On 11/3/2015 10:47 AM, Mark Roszko wrote: > So it turns out all the demo files in KiCad are also affected by the > translated layer name mess.
Huh? I just checked. All of the kicad demo boards open just fine for me. Remember, copper layers can be translated because they have fixed ordinal numbers. Only non-copper layers cause the translation problems. > > They all more or less have the french layer names. So none of them > load as of bzr 6292 in pcbnew. > > > > So ignoring that issue for a moment, is there any reason why we cannot > add a more friendly error message? Like > > "Layer name is unknown to KiCad, please see XXX in documentation" or > something? Not sue what exactly but would help as I see it being a big > issue with people upgrading. I'm not opposed to this but I would have to verify that this could actually be done. It depends how the parser exception is raised. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp