Re: [Kicad-developers] Warning about potentially malicious software

2021-10-21 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 10/21/21 8:14 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 10/21/21 9:03 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 10/19/21 3:29 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: >>> we attempted to secure the rights to the original domain name from Dick >>> without success. >> >> This is untrue.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Warning about potentially malicious software

2021-10-21 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 10/19/21 3:29 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > we attempted to secure the rights to the original domain name from Dick > without success. This is untrue. *No* offer was ever made, neither to re-imburse nor any offer to purchase was ever made. "we attempted" is actually rediculous. "we" is funn

[Kicad-developers] Internet domain names

2021-10-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
The domain name kicad-pcb.org has been recently sold. The domain name kicad-pcb.com is currently for sale. Contact d...@softplc.com if interested please. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to :

[Kicad-developers] A useful CMake trick

2021-05-22 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Guys, Here is a technique that might be helpful someday. I found this article (blog post) helpful, because it advances a CMake external project build step into the configure phase up out of the baseline project build phase. It is summarized by the last paragraph in the blog post: Generalis

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad GitHub plugin opinions

2020-11-04 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Hi Seth, We still use the plugin here internally, but not with github.  It is configurable to simply use zip files as libraries, from any zip file URL. When that zip file URL is on a local server, and especially on a fast disk such as a new PCIe ssd this becomes the fastest plugin by far.  We a

Re: [Kicad-developers] What is this build error?

2020-09-04 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 9/4/20 8:38 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > Any idea, in Fossa terms, what this missing library > set is named? found it: libgtk-3-dev ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchp

[Kicad-developers] What is this build error?

2020-09-04 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
$ make -- KICAD_SCRIPTING is OFF: Disabling all python scripting support -- KiCad install dir: -- Enabling warning -Wsuggest-override -- Enabling warning -Wduplicated-branches -- Enabling warning -Wduplicated-cond -- Enabling error for -Wvla -- Enabling warning -Wimplicit-fallthrough -- Enabling e

Re: [Kicad-developers] What is a global variable, and why we don't need them.

2020-04-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 4/13/20 7:39 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > Individual > PROJECT clients view their libraries through the lens of their own > FP_LIB_TABLE. > > If at that point shared pointers were introduced, it might be too bad to get > to shared > libraries. If something is in the wa

Re: [Kicad-developers] What is a global variable, and why we don't need them.

2020-04-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 4/12/20 8:50 AM, Brian wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what’s an example use case for multiple projects open > at once, that > isn’t served by multiple instances of KiCAD?  I admit I haven’t run into many > reasons to > have more than one open at a time in my own usage other than occasionally

[Kicad-developers] What is a global variable, and why we don't need them.

2020-04-11 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
My definition: I like to abstract the definition a little more than some designers, and include things like singletons because a singleton intends to limit the number of instances to one. I would think you still have a global variable if you wrapped it into a class with a single static instanc

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Feature Idea] A disable toggle on hierarchical sheets

2020-03-24 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
In a great number of cases we all use the "Do Not Stuff" flag to differentiate builds, using the same PCB. Works well in many cases. But the conditional include for schematic hierarchical sheets is intended for the use case where things must be mutually exclusive due to size contraints. It sim

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Feature Idea] A disable toggle on hierarchical sheets

2020-03-24 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 3/21/20 10:33 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > On 2020-03-20 08:01, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I am trying to use the same hierarchical schematic and product two >> board files. So my >> plan is to have a symlink for the board file which can poi

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Feature Idea] A disable toggle on hierarchical sheets

2020-03-24 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 3/21/20 10:33 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > On 2020-03-20 08:01, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I am trying to use the same hierarchical schematic and product two >> board files. So my >> plan is to have a symlink for the board file which can poi

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Feature Idea] A disable toggle on hierarchical sheets

2020-03-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
In better English: https://gitlab.com/kicad/services/kicad-doc/-/issues/779 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help :

[Kicad-developers] [Feature Idea] A disable toggle on hierarchical sheets

2020-03-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Folks, I am trying to use the same hierarchical schematic and product two board files. So my plan is to have a symlink for the board file which can point to either of the two boards, depending on which I am currently working on. That's all fine in theory (but I'm not there yet). There are som

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad github wiki

2020-01-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 1/23/20 9:15 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > The only other page is "Modular KiCad with Alternate Top Level > Launchers". I'm not sure, but you might want to migrate this document > to gitlab. Two of the 3 launchers have been implemented. The one not implemented is a python project manager. What

Re: [Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
The other confusing aspect of this is that my old schematic did list the dependent libraries. So why the *.pro file was key to which libraries were being used is perhaps a legacy curiosity. EESchema Schematic File Version 2 LIBS:mylib LIBS:ttl_ieee LIBS:power LIBS:device LIBS:conn LIBS:linear L

Re: [Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 1/21/20 9:59 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > There should be an entry > > [eeschema/libraries] > LibNameN=mylib Wayne, You da man, still. Rene, Thanks for extending a helping hand. --- I loaded the schematic OK now. I note that an improvement is possible. After clicking "Remap

Re: [Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
of the original symbol libraries are loaded by > the old library code, the remapping works unless the original symbol > names are missing from the library. In this case, the rescue feature > should have caught that problem and created a rescue library from the > symbol library cache befo

Re: [Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Same is true if I try and load from project manager. On 1/20/20 10:24 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > I want to use standalone EESCHEMA (standalone =: run from command line not > project > manager) to load an old schematic. > > In the project *.pro file corresponding to the old

[Kicad-developers] auto conversion of sch file not working

2020-01-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
I want to use standalone EESCHEMA (standalone =: run from command line not project manager) to load an old schematic. In the project *.pro file corresponding to the old schematic I see this line: LibDir=/i/pcbs/kicad_parts;/usr/local/share/kicad/library In /i/pcbs/kicad_parts is a library that

[Kicad-developers] How to show pad in pcbnew by clicking pin in eeschema

2020-01-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Quick help, When I click on a pin in eeschema I get the disambiguating menu and then I say "pin" choice. But over in pcbnew I get all pads highlighted rather than the single pad corresponding to the pin. This behaviour ain't like it used to be. So is this broken or is there some other user a

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-10-14 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
> gitlab in a Docker container Here's an on going effort which would reduce the work: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/docker.html >some of these augmentation needs are not all foreseeable now. >> but the real question is what is the benefit? There are more than one benefit, and this

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-10-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 10/14/19 1:31 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > Is there a reason to try and host gitlab ourselves? I would look for gitlab in a Docker container, could be easy for the experienced volunteer. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers P

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

2019-10-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Wayne, Maybe this has been asked and answered, but Is there a reason to try and host gitlab ourselves? We have a few clever people available to augment the install with bells and whistles, and some of these augmentation needs are not all forseeable now. Improvements might be submitted upst

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-03 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
It takes some lead to hit a moving target. You know this if you have ever shot clay pigeons. Do we have any evidence that computers are going to have more memory in the future? If so, then this class might be useful: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/u32string/ I actually don't kn

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-03 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 5/3/19 9:41 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > There is a secondary goal of removing wxWidgets from our low level > objects. Maybe some day we can build the low level KiCad non-ui > libraries sans wxWdigets. My thinking is that wxString should only come > into play at the UI level when dealing with

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-03 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
s list is not thread-protected. >> >> Note that wxWidgets will add/remove a pointer even for something >> seemingly innocuous >> like an Empty() check.  So doing mutex locks on our side for non-const >> iterator >> access is not sufficient. >> >

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-03 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
ixed 3 or 4 of > them (by adding > our own mutex checking on any access), but are there 0 or 10 more?   > Haven’t a clue. > >>> It is between sad and breath taking. > > Indeed. > > Cheers, > Jeff. > >> On 3 May 2019, at 15:16

