Re: gEDA-user: Symbol Error

[D I Freeman <dif2@kent.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:37:24AM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> Here are some possibilities:
> 
> *  You have attached the "device" attribute twice.  Highlight the
> symbol, and go into the symbol editor (hierarchy -> down symbol).
> Turn on all invisible text (edit -> how/hide invisible text), and
> delete one of the two device attribtes.

Done.

> *  You also need to translate the symbol close to the origin.  In the
> symbol editor zoom way out & then move the symbol to the lower left
> corner of the screen.   This shouldn't affect your ability to load the
> symbol, but it is kind of a PITA that the symbol shows up waaaaaay
> displaced from the cursor.

Have fixed this.

> *  YOu have attached the "footprint" attribute at the
> symbol level.  IIRC, it should be attached at the schematic level.
> (Although I could be wrong about this . . . .)

How do I fix this? Where should it be added?

> If these don't help, then can you please be a little more explicit
> about what doesn't work about the symbol (what tool are you running
> when you get barfage)?  I was able to load it successfully using
> gschem-20031231 (CVS version).    

Sorry, simply, it wouldn't show on the screen when I tried adding it. This
however works now.

D