Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2022-05-29 Thread Brian Piccioni
Usually, pin swapping is constrained to the same package, so Unit A -> Unit B, or inputs of a particular unit. As I understand it, this is constrained by the schematic symbol definition. When I was an engineer, I always had to sign off on a layout, just in case the PCB designer did something

Re: [Kicad-developers] Get wxWidgets 3.1.5 package for MSYS2

2021-07-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
deepa Senanayake. On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 1:03 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Yes, I checked mingw-w64-x86_64-wxmsw3.1 gets you 3.1.5 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-wxmsw3.1 3.1.5-1 [installed]     A C++ library that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Get wxWidgets 3.1.5 package for MSYS2

2021-07-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
Yes, I checked mingw-w64-x86_64-wxmsw3.1 gets you 3.1.5 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-wxmsw3.1 3.1.5-1 [installed]     A C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Linux and UNIX (mingw-w64) On 2021-07-02 10:51 p.m., Pradeepa Senanayake wrote: Hello, I'm trying to build

[Kicad-developers] Error loading drawing sheet.

2021-06-30 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello Having put a great deal of work into a design and layout I find myself with "Error loading drawing sheet" when I load the schematic. I have tried all means to fix this. At one point I deleted the contents of the schematic and created a new (empty) one and that reports "Error loading drawing

Re: [Kicad-developers] MSYS2 Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_LIBRARY)

2021-06-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
it was removed because it could leave schematics in an undefined state under certain conditions. See commit 54e18f6b1f4c2199f8748fff82198f86522bef83 and the related issue for details. Wayne On 6/28/21 9:51 AM, Brian Piccioni wrote: Hello I have observed that Geographical Reannotation (my

Re: [Kicad-developers] MSYS2 Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_LIBRARY)

2021-06-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
e of the mingw64 one. On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 16:46, jp charras <mailto:jp.char...@wanadoo.fr>> wrote: Le 28/06/2021 à 16:14, Brian Piccioni a écrit : > JP > > Thanks for the quick reply > > bjpic@LAPTOP-70Q5CT1Q MSYS ~/kicad-source/build

Re: [Kicad-developers] MSYS2 Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_LIBRARY)

2021-06-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
~ On 2021-06-28 10:10 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 28/06/2021 à 15:51, Brian Piccioni a écrit : Hello I have observed that Geographical Reannotation (my contribution) no longer seems to update the schematic. Manual "Update Schematic from PCB" seems to work so I assume there has been a mo

[Kicad-developers] MSYS2 Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_LIBRARY)

2021-06-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I have observed that Geographical Reannotation (my contribution) no longer seems to update the schematic. Manual "Update Schematic from PCB" seems to work so I assume there has been a modification to the Kiway commands. In order to track this down I need to set up build on msys2. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.99.0-7573-ge07848d887 Warning: Missing ngspice + problems seting up a working development environment

2020-12-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
If you are just going to use Kicad and not build it from scratch, you are better off downloading the installer or one of the nightlies (https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/nightly/ at the bottom of the list) and running that installer. It will install in a few minutes

[Kicad-developers] Grouped items can't be locked

2020-10-31 Thread Brian Piccioni
I am curious as to whether this is intended behavior: I can't seem to lock a group of components. If I lock any or all before or after creating the group the group acts as unlocked. I think that locking a group is useful for example in the case of a board. Not my example, but imagine you have

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeSchema sporadically switches to "User Grid"

2020-10-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
tend to route on finest grid). Maybe it is just that? On 2020-10-28 11:41 a.m., Brian Piccioni wrote: Hello I have been having a weird problem for some time now. Every once in a while, eeSchema would place things off grid. I am unable to replicate this, it just happens. I noticed just

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeSchema sporadically switches to "User Grid"

2020-10-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
route on finest grid). Maybe it is just that? On 2020-10-28 11:41 a.m., Brian Piccioni wrote: Hello I have been having a weird problem for some time now. Every once in a while, eeSchema would place things off grid. I am unable to replicate this, it just happens. I noticed just now that eeSch

[Kicad-developers] eeSchema sporadically switches to "User Grid"

