At 01:35 PM 6/7/01 -0700, Brad Velander wrote:
>[...] using the left Explorer
>Pane to edit component fields in a schematic component? Select one schematic
>component in the list box, click edit, edit partfields or some other field.
>Close the Window. [...] Try to re-edit that same component by
>clicking the edit button again. You can't do that until after you have
>opened a different component to edit and closed it (yes you have to open it
>for editing, selecting alone doesn't work).
Yes, though many other operations will also free up the part. Essentially,
anything that causes the list to update or to be redisplayed seems to do
the trick. As Mr. Velander noted:
> As well if the field you edited
>is normally displayed in the window (part type, footprint) the list does not
>update until you edit another component.
This is essentially the same bug. Hitting the update button fixes both
situations. So does selecting a different type of primitive and then
returning to the display of parts. The update button fix would be fine
except that the list selection disappears and the list is displayed from
the beginning, so one has to find it again. It would help if wild cards are
used to limit the number of parts displayed.
The fact that these lists in the panel reset themselves when updated,
losing display pointers, is one of my pet peeves.
Editing the part directly (by double-clicking on it) produces the same
result. The changes are not shown in the panel and edit of the part in the
panel is locked out until the panel has been updated.
> Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.
Well, that's going about six times too far, in my opinion. I'd reserve
stupid for when the software engineers intended to accomplish something and
succeeded, and what they made is useless or worse. In this case, I very
much doubt the behavior was intended (or, it was intended as a
better-than-nothing fix of another problem, perhaps garbage from competing
edits). It is merely that the program displays this behavior because
something better has never been programmed. I'd call it a bug, though it is
certainly not a critical one.
The root problem probably is connected to the very fact that an update
button exists. Ideally, such displays would automatically update; but that
takes resources; the panel is tacked on to the program and apparently does
not have the kind of live link that would allow continuously updated
display. Rather than fixing the single problem discussed here, it might be
better for Protel to devote resources to the root deficiency.
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