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-03 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
s a simple solution set, without too many ripples. But to get that lucky would require knowing what the immediate problems are in more detail. Dick On 5/3/19 8:25 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Dick, > > On 5/2/19 6:32 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 4/30/19 4:36 AM, Jeff Young

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-03 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
unk/classwx_string.html> is > unavoidable in wxWidgets program, you are encouraged to use the standard > string > classes |std::string| or |std::wstring| in your applications and convert > them to and > from wxString <https://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_string.h

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-02 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 5/2/19 5:32 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 4/30/19 4:36 AM, Jeff Young wrote: >> We had talked earlier about throwing the wxWidgets UTF8 compile switch to >> get rid of our wxString re-entrancy problems. However, I noticed that the >> 6.0 work packages doc includes an

Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 string proposal

2019-05-02 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 4/30/19 4:36 AM, Jeff Young wrote: > We had talked earlier about throwing the wxWidgets UTF8 compile switch to get > rid of our wxString re-entrancy problems. However, I noticed that the 6.0 > work packages doc includes an item for std::string-ization of the BOARD. > (While a lot more work,

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema bom plugins

2019-04-29 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Thanks Jeff and JP! I really appreciate your time, both of you had to dig into the config file. I generated a BOM! The problem with the dialog is that it uses terms without defining them. Like, in the purest sense, what is a bom plugin? We are running an external program. This is not really

[Kicad-developers] eeschema bom plugins

2019-04-28 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Folks, Today I tried to create a BOM from eeschema using a plugin command line that had been working for about 8 years. I need information on this new interface. Either it is broken or I am missing the intended set of goals and intentions. So documentation on the latter would be nice. Other

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad_pcb, kicad_mod format change for daily build?

2019-04-24 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 4/15/19 8:50 AM, jp charras wrote: > Le 15/04/2019 à 15:34, Jeff Young a écrit : >> Yes, this was intentional. It allows users to put things like spaces in >> layer names and other user-editable things. >> >> I’ll fix up the STEP exporter…. >> >>> On 15 Apr 2019, at 13:56, easyw wrote: >>> >>

[Kicad-developers] New Project Leader

2014-08-22 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Ladies and Gentlemen: With great respect and humility I am turning over KiCad project leadership to Mr. Wayne Stambaugh. Wayne has established himself as a seasoned leader and software architect. His software architectural skills and leadership skills make him in my opinion the best of avai

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad build.

2014-08-22 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
e. The recourse is for the developers to do everything by private email, and I don't think that is what is best for the project. As Cirilo accurately stated, code contributors are ownership share holders in this project. Mere lurkers and users are not, so they have no standing on this m

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad build.

2014-08-21 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/21/2014 07:57 AM, Michael Narigon wrote: > OK, thanks for your comment. Michael Actually I'm not done: Neither the KiCad project, nor SoftPLC Corporation will tolerate the removal of copyright messages unless either a) authorized by the copyright holder or b) incorrectly placed in the fi

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad build.

2014-08-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/20/2014 05:07 PM, Michael Narigon wrote: > Gents, > It probably landed in your spam filter (half the e-mails from the developers > list do to me) but I sent a message that I am pretty far along on what you > are discussing. See the tar file at https://code.launchpad.net/~mnarigon. > > I us

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad build.

2014-08-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/20/2014 11:45 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/19/2014 5:17 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 08/19/2014 03:37 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> On 8/19/2014 4:17 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>>> On 08/18/2014 06:47 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>>>>

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/20/2014 08:14 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> Sorry for asking dumb questions, but what is this whole QuasiModal stuff >> for? >> >> Tom > > Hi Tom, > > No question is dumb. > > See Yann's description (from earlier in this thread) of the problem > below, to which Quaimodal is

Re: [Kicad-developers] FreeRouting project future and kicad?

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/19/2014 04:17 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > I was trying to run the FreeRouting in KiCad and It is not working (I was > running it some 5 weeks ago..) > Then I found that sad litigation story:/ I really don't understand that > companies and what they are afraid of :| > > Are already any plans

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad build.

