I have noticed (and I have only been using 99 SE for a few months) that it does indeed have Altzheimer's. I have had the program completely erase my entire database (admittedly it wasn't large) including the backups.
I recently had a harddrive crash and had to reinstall Windows and Protel. Since then it has been MUCH better behaved. Michael Badillo From: Leo Potjewijd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2003/09/17 Wed AM 08:08:16 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ? Hi again. I just noticed sometghing strange with the Sch editor of P99SE(SP6). I set up my schematic libraries (all in one database) with custom part field names: 'tolerance' for field 1, 'power/voltage' for field 2 and 'class/rating' for field 3. Since these fields can be blank for a lot of parts, I further set those fields to blanks in the default primitives dialog. I also unchecked their 'hide' checkbox to facilitate later editing. When I place a part, the first time around these fields show up as an asterisk on the same location as the part type; ie I have a value and three asterisks on top of one another. The fields are not hidden (as expected), but the fields contain asterisks (which is NOT expected). When I rotate the part or left-click again the asterisks that shouldn't be there in the first place suddenly show up at their normal position (which is _very_ strange, to say the least). The weirdest thing however is that when I place the part, delete it and then place it again all behaves as expected: non-hidden, blank fields. Every subsequently placed instance of that part (wether left-click or with a new place command) is then OK, even when rotated... But when I place some other part from any library I'm back at square one. Closing libraries, databases or restarting Protel doesn't help; neither does 'update parts in cache' or 'update schematics'. Which brings me to these questions: Did I miss a setting somewhere? Did anyone see this before? Is there a solution to this? This is quite annoying..... Leo Potjewijd hardware designer IE Keyprocessor bv. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 20 4620700 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
