the text line display.
4) use tooltip on a per line basis, which would show a generic, but error type specific
message about the error for that line.
5) Use sizers properly so that as the dialog box is resized, the text area gets 
all the additional space, both horizontally and vertically.
6) The initial size of the dialog needs to be big enough to show the text lines
 in a clear way.
7) Add a delete button so user can remove a single line of text after he fixes that track.  The delete button
should also delete that single marker.
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Implementation Ideas:  retain all drc wxStrings in a vector<wxString> so they
can be re-displayed again on another popup of the dialog.  Switch from wxTextControl 
to wxHtmlListBox for the errors.  Add parsing and formatting functions to allow
grabbing of the coordinate of the marker out of text, and to parse a generic
error message such that it can be embellished into html for use in the html 
line, such that we can get color.  There may be a requirement to rework the
generation of the drc error strings to facillitate easy parsing.  Although
maybe we use structures instead of strings for error reporting so the parsing
does not need to happen.