2020-10-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I have been having a weird problem for some time now. Every once in a while, eeSchema would place things off grid. I am unable to replicate this, it just happens. I noticed just now that eeSchema had switched to "User Grid" of 0.013 in (0.32 mm), which I suspect is the root of the

[Kicad-developers] Buses - what am I doing wrong

2020-10-27 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I thought I had figured out bus aliases, etc. but likely not. I have a bus alias {SD_SIGNALS}. I run a bus and put a label {SD_SIGNALS} on the bus. It is blue. I can unfold my signals from the bus. I run ERC and it flags my unfolded signals "Net is graphically connected to bus but is

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 Usability suggestion

2020-10-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
edit the severities by right-clicking on an actual DRC error (in the DRC dialog)? Cheers, Jeff. On 21 Oct 2020, at 17:44, Brian Piccioni wrote: Hello The power new DRC is great. I believe it would be more usable if the Board Setup -> Design Rules -> Violation Severity table

[Kicad-developers] V6 Usability suggestion

2020-10-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello The power new DRC is great. I believe it would be more usable if the Board Setup -> Design Rules -> Violation Severity table would be in alphabetical order. Until the table has been configured there are a profligacy of DRC errors, many of which are novel. The errors have names but

Re: [Kicad-developers] Can't see references - V5.99 what am I doing wrong?

2020-10-14 Thread Brian Piccioni
the current height, so almost a horizontal line? Ruth On 14/10/2020 16:05, Brian Piccioni wrote: Perhaps eye / no eye? The thing is, the difference between on and off is eyelashes + contrast. Depending on the display that can be pretty hard to differentiate. On 2020-10-14 11:00 a.m., Jon

Re: [Kicad-developers] Can't see references - V5.99 what am I doing wrong?

2020-10-14 Thread Brian Piccioni
Perhaps eye / no eye? The thing is, the difference between on and off is eyelashes + contrast. Depending on the display that can be pretty hard to differentiate. On 2020-10-14 11:00 a.m., Jon Evans wrote: > FWIW, I find the "open eye", "closed eye" a bit hard to differentiate. I'd prefer

Re: [Kicad-developers] Can't see references - V5.99 what am I doing wrong?

2020-10-14 Thread Brian Piccioni
ty changes the "references" and "values" visibility, but those two can still be changed separately? (e.g. to allow showing only the references text from footprints). -Ian On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:49 AM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Can't see references - V5.99 what am I doing wrong?

2020-10-14 Thread Brian Piccioni
Values and References controls to make this more clear... On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:49 AM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: I am working on a PCB with PCBNew from a couple days ago. I can't see the references. Silkscreen is on and the little eye is o

[Kicad-developers] Can't see references - V5.99 what am I doing wrong?

2020-10-14 Thread Brian Piccioni
I am working on a PCB with PCBNew from a couple days ago. I can't see the references. Silkscreen is on and the little eye is open but the references don't show up. If I edit a reference it is on the right layer and show is clicked. What am I doing wrong?

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problems with windows installers?

2020-10-13 Thread Brian Piccioni
Yes, that was the problem. When I clicked that button nothing happened. So I disabled the check, installed Kicad, and re-enabled it. On 2020-10-13 8:48 a.m., Mark Roszko wrote: You should be able to click a button to ignore the warning. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:54 PM Brian Piccioni

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problems with windows installers?

2020-10-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
That makes sense. I tried installing the same file which installed perfectly this morning and it hung. I'll wait a few days and try again ... On 2020-10-12 6:10 p.m., Mark Roszko wrote: It's just the usual Microsoft Smartscreen filter acting up. Heuristics are flagging it. There's nothing that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problems with windows installers?

2020-10-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
? On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 18:42, Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello I downloaded kicad-r18079.88102bca46-x86_64.exe and kicad-r18079.88102bca46-x86_64-lite.exe from https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/nightly/

[Kicad-developers] Problems with windows installers?

