Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

[Wayne Stambaugh]

Does anyone else have any comments on this change.  It makes sense to me
that on a new or empty project that the project path gets set to the
user's home path.  I see in the patch that it is fixed in kicad and
eeschema.  It might be a good idea to see if this behavior exists in
pcbnew as well and fix it accordingly.

On 6/14/2015 12:26 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a
> read-only directory on Windows:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510
> 
> The attached patch changes the default project folder to wx's
> GetDocumentsDir(), which should translate to "$HOME", "...\My Documents"
> (Win), or "~/Documents" (Mac).
> I tested it solely on Ubuntu.
> 
> There could be more scenarios where we want to do the same. I tried to
> extend this behaviour to Eeschema's standalone mode for starters, tell
> me if more needs be done.
> 
> However the behaviour of writing to some default directory without
> asking is unsettling. I suppose most noname.pro  /
> noname.sch wouldn't exist if a "Save as" popup was shown the first time.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

[Adam Wolf]

I like this change.

Adam Wolf

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Wayne Stambaugh 
wrote:

> Does anyone else have any comments on this change.  It makes sense to me
> that on a new or empty project that the project path gets set to the
> user's home path.  I see in the patch that it is fixed in kicad and
> eeschema.  It might be a good idea to see if this behavior exists in
> pcbnew as well and fix it accordingly.
>
> On 6/14/2015 12:26 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a
> > read-only directory on Windows:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510
> >
> > The attached patch changes the default project folder to wx's
> > GetDocumentsDir(), which should translate to "$HOME", "...\My Documents"
> > (Win), or "~/Documents" (Mac).
> > I tested it solely on Ubuntu.
> >
> > There could be more scenarios where we want to do the same. I tried to
> > extend this behaviour to Eeschema's standalone mode for starters, tell
> > me if more needs be done.
> >
> > However the behaviour of writing to some default directory without
> > asking is unsettling. I suppose most noname.pro  /
> > noname.sch wouldn't exist if a "Save as" popup was shown the first time.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

[Jean-Paul Louis]

I like it too.

Jean-Paul,
AC9GH

> On Jun 15, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Adam Wolf  wrote:
> 
> I like this change.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Wayne Stambaugh  wrote:
> Does anyone else have any comments on this change.  It makes sense to me
> that on a new or empty project that the project path gets set to the
> user's home path.  I see in the patch that it is fixed in kicad and
> eeschema.  It might be a good idea to see if this behavior exists in
> pcbnew as well and fix it accordingly.
> 
> On 6/14/2015 12:26 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a
> > read-only directory on Windows:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510
> >
> > The attached patch changes the default project folder to wx's
> > GetDocumentsDir(), which should translate to "$HOME", "...\My Documents"
> > (Win), or "~/Documents" (Mac).
> > I tested it solely on Ubuntu.
> >
> > There could be more scenarios where we want to do the same. I tried to
> > extend this behaviour to Eeschema's standalone mode for starters, tell
> > me if more needs be done.
> >
> > However the behaviour of writing to some default directory without
> > asking is unsettling. I suppose most noname.pro  /
> > noname.sch wouldn't exist if a "Save as" popup was shown the first time.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

[Wayne Stambaugh]

Hey Martin,

Your patch does not seem to work on windows.  When I try to open a new
project from kicad, the file open dialog still points to the kicad
executable path.  In my case it's c:\mingw\bin.  The Eeschema change
seems to work as expected.  Is it possible the path is getting changed
in kicad somewhere before the file dialog is called?  Please take
another look at your changes and see if you can resolve this issue.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 6/14/2015 12:26 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a
> read-only directory on Windows:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510
> 
> The attached patch changes the default project folder to wx's
> GetDocumentsDir(), which should translate to "$HOME", "...\My Documents"
> (Win), or "~/Documents" (Mac).
> I tested it solely on Ubuntu.
> 
> There could be more scenarios where we want to do the same. I tried to
> extend this behaviour to Eeschema's standalone mode for starters, tell
> me if more needs be done.
> 
> However the behaviour of writing to some default directory without
> asking is unsettling. I suppose most noname.pro  /
> noname.sch wouldn't exist if a "Save as" popup was shown the first time.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

[Martin d'Allens]

I managed to build KiCad on windows, it works as far as I can tell.

