Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20060414 snapshot

[joel silvestre <j.silvestre@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much!

joel


Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 18:09 -0500, Bill WIlson a écrit :
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:51:05 +0200
> joel silvestre <j.silvestre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Selecting "Set as default" in the Route Style popup makes PCB issue a:
> >  WARNING:  build_route_string() not fixed yet
> > 
> > Setting an other size as default makes PCB issue the same warning and
> > then segfault.
> 
> Apply this patch and you'll be ahead of CVS!  (Sourceforge seems to be
> having another headache right now).
> 
> I am noticing a usage problem though.  If you "Set as default" for a route
> style, PCB board size, or layer groups, you will only get those defaults
> if you open up a blank board, that is no command line .pcb arg.  But if
> you open up a new .pcb created by running gsch2pcb, you would expect
> to get your defaults and instead you get the size, routes, and layer defaults
> that gsch2pcb inserted as a template.
> 
> So I have 2 suggestions:
> 
> 1) gsch2pcb needs to be modified to not put a "Groups" and "Styles" line
> in its output so that the PCB program defaults (your "Set as default" preferences
> in the Gtk PCB) can take effect.  And gsch2pcb should omit putting  width and
> height in the PCB() line, but this would also require a change to the PCB program that
> it use default width and height in this case.  This wouldn't be backwards compatible
> since for some reason PCB will now set the board size to some huge values instead
> of the default values.
> 
> 2) The for now workaround, if this matters to you, is after a first gsch2pcb run,
> then start pcb with no args and load the initial gsch2pcb  .pcb file
> with "File->Load layout data to paste buffer".  You should then get your defaults
> recognized and after that, resume normal gsch2pcb -> pcb usage.
> 
> Bill