eeschema: part property dialog, honor field attributes at update

Bug #1737470 reported by Nicholas Savenlid
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KiCad
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Bug Description

when clicking "update field values"

please honor field attributes

show, align, size, style etc

Libraries mature and evolve.

It would help immensely if the many hours of work spent on libraries easily could be moved into existing designs.

thanks

Application: kicad
Version: (2017-11-24 revision a01d81e4b)-makepkg, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.3
    libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.60.0
    Curl: 7.54.1
    Compiler: GCC 7.1.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

Revision history for this message
Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote :

Do we have a flag that tells us whether the field was auto-placed (and cleared when manually moved)? (I had a quick look at the code and couldn't find anything.)

Anyway, if we did it would be easy enough to at least update those that fields that were autoplayed, and perhaps even have a "remove manual overrides" button (or something to that effect).

Changed in kicad:
status: New → Confirmed
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