On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 08:29 -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 8/31/2011 2:12 AM, jean-pierre charras wrote: > > Le 30/08/2011 21:44, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : > >> I was looking over open bug reports a while back and ran across this > >> report: > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/593782. While technically not a > >> bug, I > >> can understand why a user would be confused by this. Should we prevent > >> duplicate sheet names? In the future it may be a problem as I am trying to > >> avoid using the current time stamp solution to hierarchical schematic > >> designs > >> in the new schematic file format for readability reasons. Anyone else > >> have any > >> thoughts on this? > >> > >> Wayne > >> > > > > I believe we should not accept duplicate sheet names. > > Yes this is confusing, and duplicate sheet names are a potential source of > > bugs. > > > > JP, > > Thanks for the reply. I already have a patch to prevent the user from > entering > duplicate sheet names on a schematic page. However, it doesn't address the > case where schematics already have duplicate sheet names. I'll commit the > changes that I have and take a look at what can be done for existing > schematics. > > Wayne
One possibility is to add a 'description' field (which is what many users would have been using the 'name' field for if they used duplicates), copy the name into the description and then unique the name any way you like. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
