Re: gEDA-user: gschem slotting bug

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 12:57 +0000, Peter Baxendale wrote:
> Thanks for responding to this, and I've found out what's going wrong. I
> had "promote-invisible" enabled in my gafrc file and was editing the
> slot attribute which was then visible.
> 
> If instead I turn off promote-invisible, then add a slot attribute with
> the required number it works fine - pins updated at once.
> 
> I'm re-reading the gschem manual to try to understand this - it's not
> immediately obvious to me why it doesn't work the way I was doing it, or
> why you need a hidden slot attribute in addition to the visible one. I'm
> sure there are good reasons, though.

It may be a bug in the pinnumber update, picking up the one inside the
symbol and not letting the promoted one over-ride it. I'll investigate.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

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