Oliver, Is there any possibility that this will break existing schematic netlists? I'm assuming this patch only prevents the user from generating new invisible/no-connect connections.
Is anyone else opposed to this? Cheers, Wayne On 3/7/2017 7:33 AM, Oliver Walters wrote: > Is there any objection to applying this patch in its current form? Note > that all it prevents is users accidentally joining pins that are already > invisible AND non-connect. > > Cheers, > Oliver > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Oliver Walters > <oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com <mailto:oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > Urgh, patch attached here. > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Oliver Walters > <oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com > <mailto:oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I have amended the patch to only ignore connection of pins that > are both INVISIBLE and NC (Electrical Type = Not Connected). > This will improve the safety of the current libraries which do > contain many parts with NC pins set as invisible. > > It will also NOT change the behaviour of people using invisible > pins for one-to-many connection. > > Thoughts? > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Oliver Walters > <oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com > <mailto:oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The attached patch prevents invisible pins from being > connected using the wire tool in eeschema. > > a) If you connect a wire endpoint to the same position as a > pin endpoint, they are NOT connected visually > b) Wires and insivible pins are also ignored during netlist > creation > c) This does not affect the ability of invisible power-pins > to automatically connect to global power labels > > Is the current behavior of connecting invisible pins to wire > endpoints desired? Or is it just an aberration? > > If there is a very good reason that pins not visible in the > schematic are able to be connected silently? > > before: http://i.imgur.com/3gModvW.png > <http://i.imgur.com/3gModvW.png> > > after: http://i.imgur.com/r8O7c3Y.png > <http://i.imgur.com/r8O7c3Y.png> > > (Note the 'dangling' wire-end indication) > > Cheers, > Oliver > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