2020-10-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I downloaded kicad-r18079.88102bca46-x86_64.exe and kicad-r18079.88102bca46-x86_64-lite.exe from https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/nightly/ On running both throw up the Microsoft warning warning but clicking "Install Anyway" has no effect. My prior version

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pcbnew - wxWidgets Debug Alerts on startup

2020-08-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
I don't see any errors when I run a recent nightly from the Msys terminal Kicad or PCBNew. I do get a "Python error - 1 " but that's been there for a few days. On 2020-08-18 3:20 p.m., Ian McInerney wrote: I saw those when I opened up a windows build yesterday, but I haven't had time to dig

[Kicad-developers] Not a priority: building Kicad on Ubuntu on Windows (WSL)

2020-08-17 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello As I say, not a priority but I thought something I'd try. It might be useful to be able to build/run Kicad in WSL for testing. If it works it will mean people don't have to dual boot in order to test. I have two issues: 1) NGSPICE not found. Unfortunately I cannot get the NGSPICE

[Kicad-developers] ERC Rules Options missing?

2020-08-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I'm running my built Version: (5.99.0-2620-g2af4bd02a), release build. ERC Rules options seems to have disappeared. It is no longer part of the ERC dialog (where I think it should be) and I can't find it in preferences. Any suggestions? Brian

[Kicad-developers] Master won't build

2020-08-06 Thread Brian Piccioni
FYI I pulled master origin a few hours ago and it fails with [ 98%] Linking CXX shared module _pcbnew.kiface C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:

[Kicad-developers] Users grid - x, y

2020-08-03 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello While working on geographic annotation I note that it is possible to set different x and y for the user grid but the choice menu only shows one (I think the x). I also notice that in footprint_preview_panel.cpp it only takes one of the values. It seems the user grid setting menu is

Re: [Kicad-developers] Any chance I can get feedback on my merge request?

2020-08-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
clear if you were still working on changes to the UI based on your discussion with Eeli. Best, Jon On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:54 PM Brian Piccioni wrote: This is regarding Geographic Reannotation https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108 I don't understand the complete lack

[Kicad-developers] Any chance I can get feedback on my merge request?

2020-08-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
This is regarding Geographic Reannotation https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108 I don't understand the complete lack of interest/feedback. Its more or less been hanging for about 4 months. I try and keep it up to date with master, but it would be nice to have it accepted

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-25 Thread Brian Piccioni
: As of commit 33af2d9a, debug builds started working agian even though I didn't see anything that would have fixed this issue. The msys2 project just released gcc 10.2 which gets rid of all of the warning messages so you should probably upgrade when you get a chance. On 7/24/2020 8:05 PM, Brian Piccioni

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-24 Thread Brian Piccioni
which moved >     >     that from >     >     > pcbnew to the common Swig directory. I am not sure how that >     could have >     >     > broken things, but I think it would be a good commit to >     start with and >     >   

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
eventually this will tell you which commit changed the behavior On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:58 PM Brian Piccioni wrote: You can't imagine how happy it makes me feel to know it isn't some stupid little thing I did. I don't know how I can help though. I can try building a release version to confirm.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
. I don't remember seeing any swig changes recently. On 7/22/2020 9:30 AM, Brian Piccioni wrote: Using this script cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:/msys64/mingw64 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:/msys64/mingw64 -DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=C:/msys64/ming

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
ile generator rather than the eclipse one? ons. 22. jul. 2020 01.37 skrev Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>>: FWIW, I re-cloned Kicad master into an empty directory, created a new build directory, ran the standard build script cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \ -G

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
I'll try it now but but the makefile generator script I used worked fine for over a year until now. On 2020-07-22 2:39 a.m., Nick Østergaard wrote: Did you try to use the normal makefile generator rather than the eclipse one? ons. 22. jul. 2020 01.37 skrev Brian Piccioni mailto:br

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
ed in GCC 10.2/GCC 11 (I think they are hoping to release 10.2 this week). The linker errors appear to be Python related. Did you update your Python installation that KiCad uses recently? Can you confirm that SWIG and Python are being detected correctly bby CMake? -Ian On Tue, Jul 21, 2020

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
s some caching that is broken after a toolchain update? Pure > speculation. > > > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 16:47, Brian Piccioni > wrote: > > > > It is a non-release tag, but as a developer I sort of need it to compile > ... > > > > On 2020-07-21 10:45 a.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
. On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 4:42 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: When building I get a slew of errors or information messages of the type (see below). During linking I then get a pile of "undefined" errors. There are so many I can't re

