Re: [Kicad-developers] A few run-time problems on kicad-git build on Slackware64-current Linux

2020-11-08 Thread Tom Crane
x27;t be in KiCad. It's the behavior of your window manager. Apparently some Linux WMs send mouse events to windows and controls without focus and others don't. KiCad traditionally assumed it wouldn't receive mouse events without being activated. On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:33

Re: [Kicad-developers] A few run-time problems on kicad-git build on Slackware64-current Linux

2020-11-06 Thread Tom Crane
Thanks for the explanation. I noticed these problems on moving from gtk2 to gtk3 builds. Is this where these changes were made? Are there likely to be any user selectable runtime options added to Kicad to ameliorate these problems? Tom Crane. On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Mark Roszko wrote: Your

Re: [Kicad-developers] A few run-time problems on kicad-git build on Slackware64-current Linux

2020-11-05 Thread Tom Crane
PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/ In both cases the scripting console error remains the same. Thanks Tom. On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 20:51, Tom Crane wrote: Thanks for the quick response.  In the past I have been bitten by old libraries in non-standard places derailing

Re: [Kicad-developers] A few run-time problems on kicad-git build on Slackware64-current Linux

2020-11-05 Thread Tom Crane
ooks and echo LD_LIBRARY_PATH from your runtime env. Nicl tor. 5. nov. 2020 16.26 skrev Tom Crane : I have been using recent builds for the past few weeks.  They are usable but I have a couple of outstanding problems which I'm not sure how to diagnose/fix. (1) I

[Kicad-developers] A few run-time problems on kicad-git build on Slackware64-current Linux

2020-11-05 Thread Tom Crane
rtially initialized module 'wx' has no attribute '__version__' (most likely due to a circular import) I built kicad with Python3 support (see below) so it should be using that and not Python2 (for which I don't have a wxWidgets build) but I suspect it might still be call

Re: [Kicad-developers] Attempting to build kicad-git source on Slackware-current Linux

2020-10-12 Thread Tom Crane
d the needed changes in our code to work around it yet. For now, you need to add the --disable-glcanvasegl option to the wxWidgets configure line. -Ian On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 3:20 AM Tom Crane wrote: Thanks for the clarification -- and to all who follow-ed up.  That was the inform

Re: [Kicad-developers] Attempting to build kicad-git source on Slackware-current Linux

2020-10-11 Thread Tom Crane
E=Debug' so can investigate with gdb if needed. Could you give me any tips on what might be wrong and where to look? Thanks again Tom Crane On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, Ian McInerney wrote: The build has failed because it appears that your version of wxPython/Phoenix is using wxWidgets 3.1.5 and

Re: [Kicad-developers] Attempting to build kicad-git source on Slackware-current Linux

2020-10-08 Thread Tom Crane
lds) I use wxGTK3-3.0.5, I don't use the python stuff. Tom Crane wrote: I am having no success despite having been able to do this in the past. Previously I was able to build for gtk2+ with Python2. Now trying this fails at runtime with eg. "(eeschema:6730): Gtk-ER

[Kicad-developers] Attempting to build kicad-git source on Slackware-current Linux

2020-10-08 Thread Tom Crane
n sheets in eeschema and is barely usable which is why I need to rebuild. I am stuck. Please help! Thanks Tom Crane. -- Tom Crane, Digital Electronics Engineer, Dept. Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England. Email: t.cr...@rhul.ac.uk ___

Re: [Kicad-developers] Copy&pasting in eeschema

2019-06-06 Thread Tom Crane
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Seth Hillbrand wrote: On 2019-06-05 13:31, Tom Crane wrote: I have had problems copying and pasting certain individual components, using the right-click method for both. The symptom was no-effect when right-click pasting despite the paste menu item not being greyed out

[Kicad-developers] Copy&pasting in eeschema

2019-06-05 Thread Tom Crane
y&pasting in the past. Could I make a feature-request for a diagnostic printed message/GUI pop-up to be produced when the copy to the clipboard or the paste from it fails, rather than just silently failing which is frustrating and not helpful for problem diagnosis? Thanks Tom Crane Kicad de