Having been working on the digikey-kicad-library lately, there's plenty of MFG PNs with commas, spaces, periods, various slashery, octothorps, parenthesis, semicolons, colons, asterisks, underscores, dollar signs, equal signs, ampersands. It's a pain in the behind to do substitutions.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 02:04:17PM +0000, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > On 12/28/2017 06:25 PM, Andy Peters wrote: > > > On Nov 18, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com > > > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > >> > > >> Diego, > > >> > > >> Thank you for the offer but I'm already working on it. It is not as > > >> easy to fix as it would seem. The problem is what to do when you do > not > > >> have write access to the library with the invalid characters. I have > a > > >> few ideas but it will take me a while to get it the way I want it. > > > > > > Hi, Wayne, > > > > > > I just ran into this problem. (I’m using the Dec 24 nightly on a High > > > Sierra Mac.) The thing is that my libraries are in a directory to which > > > Kicad should have write access. On my Mac, they’re at > > > ~/Library/Application Support/kicad/library > > > > > > The three parts in my library that use a forward-slash in the name are > > > new for a design I am still working on, so renaming them in the library > > > and then replacing the components on the schematic from the library > > > isn’t too painful. That said: should “policy” going forward be to > simply > > > not have slashes in part names? I guess this is probably wise, since as > > > I understand it, the .sweet format will be like .pretty with one symbol > > > per file and the file’s name is the symbol name. > > > > > > -a > > > > In the short term, we will have to disallow the '/' character in symbol > > names just like we do in footprint names. This was done with footprint > > names because the file name is the footprint name and '/' is a path > > separator. I may change this during version 6 development by using the > > internal symbol/footprint name ( there is support for this in footprint > > file format) rather than the file name and escape the '/' and ':' > > characters so that any character >=0x20 should be valid in symbol and > > footprint names. This change will not be backwards compatible but I > > think it's a better solution than what we are currently doing. > > This would make me SO happy. There are lots of parts whose actual part > numbers use naughty characters, and it's just ugly to have to make > substitutions manually. > > By the way, are we doing anything about special file names (mostly a > Windows issue)? These can be problematic even with extensions added. > What if I tried to create a part named PRN? > > > > > > > > >> > > >> On 11/18/2017 08:00 AM, Diego Herranz wrote: > > >>> Thanks. I'll chase that bug. > > >>> > > >>> Diego > > >>> > > >>> On 18 Nov 2017 11:35 am, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.n...@gmail.com > > >>> <mailto:oe.n...@gmail.com> > > >>> <mailto:oe.n...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236 > > >>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236> > > >>> > > >>> 2017-11-18 11:42 GMT+01:00 Diego Herranz > > >>> <diegoherr...@diegoherranz.com > > >>> <mailto:diegoherr...@diegoherranz.com> <mailto:dieg > oherr...@diegoherranz.com>>: > > >>> > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I'm testing a recent build (41f9c19b) on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits. > > >>> > > >>> When opening a schematic made with a nightly build ~2 months > > >>> old, the remapping dialog shows up. So far so good. > > >>> > > >>> I've followed the recommendations > > >>> in http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/ > > >>> <http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/> and most things > > >>> seem to be working fine. Every symbol gets remapped but 2. > Both > > >>> of which include '/' in their name > (e.g. PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT). > > >>> > > >>> Opening the schematic after the remap, it seems Kicad has > > >>> changed it to PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT. > > >>> > > >>> In fact, after a bit more searching, I've found out that as > soon > > >>> as the remapping dialog shows up, before clicking on "Remap > > >>> symbols" the '/' characters have been replaced to '_'. So I'm > > >>> guessing that is the reason why it can't find the symbols when > > >>> remapping? > > >>> "Warning: No symbol 'PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT' found in symbol > > >>> library table." confirms that the name was changed before the > > >>> remapping attempt. > > >>> > > >>> I have then tried to edit the broken symbols in Eeschema. > When I > > >>> try to assign "PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT" again, which can be found > > >>> through the "Choose Symbol" dialog without problems, it > complains: > > >>> " Symbol 'PIC32MX1XXFXXXD-I_PT' not found in library > > >>> 'MCU_Microchip_PIC32'! " > > >>> > > >>> Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? > > >>> > > >>> Many thanks, > > >>> Diego > > >>> > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > >>> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > >>> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > >>> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > >>> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > >>> <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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- -Ben
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