[Kicad-developers] Profligacy of messages/ link errors building 5.99 on Windows 10/Msys

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
When building I get a slew of errors or information messages of the type (see below). During linking I then get a pile of "undefined" errors. There are so many I can't reproduce them all. When I link I get a fatal error. This is the Master branch downloaded a few minutes before compiling. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] DRC ladybug symbol origin

2020-07-16 Thread Brian Piccioni
I'm guessing because it finds bugs? On 2020-07-16 11:14 p.m., Ben Ellis wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know why the DRC symbol is a ladybug? Asking for a friend Best, Ben ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to :

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build on msys2 fails : libngspice-x.dll not found in any executable path

2020-05-25 Thread Brian Piccioni
Wayne Thanks for the suggestion! It didn't take that much time to build. When it was done, the output file had a different extension. pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-wxPython-3.0.2.0-9-any.pkg.tar.zst I am now trying to compile origin/master. On 2020-05-25 11:28 a.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build on msys2 fails : libngspice-x.dll not found in any executable path

2020-05-25 Thread Brian Piccioni
g make -j install   presently. perhaps they fixed the wxPython issue? On 2020-05-25 10:57 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 25/05/2020 à 15:33, Brian Piccioni a écrit : Unfortunately, while we seem to get past the libngspice-0.dll problem with the fix, the old workaround  for the python problem no lo

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build on msys2 fails : libngspice-x.dll not found in any executable path

2020-05-25 Thread Brian Piccioni
Unfortunately, while we seem to get past the libngspice-0.dll problem with the fix, the old workaround  for the python problem no longer works. cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \ -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF\ I believe this used to get around the pyhton mismatch. -G "Eclipse CDT4

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build on msys2 fails : libngspice-x.dll not found in any executable path

2020-05-24 Thread Brian Piccioni
I am glad to hear it wasn't finger trouble on my part at least. On 2020-05-23 11:55 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 23/05/2020 à 17:35, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : There is definitely something wrong but I'm not sure where the issue is. I downgraded both cmake a couple of versions but cmake started

[Kicad-developers] Build on msys2 fails : libngspice-x.dll not found in any executable path

2020-05-19 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I updated Msys2 (pacman -Syuu) and it borked the terminal (basically when building the nice percentages, etc., became more or less random  strings). I decided to reinstall Msys2. I wiped the directory and reinstalled. After doing so and following the directions at

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 breaking changes to eeschema - starting new refactor wise?

2020-05-13 Thread Brian Piccioni
James Yes, it is entirely separate. Geographic re-annotation require back annotation of the schematic. This required functionality added by Alexannder Shuklin. Annotation of the schematic does not require re-annotation of the PCB, however, my menu does offer the option to update the PCB

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 breaking changes to eeschema - starting new refactor wise?

2020-05-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
Nick Thanks for remembering me! I am still hoping for some feedback on my geographic reannotation feature. I did do some work on schematic reannotation but I think it makes sense to put this one to bed as soon as possible. Although geographic reannotation seems finished, I did hit some

Re: [Kicad-developers] Geographic reannotation - any feedback

2020-05-10 Thread Brian Piccioni
Thanks! Gabriel Staples Electric RC Aircraft Guy, LLC www.ElectricRCAircraftGuy.com <http://www.ElectricRCAircraftGuy.com> Check out my "Computa Pranksta" USB device sold on Amazon! (sent from my Android) Le dim. 10 mai 2020 à 8:51 AM, Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@docum

[Kicad-developers] Geographic reannotation - any feedback

2020-05-10 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I managed to update my Merge Request (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108) to master without any GIT screw ups. The only change I had to make to the code was the name of the PCBNew configuration method. It compiles and runs. I have been using this for some time

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema annotate block / specific component types proposal

2020-05-07 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello James I had been working on this for some time and ran into a brick wall so I set it aside. There seems to be an issue with the structures used within eeSchema (sheets, screens, etc.) which don't seem to consistently track UUIDs, etc. I suspect that this may be because eeSchema

[Kicad-developers] eeSchema : force refresh of all schematics

2020-03-31 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hi I am working on updating eeschema annotation. I expanded it to work on a selection and current sheet + all subsheets. I am stuck on a weird problem: my code does indeed update all the annotation. I have an unexpected problem with subsheets re-annotation sequencing but I know how to deal

