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Subject: 
Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:44:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> Part names have a maximum length of 64 characters.  Some rare parts run up
> against this limit.

It's not all that rare, and becoming less rare all the time...

> Consequently, I don't think adding "Official" to official
> part names is a viable solution.  (To be honest, it would also by really
> annoying to see that on the end of all official part names.)  The length
> restriction could probably be safely ignored with unofficial parts.  Although
> I'm not sure this is a good solution to the problem, I can't think of something
> better off-hand.

The UI could display a small "unofficial" icon beside unofficial parts in what
part tree/list/pallette is offered by the software.

Steve



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  Re: Using Unofficial parts in seperate folder
 
(...) Part names have a maximum length of 64 characters. Some rare parts run up against this limit. Consequently, I don't think adding "Official" to official part names is a viable solution. (To be honest, it would also by really annoying to see (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)

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