Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-09-02 Thread Dan Roganti
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:20 PM, John Doty [1]j...@noqsi.com wrote: On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: In any event, I've tried all combinations, and I still get the same behavior. This is with v1.6.2.20110115. This is repeatable here, using symbol 7404-1 from

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-09-02 Thread Dan Roganti
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Dave McGuire [1]mcgu...@neurotica.com wrote: On 08/26/2011 01:47 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I still get the correct result. A stab in the dark: Maybe you have a copy of 7404-1.sym somewhere on your hardware that actually is a

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-09-02 Thread Dave McGuire
On 09/01/2011 07:50 PM, Dan Roganti wrote: I feel really, really stupid. This is exactly what happened. There was another 7404-1.sym file in my symbol path, an old one that I had created years ago, and it was shadowing the real one, overriding it when the sheet was

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-09-01 Thread Dave McGuire
On 08/26/2011 01:47 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Here's the procedure: - start gschem (v1.6.2.20110115) - open library, select symbol 74-series logic/7404-1 - place two instances on sheet ..snip.. - load file test.sch - note two inverter instances replaced with

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-09-01 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Dave McGuire wrote: Thank you for your assistance, and I apologize for the distraction. No worries. You are not the first to see ghosts when looking in the wrong direction... ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-26 Thread Dave McGuire
On 08/24/2011 09:43 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: In any event, I've tried all combinations, and I still get the same behavior. This is with v1.6.2.20110115. This is repeatable here, using symbol 7404-1 from the default installed library. Can you compile a step-by-step description of what

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-26 Thread Dave McGuire
On 08/23/2011 11:20 PM, John Doty wrote: This seems like a pretty serious issue; can anyone shed a little light on it? Absolutely mysterious. I've never seen behavior like this and I cannot reproduce it using your procedure. Very odd. See the click-by-click procedure in my other

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-26 Thread John Doty
On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:28 AM, Dave McGuire wrote: On 08/23/2011 11:20 PM, John Doty wrote: This seems like a pretty serious issue; can anyone shed a little light on it? Absolutely mysterious. I've never seen behavior like this and I cannot reproduce it using your procedure. Very

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Dave McGuire wrote: Here's the procedure: - start gschem (v1.6.2.20110115) - open library, select symbol 74-series logic/7404-1 - place two instances on sheet ..snip.. - load file test.sch - note two inverter instances replaced with entire-package symbols I still get the

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-24 Thread John Doty
On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: On 08/22/2011 07:45 AM, Kovacs Levente wrote: I open up a new schematic, place two instances of 7404-1, edit the attributes of the second one, promote the slot attribute, edit the newly-accessible one, change it to 2, save it, save the

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-24 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Dave McGuire wrote: You should promote the slot attribute for both instances. Even though slot #1 defaults to 1? In any event, I've tried all combinations, and I still get the same behavior. This is with v1.6.2.20110115. This is repeatable here, using symbol 7404-1 from the

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-23 Thread Dave McGuire
On 08/22/2011 07:45 AM, Kovacs Levente wrote: I open up a new schematic, place two instances of 7404-1, edit the attributes of the second one, promote the slot attribute, edit the newly-accessible one, change it to 2, save it, save the sheet, exit gschem, restart, and load the sheet. I am

Re: gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-22 Thread Kovacs Levente
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:55:49 -0400 Dave McGuire mcgu...@neurotica.com wrote: I open up a new schematic, place two instances of 7404-1, edit the attributes of the second one, promote the slot attribute, edit the newly-accessible one, change it to 2, save it, save the sheet, exit gschem,

gEDA-user: slotting question

2011-08-21 Thread Dave McGuire
I think I'm doing something dumb. I've never used gschem's slotting functionality before; I've always drawn my schematics with the entire package. But I'm trying it now, it's doing something unexpected, and I'm sure it's just me doing something wrong. I open up a new schematic, place