Re: gEDA-user: gschem's new pretty menus

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 18:21 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:30:40 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I nuked support for that scaling command - since the "correct"
> > default to match on-screen and printed are hard-coded in that branch.
> 
> Ok. 
> There was a wart showing up at this occasion. gschem silently quit 
> reading the resource file and continued to show the GUI when it hit the 
> line it didn't understand. This can lead to misleading symptoms. It 
> should either exit with an error on stdout. Or it should give an explicit 
> error message in the status window.
> 
> Would it help to file a bug report on this?

Wouldn't hurt.

I doubt it quit reading the rc file "silently", something should have
shown up in the log - or on stdout. Did you see anything like that?

If we remove that option for real, perhaps I'll have to replace it with
a function which prints a big fat warning instead.

-- 
Peter Clifton

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

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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