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/19/2014 03:37 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/19/2014 4:17 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 08/18/2014 06:47 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> On 8/18/2014 6:45 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >>>> On 16 August 2014 17:44, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>>>&

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/19/2014 03:16 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote: > 19/08/14, 21:35, Wayne Stambaugh kirjoitti: >> On 8/19/2014 1:53 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >>> If I have part 'R' in mylib, and it is also in library devices, it shows me >>> devices as my >>> top

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad build.

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/18/2014 06:47 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/18/2014 6:45 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> On 16 August 2014 17:44, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> One of the tasks that I have committed to working on in the KiCad road >>> map is to clean up the current mess we have created by allowing >>> depen

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
If it weren't for the part picker issue, which I rate as my personal most annoying issue in rev 5083, I would say that 5083 is the best version of KiCad that I have ever seen or used. I uncorked the stop in kicad-install.sh, so that anyone who now builds using that script is now back on the lea

Re: [Kicad-developers] old pcbnew file format in bitmap2component tool

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/19/2014 05:00 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > While working on the bitmap2component tool to add support for > placing bitmaps onto the planned Underlay 1/2 layers I noticed > that the deprecated *.emp export format is still supported by > the tool. If there are no objections I'll remove that opt

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/19/2014 01:35 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/19/2014 1:53 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 08/19/2014 07:33 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> On 8/18/2014 5:46 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>>> >>>>>> I will do the "workaround" reorderi

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-19 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/19/2014 07:33 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/18/2014 5:46 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> >>>> I will do the "workaround" reordering of my libraries.. not a problem for >>>> me now that I know how it works.. >>> >>> >>

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
>> I will do the "workaround" reordering of my libraries.. not a problem for me >> now that I know how it works.. > > > I think the sort() call has to go, so I now think you discovered something. > > Should have a fix in minutes. > > When the foundations get simpler, so do the algorithms. >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/18/2014 04:26 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > Hi Dick, > > Thanks for your explanations. > This is fun, considering the years I am using kicad and only now find this > situation :) > > I was right now checking the project files looking for the libraries and I > have this scenario: > > main_pr

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/18/2014 04:03 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 08/18/2014 03:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 8/18/2014 4:30 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: >>> I found that if I have multiple libraries with same component names >>> (notable ex: R, C, INDUCTOR .. ) I cannot sel

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/18/2014 03:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/18/2014 4:30 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: >> I found that if I have multiple libraries with same component names (notable >> ex: R, C, INDUCTOR .. ) I cannot select another component other than the one >> already cached (?). I mean, if I select a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
The order of parts search is given by the order of library names in the *.pro file. Here in my project, you see the first two are mine, followed by the standard ones. One is project specific and the other is cross project: If you change this order, by dialog or text editor, you will get differen

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema issue: cannot load component from multi libraries with same component name

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/18/2014 03:30 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > I found that if I have multiple libraries with same component names (notable > ex: R, C, INDUCTOR .. ) I cannot select another component other than the one > already cached (?). I mean, if I select a R from another library it will load > the same R

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/18/2014 05:37 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > Hello Dick > > I see a bug in your commit 5072 (also present in latest commit 5079). > In that commit; when opening a schematic, then all connections are > showed as not connected (with the square green box around the end > nodes). When drawing a ne

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-18 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
>> > Good news ! > > thanks Dick ! > > but where is that 5089 version ? I just ran the install script and it > updated to 5081. May be it was 5079 ? Yes. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-17 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
>> Patch solved the issue, seemed to work like a charm... But induced another >> issue. Step to >> reproduce : >> >> 1 - open kicad, then open eeschema and pcbnew >> 2 - in pcbnew, open the module properties dialog on any part you want. >> 3 - go back to eeschema, wich is now responding normally,

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad build.

