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Subject: 
Re: Annoucement and Questions
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Date: 
Mon, 1 May 2000 15:35:05 GMT
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Michael Lachmann wrote:
> I've closed implementation phase for V1.9 of MLCad now, in arround a week I
> hope that I'm ready to release it.

cool!

<snip>

> 1) I'm planning to improve the way of finding parts, the version 1.9 will have
> a better preview which shows more parts at once, but it's still hard to find
> parts.
> Also searching for a word in the description does not help until you now at
> least parts of it.
> QUESTION: Please send me ideas how I could improve the previews or part lists
> so that it is more easy to find parts. Imagine you don't know the library but
> you know how the part looks like. What could be done to find it more easy?

Something I am trying to do, to help in inventorying is adding some meta information to the parts DB - like type (which we already have), and some size info (fits in 4x4, 1x8, etc) - that way, if you know how big it is, you can search through a lot less parts...

:)

Dan



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