Add filtering to Footprint library browser

Bug #1465295 reported by JsquaredZ
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This bug affects 14 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Committed
Wishlist
Jeff Young

Bug Description

In build 5747 CvPCB is deprecated and footprints are now assigned in eeSchema. Footprint selections/changes are made using the Footprint library browser.

This library browser is missing the following useful filters from Cvpcb:
Filter by Keyword
Filter by pincount
Filter by library ( not really needed I think since the library browser filters the library results into the next pane over.

Tags: pcbnew
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Nick Østergaard (nickoe) wrote :

I think it would be better and more awesome if the library search dialog that is used for symbols would also work on footprints. This would partly solve this.

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jean-pierre charras (jp-charras) wrote :

CvPCB is *not* deprecated.
It works differently.

xzcvczx (xzcvczx)
Changed in kicad:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Seth Hillbrand (sethh)
Changed in kicad:
assignee: nobody → Seth Hillbrand (sethh)
milestone: none → 5.1.0
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Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote :

Version 5.1 is in feature freeze. Moving to 6.0.0 milestone.

Changed in kicad:
milestone: 5.1.0 → 6.0.0-rc1
summary: - Add filters ala CvPCB to Footprint library browser
+ Add filtering to Footprint library browser
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Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote :

Note: filter terms are space-delimited. Terms are AND'ed. A term which is a number is matched against the pad count.

Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
assignee: Seth Hillbrand (sethh) → Jeff Young (jeyjey)
status: New → In Progress
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KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote :

Fixed in revision a0eaff289a9283b04a1606db52bfb41bbc5628eb
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=a0eaff289a9283b04a1606db52bfb41bbc5628eb

Changed in kicad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: pcbnew
removed: browser library
tags: removed: eeschema
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Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr) wrote :

Just a point here, I am testing the search functionalities now. So, opinion: I was hopping just one single search text box in the "Footprint Library Browser" (lp:1783753) that look for the text into all the libraries loaded.
And, after I type some word restrictive enough to get just ONE result, that this get selected and just hitting <Enter> I could select it. This will minimize the necessity of mouse movements by the user.

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Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote :

@Hildo, there's no way to do a single text box because we can't display results from multiple libraries in the second list.

I'll look into selecting a single hit....

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Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote :

I've added up/down arrow support, <return> and <tab> support to the filter controls.

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Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr) wrote :

Nice, @jeff. This improved the UX of the dialog.

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