Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

Thank you for testing it. I appreciate the help. On 06/21/2018 09:07 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: > Works great for me on latest nightly. Thanks again. > > On 20 June 2018 at 18:52, Wayne Stambaugh > wrote: > > Kasper, > > I just pushed the fix for this. 

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

Works great for me on latest nightly. Thanks again. On 20 June 2018 at 18:52, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Kasper, > > I just pushed the fix for this. Please test it and let me know if you > find any issues. Keep in mind that this only effects the library > nicknames. The '/' character will

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

Kasper, I just pushed the fix for this. Please test it and let me know if you find any issues. Keep in mind that this only effects the library nicknames. The '/' character will still be illegal for symbol and footprint names. Thanks, Wayne On 6/19/2018 4:04 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

Thanks Wayne, this will save me (and anyone else using monostable/kicad_footprints ) quite a bit of time! ​ On 19 June 2018 at 19:13, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I took a second look at this and you are correct. The library table > nickname

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

I took a second look at this and you are correct. The library table nickname character filter was changed to include the library item (symbol or footprint) name characters which is incorrect. The valid library nickname characters are different from the valid library item name characters. I will

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

Those are good reasons for not allowing slashes in the footprint names but I don’t see any reason for not allowing them in *library* nick names. As far as I can tell any character except : could be allowed before the :. It’s a pretty long standing “bug” so we could view it as standard. It will

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

AFAIK you cannot use slashes ('/') or colons (':') in either a library (footprint or symbol) table nickname or a footprint or symbol name. If you could use a slash in a footprint library nickname in the past, this was a bug and the fact that it worked was a fluke. The reason is that the library

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

Sorry to bring this up again but it just strikes me as a bit odd. Can we not allow slash characters in the fp-lib-table as before and not break backwards compatibility? It seems to read fp-lib-tables with slashes fine but current KiCad nightly won't let me edit it. I am up for making a patch if

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

On 5/8/2018 6:27 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: > I see, thanks for the info Wayne. So enforcing this for names in > _footprint_ lib-tables is simply done for code sharing? > > If I understand you correctly short-lived means for the lifetime of v5? This is correct. The plan is to fix this after the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

I see, thanks for the info Wayne. So enforcing this for names in _footprint_ lib-tables is simply done for code sharing? If I understand you correctly short-lived means for the lifetime of v5? On 8 May 2018 at 22:10, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > This was done because the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

This was done because the schematic file format parser would break with the forward slash character. I hope to fix this early in the v6 development but it's a pain we are going to have to live with until the new schematic file format is complete. I wish I had the time to do it all at once

[Kicad-developers] Slash character in fp-lib-table nick names?

Hi, looks like a forward slash character in nick names in the fp-lib-table is not supported any more (it can be read but it cannot be saved). This breaks compatibility with older fp-lib-tables somewhat. I have been using slashes in names to namespace fp-lib-tables created for my footprint