2014-08-16 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/16/2014 11:44 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > One of the tasks that I have committed to working on in the KiCad road > map is to clean up the current mess we have created by allowing > dependency libraries to be built as part of the KiCad source build. The > only exception I see for the time be

Re: [Kicad-developers] Segfault when running DRC

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
'm not yet sure if this has any relationship whatsoever to the crash >> I'm hunting. >> >> On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 23:31 -0400, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: >>> I'm not using codelight itself, just their precompiled wx binaries, so I >>> can easily remove

Re: [Kicad-developers] Segfault when running DRC

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/15/2014 08:32 PM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: > Does not crash when run under Valgrind, instead gives this error: > > ==32723== Invalid read of size 8 ^ this error? I've seen that before and never could figure it out, nor was it ever the cause of any problem running valgrind. I would say bui

Re: [Kicad-developers] Bug 593782 fixed already, but other problem noticed

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/15/2014 03:18 PM, Derek Kozel wrote: > 'eeschema' allows instances with the same name > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/593782 > > I've just checked this bug and the faulty behaviour has already been fixed in > the > current revision. However there is still an incorrect behaviour whe

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/15/2014 02:05 PM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: > As a user of wx 2.8 on Debian I would like to ensure that, as a minimum, > kicad continues to build on it until the next stable Debian version > (presumably shipping wx 3.0) is released. You have that capability. Probably I will uninstall wx2.8 to

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/15/2014 02:16 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/15/2014 3:00 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 08/15/2014 10:00 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> On 8/15/2014 8:47 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>>> On 08/14/2014 07:31 PM, yann jautard wrote: >>>>> >&

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/15/2014 10:26 AM, Барановский Константин wrote: > I'm catched the bug where the window of the eeschema freezes. > > To reproduce do the next: > 1) start kicad and opens some project (with existing schematic); > 2) from kicad's panel start eeschema; > 3) for some component in context menu (ri

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/15/2014 10:00 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/15/2014 8:47 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 08/14/2014 07:31 PM, yann jautard wrote: >>> >>> Le 14/08/2014 16:21, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit : >>>>> I don't know if it is technically possible to cha

[Kicad-developers] wxwidgets 3.0 hits the Ubuntu repos

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libwxgtk3.0-0 for Trusty only. With "dev" packages too. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-develope

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/14/2014 07:31 PM, yann jautard wrote: > > Le 14/08/2014 16:21, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit : >>> I don't know if it is technically possible to change this behaviour, but >>> I think it could be a great improvement. >>> >> : >>> yann &g

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-14 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/13/2014 06:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/13/2014 6:23 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> On 08/13/2014 03:43 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> On 8/13/2014 4:37 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>>> >>>> Many changes were introduced in revision 5072. &g

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-14 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
> I don't know if it is technically possible to change this behaviour, but > I think it could be a great improvement. > : > yann > Hopefully QuasiModal is not a monster. For significant dialogs (ones which tend to be open for a while) using the QuasiModal support in DIALOG_SHIM might be a sol

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/13/2014 03:43 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/13/2014 4:37 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> >> Many changes were introduced in revision 5072. >> >> If you are happy with your current binaries, stay where you are until the >> pond settles. >> >> If

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Many changes were introduced in revision 5072. If you are happy with your current binaries, stay where you are until the pond settles. If you want to see if your known bugs are fixed, then take a look at it and that testing will be appreciated. Thanks, Dick __

Re: [Kicad-developers] CvPcb legacy configuration dialog.

2014-08-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/13/2014 10:34 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I just fixed the broken configuration toolbar button in CvPcb to launch > the footprint library table editor. I happened to notice that the > legacy configuration dialog files are still in the dialog folder. I > think it's safe to remove them since

Re: [Kicad-developers] X2y Caps

2014-08-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/13/2014 10:31 AM, Jean-Paul Louis wrote: > Hi Dick, > Those app notes are interesting, but Johanson is known for high performance > aka very expensive devices. > Is your design so critical that you have to worry about less than 0.5nH > inductance? > Is it ultra high frequency? or very fast

