I've also noticed this occasionally during some large "undo" operations.
After rotating, once, or, twice, a section of a PCB with, say, 100-200 components, after a large "undo", around 5-15 of the components wouldn't un-rotate properly, or completely. Weird, Hun? _____________ Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ? > I have noticed (and I have only been using 99 SE for a few months) that it does indeed have Altzheimer's. I have had the program completely erase my entire database (admittedly it wasn't large) including the backups. > > I recently had a harddrive crash and had to reinstall Windows and Protel. Since then it has been MUCH better behaved. > > Michael Badillo > > From: Leo Potjewijd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/09/17 Wed AM 08:08:16 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEDA] P99SE has Altzheimers' ? > > Hi again. > > I just noticed sometghing strange with the Sch editor of P99SE(SP6). > > I set up my schematic libraries (all in one database) with custom part > field names: 'tolerance' for field 1, 'power/voltage' for field 2 and > 'class/rating' for field 3. > Since these fields can be blank for a lot of parts, I further set those > fields to blanks in the default primitives dialog. I also unchecked their > 'hide' checkbox to facilitate later editing. > > When I place a part, the first time around these fields show up as an > asterisk on the same location as the part type; ie I have a value and three > asterisks on top of one another. > The fields are not hidden (as expected), but the fields contain asterisks > (which is NOT expected). > > When I rotate the part or left-click again the asterisks that shouldn't be > there in the first place suddenly show up at their normal position (which > is _very_ strange, to say the least). > > The weirdest thing however is that when I place the part, delete it and > then place it again all behaves as expected: non-hidden, blank fields. > Every subsequently placed instance of that part (wether left-click or with > a new place command) is then OK, even when rotated... > > But when I place some other part from any library I'm back at square one. > > Closing libraries, databases or restarting Protel doesn't help; neither > does 'update parts in cache' or 'update schematics'. > > Which brings me to these questions: > Did I miss a setting somewhere? > Did anyone see this before? > Is there a solution to this? This is quite annoying..... > > > Leo Potjewijd > hardware designer > IE Keyprocessor bv. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +31 20 4620700 > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
