libedit "Field Properties" way too wide with long field text

[Chris Pavlina]

If I am editing a component with a very long field (datasheet URL for instance can be insane), the Field Properties dialog is extremely wide (doesn't fit on screen). Worse, when I try to resize it to fit properly on my screen, I get something like this: https://misc.c4757p.com/this-is-not-what-I-had-in-mind.png

I suggest making the table of fields horizontally scrollable, putting it inside a wxSplitterWindow, and giving it a maximum width.

Application: kicad
Version: (2017-03-24 revision 4011ed4e3)-master, debug build
Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
           libcurl/7.53.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2k zlib/1.2.11 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libicu/58.2) libssh2/1.8.0
Platform: Linux 4.10.5-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
- Build Info -
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.63.0
Curl: 7.53.1
KiCad - Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 with C++ ABI 1010
        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=OFF
                  BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
                  KICAD_USE_OCE=ON

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

I do not see the issue anymore, can you confirm it is fixed?

[Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris)]

Definitely not fixed.

Application: kicad
Version: (2017-12-16 revision 845ca5f64)-master, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.3
    libcurl/7.57.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.28.0
Platform: Linux 4.14.8-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.65.1
    Curl: 7.57.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 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=OFF
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

The default presentation is also poor as it shows 3 columns (when there are really only 2), which can be confusing.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Ultra-long URI's are neither typed (they're browsed to and then copied/pasted) nor read (they're clicked on). Therefore we don't really need to scale this column up to show all of them anyway.

The direct-edit version of this dialog will address this.