Re: [Kicad-developers] Help with Gitlab, push failed to my fork

2020-03-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
Mario I don't know if this is your problem but some projects are set up to mirror the kicad source repository automatically (as mine was). In other words, remote origin did point like this origin  https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad.git (fetch) origin  https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad.git

Re: [Kicad-developers] Annotation Epic/Geographic reannotation

2020-03-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
sed on has diverged) @Ian McInerney <mailto:ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> since you already were reviewing, any comments on the latest? Best, -Jon On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 12:06 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello I haven't had any feedback/comme

[Kicad-developers] Annotation Epic/Geographic reannotation

2020-03-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I haven't had any feedback/comments regarding my merge request or Annotation suggestion for quite a few days now so I don't know whether my comments/pushes are being broadcast or people are simply busy working on other things. So, sorry for the spam. I just added this to the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposal to update eeSchema annotation?

2020-02-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
Cool! A great idea. I'd never heard of "epics" before this. On 2020-02-23 11:35 a.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 4:48 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello Now that Geographic Reannotation is a WIP I was thinking i

[Kicad-developers] Proposal to update eeSchema annotation?

2020-02-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello Now that Geographic Reannotation is a WIP I was thinking it might make sense to update eeSchema's Annotate dialog. I propose the following: *Change to dialog:* **Add to Scope:             Selection Add to Numbering:    Add/Remove prefixes (allows conformance to ASME Y14.44 and IEEE

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
. The timestamps are moving to UUIDs as we speak. The links are reset/updated when you do an Update PCB from Schematic and chose the “re-associate by reference” option.  (The timestamps/UUIDs encode said “association”.) Cheers, Jeff. On 15 Feb 2020, at 23:40, Brian Piccioni <mailto

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
speak. The links are reset/updated when you do an Update PCB from Schematic and chose the “re-associate by reference” option.  (The timestamps/UUIDs encode said “association”.) Cheers, Jeff. On 15 Feb 2020, at 23:40, Brian Piccioni <mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: I guess I

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
I guess I'd wonder then why provide Copy and Paste/Duplicate if the result is not usable? It seems like a sort of honey pot. On 2020-02-15 6:34 p.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 1:20 AM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: I think opti

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
same symbol" error on back annotation. This, in turn, causes problems with geographic reannotation. So, can somebody explain what (path / is? Thanks Brian Piccioni ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kica

[Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
;(path /" field is duplicated so I end up with two components with the same "(path /" causes, for example "Error: Pcb footprints R100 and R8 linked to same symbol" error on back annotation. This, in turn, causes problems with geographic reannotation. So, can somebody explain w

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cryptic characters in source

2020-02-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
Perhaps I misunderstand but I don't see anything (screen grab from notepad++ on Windows 10) On 2020-02-08 4:32 p.m., ja...@veith.net wrote: My editor shows non ascii cryptic characters in master cpp source what I cannot see in the browser. Here it is underscore M and I tried using Emacs what

Re: [Kicad-developers] Repeat request for help from icon maintainer.

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
work. I am providing details in case others have this challenge. I am now waiting for the compile to run but it seems happy. Thanks again! Brian On 2020-02-04 12:27 p.m., jp charras wrote: Le 04/02/2020 à 17:32, Brian Piccioni a écrit : JP Thanks for this. Unfortunately, inkscape and png

Re: [Kicad-developers] Repeat request for help from icon maintainer.

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
with a forced error. In general it seems that many related utilities under Msys2 are a dogs breakfasts. Perhaps for the moment it would be best if I simply made my bitmaps manually. Brian On 2020-02-04 9:34 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 04/02/2020 à 15:06, Brian Piccioni a écrit : Hello I emailed

[Kicad-developers] Repeat request for help from icon maintainer.

