Skip to content

When updating symbols from libraries it's not possible to reset other other field properties but leave the text itself

Description

image

In the Update Symbols from Library dialog the fields to be resetted must be chosen to reset any property of that field. The text of that field, at least ref and value, is then always reset. Therefore it's not possible to reset other properties of texts and leave the text itself intact.

Solution: add "Reset field texts" option to Options.

KiCad Version

Application: Eeschema

Version: (5.99.0-7063-gc89676e39d), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.5
	libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0

Platform: Windows 10 (build 18363), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: Nov 17 2020 22:01:37
	wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
	Boost: 1.73.0
	OCE: 6.9.1
	Curl: 7.71.0
	ngspice: 32
	Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
	KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
	KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON