At 03:11 PM 4/1/2002 -0800, Dennis Saputelli wrote: >i am reasonable certain that my mysterious pad jump happened right after >and as a possible consequence of a File Save As
It would be rather surprising if that was not merely a coincidence. File Save As does not have any effect on the file itself, which remains in memory unchanged. Exceptions would be the edit flag, which is cleared, i.e., Protel knows that the file has been saved since it was last edited, and the file name, which is changed to the new name as the file is saved under that. It would be pretty hard to get this one wrong. But I suppose stranger things have happened. I'm not convinced that I have seen sufficient confirmation of this bug report to consider it verified. There simply is no coherence of conditions as yet. What we have is a report, confirmed by some, that they have seen pad footprints move; I don't think that any have reported that this was at all frequent. Since pad footprints can move by a number of normal processes, plus they could move from database corruption from any of many different possible causes, I would want to see either (1) many confirmations, or (2) confirmation with some similarity in the conditions under which the pad jump was observed. Mr. Saputelli has sworn up and down that he didn't do any of the things that would normally cause supposedly locked footprint pads to move, but he can't possibly know that his computer did not suffer the alteration of a bit, perhaps by a cosmic ray.... I'm *not* saying that it is unlikely that such a bug exists. I don't think Save As is likely to be related, but there are plenty of other things that could go wrong. If any of our readers observe pad jump, i.e., you are sure that you did not unlock the primitives of a component and that you did not edit the coordinates, perhaps thinking you were editing a track width, by all means, report it here, together with a description of what you were doing at the time; also the X,Y magnitude of the jump would be interesting. You should be able to determine the exact change in X and Y coordinates by noting the new coordinates, then replacing the component from its library.... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