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I emailed earlier because when I follow the directions to create a new icon under MSYS2 it fails. This means that either 1) the directions are wrong or 2) I am following them incorrectly. Perhaps an icon maintainer can get in contact with me and work through this? I basically need to

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad | WIP: Geographical re-annotation (!56)

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
Eeli I wasn't aware the merge. Gitlab is a nightmare for me and I may have closed it accidentally. Ever since I opened my brianadtdocumenteddesigns account it would not let me clone kicad master. Eventually I found a workaround to let me clone alex's fork but then when I tried to fix my

Re: [Kicad-developers] Creating new icons

2020-02-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
directions icons from eeschema but rotated 0,90,180, and 270 degrees. If anybody knows how to do that programmatically that would be even better. Brian On 2020-02-02 1:01 p.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:09 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>>

[Kicad-developers] Creating new icons

2020-02-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello In light of Alexander's merge of back annotation I am updating my re-annotation function. The dialog I created is sub-optimal (I did ask for input). I am working on mingw64/msys2 Currently I select re-annotation direction by a text box "top to bottom, left to right", etc.. It would

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
reporting procedure but only report bugs there that reproduce in master. If you find a bug that doesn't exist in master but does exist in the MR, then add a thread to the MR with the reproduction steps. Thanks- Seth On 2020-01-28 08:04, Brian Piccioni wrote: Jp Actually, that is the bug: ev

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
RNs. This schematic has only had one sheet ever. I shall recompile the master branch and try and boil down the schematic to something simple to test. Brian On 2020-01-28 3:36 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 28/01/2020 à 01:10, Brian Piccioni a écrit : Hello I have been using Kicad while

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-27 Thread Brian Piccioni
it easier to figure out what (master) commit is the relevant origin point for the bug report. -Jon On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:10 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello I have been using Kicad while working on re-annotation (hopefully Alexander's merge r

[Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-27 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I have been using Kicad while working on re-annotation (hopefully Alexander's merge request will soon be accepted and I can dust off mine). I have been using branches of the current master. I have noticed a few issues which I think are significant and not related to Alexander's work

[Kicad-developers] What happened to buses in eeschema?

2020-01-24 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I picked up one of my old designs to update it and ran DRC in eeschema. I got a whole bunch of errors regarding buses ErrType(15): More than one name given to this bus or net ErrType(19): Invalid connection between bus and net items ErrType(16): Net is graphically connected to a bus but

[Kicad-developers] Issues with clang-format

2020-01-11 Thread Brian Piccioni
I know this isn't a "help me program" mailing list but given the number of formatting issues which I have caused in my merge requests I figure it would be better if I could get this solved. I am on Msys64 on Windows 10 platform I followed the instructions

[Kicad-developers] Request for Issue assignments

2020-01-10 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello Since I have found and suggested fixes for two issues, it occurred to me my limited skills with Kicad development might be useful to fixing issues. I am not good with UI design and probably would have limited value with esoteric bugs but I'd like to offer myself for assignments.

[Kicad-developers] What is the right build target to produce an installation zip.

2020-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello This is on Windows. I have been using make -install but this copies files to the Msys directories. How do I make a file I can unzip to/install to my Windows programs directory? Thanks ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Geographical reannotation complete and avaiable for test

2020-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
-09 9:39 a.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote: On 2020-01-09 06:21, Brian Piccioni wrote: I have been working for several months to incorporate RenumKicadPCB functionality inside Kicad. Meanwhile, Alexander Shuklin has done most of the heavy lifting by writing back-annotation into Kicad which does all

[Kicad-developers] Geographical reannotation complete and avaiable for test

2020-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
I have been working for several months to incorporate RenumKicadPCB functionality inside Kicad. Meanwhile, Alexander Shuklin has done most of the heavy lifting by writing back-annotation into Kicad which does all of the error checking, etc., necessary for re-annotation to work. Without his

[Kicad-developers] How do I refresh PCB or Schematic window

2020-01-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello & thanks for the help. I open a dialog in PCBNew to run my geographical reannotation code and all seems to work, however, I can't figure out how to get the PCBNew or eeSchema displays to refresh to show the result.  I can zoom in/zoom out manually and the new values appear but I would

Re: [Kicad-developers] Advice on merge request

2020-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
Evans <mailto:j...@craftyjon.com>> wrote: I see no problem directing people to your fork/testing branch to compile and test on their own. On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 11:43 AM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello

[Kicad-developers] Advice on merge request

2020-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
issues in the schematic and/or PCB so I would like to be sure I catch them all. I would, of course, flag that this is not an official Kicad release, etc.. Any objections/suggestions? thanks Brian Piccioni ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

[Kicad-developers] Issues with Github/Gitlab migration

2020-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
with their new Gitlab account after the migration they might try that. Brian Piccioni ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-12-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
As a complete amateur user I change footprints in layout all the time in order to experiment with spacing, how things look, modfy footprints, etc.. Sometimes you want to make a change to a library part, flag that part as a new part (I.e. BriansSOIC8), then update all SOIC8 in the layout.  The way

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixes for Visual Studio / vcpkg build

2019-11-29 Thread Brian Piccioni
to the CMake script. Best,Jon On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:56 PM Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com> wrote:Jon Despite MSVC Community being from MS, I see some advantages in using it, namely that it is basically a one-package solution: no msys2, no loads of other tools that have to be updated, etc

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixes for Visual Studio / vcpkg build

2019-11-24 Thread Brian Piccioni
Jon Despite MSVC Community being from MS, I see some advantages in using it, namely that it is basically a one-package solution: no msys2, no loads of other tools that have to be updated, etc..  My lack of cmake-foo meant I hit a roadblock when trying to build an MSVC recipe. One time I got so far

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
: Eeli KaikkonenSent: November 23, 2019 12:56 PMTo: kicad-developersSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB   la 23. marrask. 2019 klo 14.52 Brian Piccioni (br...@documenteddesigns.com) kirjoitti:By having a single integrated tool analogous to “Update PCB From Schematic” can

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
Indeed. I’ve had geographical annotation in c++ working for some time now. Having different commands in PCBNew and eeSchema could lead to all sorts of nightmares. During testing I found myself with “half done” projects where I had inadvertently got the annotation on the PCB and schematics out of

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
Eeli and Carsten Thanks for the additional info.  The reason I was working of the git information was in response to Simon earlier in this thread who suggested it. If git was the way to go I wanted to include it because people like me find that there is typically plenty of instructions regarding

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
cmakelists.txt or any other Kicad source file those edits will be lost.   From: Simon RichterSent: November 22, 2019 6:46 AMTo: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2 Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 09:30:48PM -0500, Brian Piccioni

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
l want to take a close look at KIWAY::ExpressMail() and KIWAY_PLAYER::KiwayMailIn()>>>>>>> Ok, I'll look at that. I think I've seen that in footprints back annotation.>>>>>>>> This is unfortunate.  Being able to work directly with on of the lead developers wou

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2 Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 09:30:48PM -0500, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Download the Kicad source files from https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror> Untar or unzip into /home/kicad-source-mirror-master This probably

[Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
Based on feedback received after I published a recipe for building Kicad with QT Creator, I managed to figure out how to build it on Windows 10 with Eclipse on Msys2.  I have posted that recipe here documenteddesigns.com/2019/11/22/building-kicad-on-windows-10-with-eclipse-msys2/ but, for

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
Thanks – I’ll have a look! From: Nick ØstergaardSent: November 18, 2019 2:29 PMTo: Dmitry RezvanovCc: KiCad DevelopersSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows) FWIW there are some tips on using eclipse

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
I would very much appreciate that and I think many devs would as well. Some of us are not as experienced as others ... From: Dmitry RezvanovSent: November 18, 2019 8:22 AMTo: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
I would very much appreciate that and I think the community would as well!  From: Dmitry RezvanovSent: November 18, 2019 8:22 AMTo: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows) BTW, I'm programming and debugging

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
Mario Sure! https://documenteddesigns.com/2019/11/17/building-kicad-with-qt-creator-on-windows-msys2/ BTW I will probably revise because I forgot a few easy details and want it to be complete. Brian From: Mário LuzeiroSent: November 18, 2019 8:10 AMTo: Brian Piccioni; kicad-developers

[Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-17 Thread Brian Piccioni
In case anybody is interested I managed to use the QT-Creator IDE to build Kicad on Windows. I documented the procedure here https://wordpress.com/post/documenteddesigns.com/483. But for posterity (and to make it easier to find) I’ve included it below. Note that this only seems to work with the

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