At 10:23 AM 3/29/2002 -0800, Dennis Saputelli wrote: >it took about half an hour to find but i had saved the problem file >it did chunk down to a fragment and still shows the pad jump >i don't know what it proves because there are means by which i could >have moved the pad (except that i didn't)
This is not what I meant, sorry for the trouble Mr. Saputelli experienced finding this. I meant that if one could reproduce the problem, it would be useful to save the file (plus, I should have mentioned, a description of what it takes to get the pad to jump). Without that, without some way of demonstrating pad jump, a file with a moved pad is likely to be pretty uninteresting. As Mr. Saputelli knows, there are many ways to produce such an effect without involving a bug. He could have accidentally edited a pad location. He could have accidentally unlocked the component and thus cursor movement might move a pad. And, unlikely as it is, a computer glitch could produce such an effect. Most of us, it appears, have never seen such movement in spite of a lot of work with Protel PCB files. So, if there is a bug, it bites very, very rarely. Such bugs can be *extremely* difficult to find. I have suggested that Protel incorporate into the program a tool that records all editing activity. Such a tool, if it was operating when pad movement occurred (or any other obscure bug), would have a reasonable possibility of reproducing the bug conditions. But we don't have the tool, unless it is through some third-party utility that monitors and records all keyboard and mouse activity, plus file backup, with a facility for playing it back later. I think an animal exists, but I haven't seen it personally. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
