Component chooser HTML panel should ellipsize URL

[Chris Pavlina]

Many datasheet URLs are extremely long. It makes the HTML panel look really silly when everything fits in the panel except a datasheet link making it scroll to infinity and beyond... ellipsize that, it's clickable.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Seems to have gotten worse: I don't have any datasheet values filled in at all.

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Jeff, what do you mean? You never see any datasheet values even if you specify them for a symbol? I think that KiCad libraries mostly do not contain datasheet URLs, so it is an information you need to add yourself.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

I'll admit I'm still on the old libraries, but if you go to something like Valves/ECC81 in libedit you'll see that it has a datasheet URL (http://www.r-type.org/pdfs/ecc81.pdf).

However, if you do a Place Symbol and select Valves/ECC81 in the symbol chooser, the Datasheet line in the HTML panel is blank.

It's no doubt something simple; I'll have a look once I finish up making the Pin Table dialog editable (on my 6.0 branch).

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Oh wait, I see Chris has already assigned himself.

@Chris, feel free to assign this to me. Otherwise I'll defer to you....

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Jeff, you are right - I was checking a wrong place.

[Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris)]

Jeff, you can take this if you want. Assign it to yourself if you start working on it. I do intend to get this but it could be a while.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

(Changing from wishlist to bug because of the not-displaying-at-all issue.)

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision e7d98f89a1210c5d80b631e2ce269d597c345c66
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=e7d98f89a1210c5d80b631e2ce269d597c345c66

[Maciej Suminski (orsonmmz)]

Well done Jeff, I have committed your patch. Thank you!