Hm, that was too early. Just tried to fill zones again with the more progressed board and - guess what - the zone fill function is freezing PCBnew again!! Even the lates version!
In general I agree with you opinion about stability. And I understand that an automated filling of a complex shape is everything but simple. Cheers, Heiko --- In [email protected], Robert <birmingham_spi...@...> wrote: > > I'm using 20080825c, same as you. Fortunately the crashing wasn't an > insurmountable problem for me, but I'm pleased to hear it sounds like > it's been fixed. One of the things that impressed me about kicad when > I first used it was its stability. I too think the developers have > done a brilliant job, though personally I wouldn't limit that to the > last few months :). > > Regards, > > Robert. > > oecherexpat wrote: > > I just downloaded build 20090118 (unstable) and all problems were gone > > immideately! Because it's an intermediate version I won't use it for > > general editing but for the filling process at the end. > > > > I think the developers have done a brilliant job in the last few months! > > > > Cheers, Heiko > > > > > >> I played a bit more and I can reproducably crash PCBnew when adding a > >> new rectangular zone anywhere on my PCB! > >> I also tried to remove parts (tracks, components, etc) to find out > >> what might hold up the zone filling function. Aa a result, it really > >> comes down to stating with a bare board again :-( > >> > >> Have you tried the latest build - and if yes, is there any improvement? > >> > >> Thanks, Heiko > >> > >> > >>> Just to say I was doing something similar recently and kicad > > crashed on > >>> me a number of times whilst zone filling (the crash generally being > >>> preceded by a delay), so it looks like something's not quite right in > >>> the zone filling code. The crashes seemed completely random, so > > I've > >>> not been able to put together a useful bug report. > >>> > >>> I have some Windows crash interception and reporting code if the > > Kicad > >>> authors are interested. Unfortunately I don't think it could be > > made > >>> to work on Linux because it traps structured exceptions, but it sure > >>> beats trawling through the code looking for oversights. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Robert. > >>> > >>> oecherexpat wrote: > >>>> I did create some (around 5) zones on one layer. When trying to fill > >>>> the first one, PCBnew did freeze. Same result when trying to > > fill all > >>>> zones. > >>>> Is anyone else experiencing similar issues. Or does it just take > > ages > >>>> for PCBnew to do the filling? Does it depend on the > > complexity/shapes > >>>> of the zones? > >>>> I am using V20080825c on WinXP > >>>> Thanks, Heiko > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. > > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. > > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. > > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.25/1955 - Release Date: 02/16/09 06:55:00 > > >