Re: [Kicad-developers] X2y Caps

2014-08-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/13/2014 10:07 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/11/2014 10:24 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> We got any of these in our part or footprint libraries? >> >> http://www.johansondielectrics.com/technical-notes/x2y-application-notes/x2y-power-bypass-pcb-mounting.html#.U-l

Re: [Kicad-developers] wxString conversion issues in pcbnew/netlist.cpp [PATCH]

2014-08-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
/** * Function GetChars * returns a wxChar* to the actual wxChar* data within a wxString, and is * helpful for passing strings to wxString::Printf() and wxString::Format(). * It can also be passed a UTF8 parameter which will be converted to wxString * by the compiler. * * Example: wxString

Re: [Kicad-developers] wxString conversion issues in pcbnew/netlist.cpp [PATCH]

2014-08-13 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/13/2014 07:34 AM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: > wxString( fpOnBoard->GetFPID().GetFootprintName() ).GetData(), I thought we could pass a UTF8 to GetChars() ? GetChars( fpOnBoard->GetFPID().GetFootprintName() ) Seems simpler to read, the type promotion to wxString is then magical. ___

Re: [Kicad-developers] Fix for uninitialized variables and unchecked input buffers in eeschema [PATCH]

2014-08-12 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
committed in rev. 5065. Thanks. ___ 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

[Kicad-developers] X2y Caps

2014-08-11 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
We got any of these in our part or footprint libraries? http://www.johansondielectrics.com/technical-notes/x2y-application-notes/x2y-power-bypass-pcb-mounting.html#.U-l5WtZGlO4 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kic

Re: [Kicad-developers] Status of my merge request (parallelization of 3D model normal calculation using OpenMP)

2014-08-11 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/11/2014 07:51 PM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I submitted a merge request a week or two ago via Launchpad: > https://code.launchpad.net/~azonenberg/kicad/advanced-feature-bugfixes/+merge/229341 > > Orson and Wayne both commented on it with some minor concerns related to > #ifdefs

[Kicad-developers] doc repo is damaged

2014-08-11 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
This is why we can't have nice things. Doing a checkout on the "docs" repo gives: dick@dick-intel:/svn/kicad/product$ cd /tmp dick@dick-intel:/tmp$ bzr co https://code.launchpad.net/~kicad-developers/kicad/doc bzr: ERROR: No such file: 'http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-developers/kicad/d

Re: [Kicad-developers] Contributing footprints

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/04/2014 11:15 AM, Simon Gansen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to KiCad developement and wondering what is the designated way > to contribute package footprints. > > Once I've created a pull request at github for a schematic symbol to > github.com/KiCad/kicad-library, which was merged a few hour l

[Kicad-developers] eeschema modular kicad work

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/29/2014 02:02 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 7/27/2014 1:33 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> Gentlemen: >> >> In the course of trying to load the schematic editor directly under >> kicad.exe, by-passing >> eeschema top frame itself, I was exposed to a ran

[Kicad-developers] compiler warning

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Can someone please fix this: /svn/kicad/product/common/common.cpp:48:13: warning: #warning "You must use '--with-gnomeprint' or '--with-gtkprint' in your wx library configuration for full print capabilities." [-Wcpp] # warning "You must use '--with-gnomeprint' or '--with-gtkprint' i

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D modules path strange behaviour

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Wayne, In our 3/20/2014 "project planning" conversation I mentioned: newstring = Prj().Substitute( oldstring ); and 6 or so other suggestions for your project planning document. Just curious, where is that document, and did these get recorded? Dick BTW, the PROJECT::Substitute() func

Re: [Kicad-developers] CERN Version 5068 - Cannot load PCB in pcbnew

2014-08-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
This is expected from time to time when loading a board saved with a newer version into older software. The newer software will load it fine. If you want the older software to load it, then don't save using the newer software. ___ Mailing list: http

Re: [Kicad-developers] Patches to correct some warnings

2014-07-30 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
>> >> No, I passed through that path and rejected it. Tell the compiler to shut >> up. >> >> > > Did you happen to check the logic on a C++11 compiler? There is an ifdef on > lines 58-60 of the file include/layers_id_colors_and_visibility.h that sets > the type of the enum to unsigned char on