But to get it to work I had to remove a noname.pro that had been generated
before my patch was applied.
And with regedit I cleared HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/KiCad/kciad/file1.
Otherwise the stray noname.pro looks valid and there is no reason to
default to the home directory.

I don't think we should refuse to open a project named "noname.pro", so the
new behaviour will only apply to new installations.

I hope you missed this, or I should keep digging.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Wayne Stambaugh 
wrote:

> Hey Martin,
>
> Your patch does not seem to work on windows.  When I try to open a new
> project from kicad, the file open dialog still points to the kicad
> executable path.  In my case it's c:\mingw\bin.  The Eeschema change
> seems to work as expected.  Is it possible the path is getting changed
> in kicad somewhere before the file dialog is called?  Please take
> another look at your changes and see if you can resolve this issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 6/14/2015 12:26 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a
> > read-only directory on Windows:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510
> >
> > The attached patch changes the default project folder to wx's
> > GetDocumentsDir(), which should translate to "$HOME", "...\My Documents"
> > (Win), or "~/Documents" (Mac).
> > I tested it solely on Ubuntu.
> >
> > There could be more scenarios where we want to do the same. I tried to
> > extend this behaviour to Eeschema's standalone mode for starters, tell
> > me if more needs be done.
> >
> > However the behaviour of writing to some default directory without
> > asking is unsettling. I suppose most noname.pro  /
> > noname.sch wouldn't exist if a "Save as" popup was shown the first time.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

[Wayne Stambaugh]

There are several other places where it might be nice to use the user's
document folder instead of the CWD which is kicad executable path.  I
found two more places, new project in kicad and file open in pcbnew that
use CWD which typically the user will not have write access.  I fixed
both of these cases along with your patch.

On 6/21/2015 5:14 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> I managed to build KiCad on windows, it works as far as I can tell.
> 
> But to get it to work I had to remove a noname.pro 
> that had been generated before my patch was applied.
> And with regedit I cleared HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/KiCad/kciad/file1.
> Otherwise the stray noname.pro  looks valid and there
> is no reason to default to the home directory.
> 
> I don't think we should refuse to open a project named "noname.pro
> ", so the new behaviour will only apply to new
> installations.
> 
> I hope you missed this, or I should keep digging.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Wayne Stambaugh  > wrote:
> 
> Hey Martin,
> 
> Your patch does not seem to work on windows.  When I try to open a new
> project from kicad, the file open dialog still points to the kicad
> executable path.  In my case it's c:\mingw\bin.  The Eeschema change
> seems to work as expected.  Is it possible the path is getting changed
> in kicad somewhere before the file dialog is called?  Please take
> another look at your changes and see if you can resolve this issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 6/14/2015 12:26 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a
> > read-only directory on Windows:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510
> >
> > The attached patch changes the default project folder to wx's
> > GetDocumentsDir(), which should translate to "$HOME", "...\My Documents"
> > (Win), or "~/Documents" (Mac).
> > I tested it solely on Ubuntu.
> >
> > There could be more scenarios where we want to do the same. I tried to
> > extend this behaviour to Eeschema's standalone mode for starters, tell
> > me if more needs be done.
> >
> > However the behaviour of writing to some default directory without
> > asking is unsettling. I suppose most noname.pro
>   /
> > noname.sch wouldn't exist if a "Save as" popup was shown the first time.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use the OS Documents folder for default project instead of CWD

[LordBlick]

In response to a message written on 14.06.2015, 18:26, from Martin d'Allens:

Hi all,

This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a read-only
 directory on Windows: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510

IMHO, best default dir is last used dir. That should be selectable in kicad
preferences what user wants.

BTW. My other wish - Magnetic paths/pads toggle should be dynamically accessible
in handy keypress, not buried somewhere in general preferences.


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Best Regards,
LordBlick

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