Thanks Jean-Pierre, That gives me a good idea of where to look. Your patch is good and should be applied. In the 3D cache manager the file extensions are checked against the list provided by each plugin; since I wasn't including the upper-case names in Windows I suspect that's where it failed.
- Cirilo On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:52 PM, jp charras <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 21/02/2017 à 09:02, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit : >> Hi folks, >> >> A number of STEP related bugs have been reported and at this point in >> time I suspect the problems have something to do with character >> translations. >> >> Bug 1: On Windows, STEP files with non-ASCII characters in the path >> are not correctly processed by the 3D plugin. In this case all code is >> running within one process and I believe I have a fix. >> >> Bug 2: On Windows files with the extension "STEP" don't seem to load. >> I'm not sure what's going on here yet; I need to read up on a few >> wx widgets. >> >> Bug 3: Well, no one has reported such a bug yet, but the underlying >> problem with Bug 1 should also affect the external kicad2step tool, >> but only on Windows. >> >> Has anyone observed such bugs and have anything to add? >> >> - Cirilo > > Hi Cirilo, > > I am thinking there are 2 bugs, not only one in plugins code. > > The first is related to the way the extensions are analyzed in the code. > The code consider only the ext in lower case on Windows. I am suspecting > there are somewhere case > sensitive comparisons in code. > > Just consider Windows platform and Unix platforms are the same to fix this > issue (attached a short > patch just as proof of this assertion). > The code will be simpler and more reliable. > It has also the advantage to be the same (showing the same dialogs and same > messages) on all platforms. > > The second is related to non ASCII filenames. > This is a different bug, not fixed by my short patch. > > Thanks. > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > 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