Re: [Kicad-developers] Patches to correct some warnings

2014-07-30 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/30/2014 02:51 PM, Michael Narigon wrote: > All, Here are four patches to correct some warnings I am seeing while > compiling with > the OS X compiler in C++11 mode. I think they have general applicability for > all > targets. I checked that the patches will apply against 5037 and that the 5

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: opening *.pro in current directory gives error message

2014-07-28 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
> It happened to me when I open kicad on the commandline with a *.pro file in > the same > directory (essentially what jp said) I missed that since I haven't used kicad.exe that way. The next step on this topic is to remove all the wxSetWorkingDirectory() calls and make the software work wit

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: opening *.pro in current directory gives error message

2014-07-28 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/28/2014 08:58 AM, jp charras wrote: > Le 28/07/2014 15:20, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit : >> Thanks Henner: >> >> I'll look at this now. The surprise is the inconsistency of the file >> dialog, which >> normally returns a full path, but here not. An assert

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: opening *.pro in current directory gives error message

2014-07-28 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Thanks Henner: I'll look at this now. The surprise is the inconsistency of the file dialog, which normally returns a full path, but here not. An assert would have caught that assumption, my mistake. In the multiple open projects scenario, changing the directory (CWD) will go away. So I won'

Re: [Kicad-developers] can't find kicad.pro

2014-07-27 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
I'm pretty sure versions newer than 2014-05-31 would tell you where it was looking for the template file, with a popup window. I've worked the last two days on project related improvements and should have those committed within a couple of days. I suggest upgrading in about a week. Until then

Re: [Kicad-developers] issue with sscanf %lf vs %f

2014-07-26 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/26/2014 03:36 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: >> Line 50 of 3d-viewer/3d_struct.h shows that the recipient data item is >> double. >> Could it be somebody changed line 50 from: double x, y, z; > > yes, myself :S sorry, I've now fixed it myself. > > I changed S3D_VERTEX to glm::vec3 so I can use

Re: [Kicad-developers] issue with sscanf %lf vs %f

2014-07-26 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/26/2014 02:53 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > Hi all, > > I notice that in my system, I have problems parsing data with actual %lf > notation that kicad is using. > I got warnings about it when it is building, complaining that it is expecting > a double but it is parsing to float. Line 50 of

Re: [Kicad-developers] Speed up building?

2014-07-25 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/25/2014 03:59 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > Hello, > Is is possible speed up building (in linux) some how? (without to buy a > faster computer) > It looks it is not building using multiprocessor. > > Also, every small change, it will took a lot of time by the linker to do its > business. > I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Display issue with blind/buried vias

2014-07-23 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/22/2014 06:43 PM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: > Proposed fix attached. > > With this patch, vias are displayed if > a) via display is turned on, and > b) at least one of the layers the via crosses is displayed. Hi Andrew, Thanks for the idea and the patch. The patch has tabs in it and trailin

Re: [Kicad-developers] Segfault in BOARD::ReplaceNetlist()

2014-07-21 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/21/2014 10:32 AM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: > I can't share the board unfortunately since it's a project for work. I > do have a core dump that I can poke around in and give you info for, as > well as see if I can reproduce it on some of the open-source designs I'm > working on. That would not

Re: [Kicad-developers] Segfault in BOARD::ReplaceNetlist()

2014-07-21 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
I could not duplicate this with the one and only board I tried it with. You may have to zip up the board and netlist file, at least. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe

Re: [Kicad-developers] bugs on mac install of kicad / libraries

2014-07-21 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 07/21/2014 12:13 AM, Jake wrote: > i downloaded a zip of a build for macOS containing KiCad 2014-05-31 BZR > 4902-product (called "Kicad-product-2014-05-31.zip") > > I can't remember where I downloaded it though, and the official kicad page > at http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Download

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