Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On 08/22/2011 07:45 AM, Kovacs Levente wrote:
>>>    I open up a new schematic, place two instances of 7404-1, edit the
>>> attributes of the second one, promote the "slot" attribute, edit the
>>> newly-accessible one, change it to "2", save it, save the sheet, exit
>>> gschem, restart, and load the sheet.
>> 
>> I am guessing that you edit the symbol too. You don't have to.  You just have
>> to save the sheet, not the symbol.
> 
>  Oh nono, I didn't do that...I was tired when I typed that.  Where I said "save it, save the sheet" I just meant "save the sheet".  I do not edit the symbols alone, other than double-clicking on them and promoting/modifying the slot attribute.
> 
>> You should promote the slot attribute for both instances.
> 
>  Even though slot #1 defaults to 1?
> 
>  In any event, I've tried all combinations, and I still get the same behavior.  This is with v1.6.2.20110115.  This is repeatable here, using symbol 7404-1 from the default installed library.
> 
>  This seems like a pretty serious issue; can anyone shed a little light on it?

Absolutely mysterious. I've never seen behavior like this and I cannot reproduce it using your procedure.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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