[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] changed so 'No copper pour' set as default in a new keepout zone

2017-04-21 Thread Joseph Chen
Attached is a trivial patch that puts a check mark on the check-box of "No copper pour" when a new "Keepout Area Properties" dialog window is popped up. The problem: With pcbnew, when a new keepout zone was created, the dialog window of "Keepout Area Properties" popped up. This dialog

[Kicad-developers] Broken Filling Zone: No Longer Working with Keepout Zones

2017-04-18 Thread Joseph Chen
Here is a bug tacker for the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1683297 This is observed from the latest ( git SHA1 ID: 01f5a129a317522f544e8bf75f4f36668dae1681) build of the master branch, running in Ubuntu 16.04. This can be verified by creating a copper zone, and then creating a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Enabling Esc/Enter keys default for "Footprint Properties" dialogue?

2017-04-17 Thread Joseph Chen
a écrit : On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 04:05:10PM +0200, jp charras wrote: Le 16/04/2017 à 08:38, Joseph Chen a écrit : Does someone here know how to make this work? With pcbnew's "footprint properties" dialogue window, the ESC and ENTER keys are not functioning as defaults as wit

Re: [Kicad-developers] Latest Master Build: Drag Zone Outlines no longer working in legacy view

2017-04-17 Thread Joseph Chen
On 04/16/2017 10:36 AM, jp charras wrote: Den 16/04/2017 09.39 skrev "Joseph Chen" <joseph.che...@yahoo.com <mailto:joseph.che...@yahoo.com>>: Just built kicad from the latest master branch and noticed that pcbnew's drag zone outlines are no longer workin

[Kicad-developers] Latest Master Build: Drag Zone Outlines no longer working in legacy view

2017-04-16 Thread Joseph Chen
Just built kicad from the latest master branch and noticed that pcbnew's drag zone outlines are no longer working for me. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

[Kicad-developers] Enabling Esc/Enter keys default for "Footprint Properties" dialogue?

2017-04-16 Thread Joseph Chen
Does someone here know how to make this work? With pcbnew's "footprint properties" dialogue window, the ESC and ENTER keys are not functioning as defaults as with the "pad properties" dialogue window. This inconsistency is a bit of annoying and definite slows me down during PCB layout. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Differential pair DRC Errors

2017-03-14 Thread Joseph Chen
On 03/11/2017 12:58 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: On 13.02.2017 01:59, Andy Peters wrote: I route the signals and run the DRC, and for every corner in the trace pairs, I get an ErrType(x): “Two Track Ends Too Close” complaint. Sometimes it’s ErrType(16), sometimes it’s ErrType(17), the rest

Re: [Kicad-developers] "Save and Exit" problem?

2017-02-20 Thread Joseph Chen
--Joe Chen On 2/20/2017 2:50 AM, Joseph Chen wrote: Is it a know issue? Just compiled the latest and found "Save and Exit" is no longer saving the changes of not using the rescued parts. The net effect is that a new start keeps popping up "Rescue Helper" asking if to rescued th

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Rearranged Part Editor Icon Positions

2017-02-20 Thread Joseph Chen
Attached is a patch for rearranging part editor icon positions. The changes were made to rearrange the positions of the first 5 icons in the part editor so that they are consistent with footprint editor. --Joe Chen >From c450e877e65a57a95733f0ff93f53fc281b8e999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Swapping Part Editor Icon Order to be consistent to Footprint Editor

2017-02-20 Thread Joseph Chen
object to new library tool bar buttons so they are also consistent between the two editors. On 2/20/2017 1:11 AM, Joseph Chen wrote: The attached patch is a very trivial change for swapping an icon order inside eeschema's part editor. This change will make the part editor to be consistent

Re: [Kicad-developers] "Save and Exit" problem?

2017-02-20 Thread Joseph Chen
; 5. Click "OK" again for "No Symbols were rescued" window 6. Immediately, Click "File->Close", and Click "Save and Exist" 7. Exit "kicad" Now start over from Step 1, the latest kicad will keep popping up the window from Step 3. And this is no

[Kicad-developers] "Save and Exit" problem?

2017-02-19 Thread Joseph Chen
Is it a know issue? Just compiled the latest and found "Save and Exit" is no longer saving the changes of not using the rescued parts. The net effect is that a new start keeps popping up "Rescue Helper" asking if to rescued the old parts from the old cache library. Here is the version

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Swapping Part Editor Icon Order to be consistent to Footprint Editor

2017-02-19 Thread Joseph Chen
The attached patch is a very trivial change for swapping an icon order inside eeschema's part editor. This change will make the part editor to be consistent with the footprint editor's icon order. The issue, no mater how trivial it may be to other user, is that when editing a part, you need

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version string updates.

2016-11-28 Thread Joseph Chen
On 11/27/2016 11:44 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2016-11-28 0:01 GMT+01:00 Joseph Chen <joseph.che...@yahoo.com>: As I see it, KiCAD now is using a backward schema in versioning, after converted to GIT repo. As most of you guys already know it, GIT has a command "git descr

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version string updates.

2016-11-27 Thread Joseph Chen
As I see it, KiCAD now is using a backward schema in versioning, after converted to GIT repo. As most of you guys already know it, GIT has a command "git describe --dirty" for outputting a precise trackable version info. So regardless of branches, the version string should be set by the

[Kicad-developers] Turning Off printf("H-net %d\n", aHead.Net()) ?

2015-11-02 Thread Joseph Chen
I recently started seeing lots of lines of printed texts on the terminal where kicad is started in Linux, and a quick grep shows the following line does the printouts: pcbnew/router/pns_line_placer.cpp:1046:printf("H-net %d\n", aHead.Net()); It seems to be a debug output line. Is this

Re: [Kicad-developers] Boost 1.59 and MinGW build errors.

2015-10-19 Thread Joseph Chen
For Linux, Boost 1.59 seems working fine, at least for me for over a month now. I've been using Boost 1.59 compiled from the source on my Ubuntu 15.04, and Kicad's been building and running OK for a while with me. --JC On 10/19/2015 08:45 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Boost 1.59 was just

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema ERC should detect unmatched local labels

2015-09-28 Thread Joseph Chen
On 09/25/2015 10:25 AM, jp charras wrote: Le 25/09/2015 07:36, Joseph Chen a écrit : Hi @JP, Have you got a chance to review this submitted patch? --JC Yes, I had a look at the patch. Currently, it creates to many false detections: - It does not see the fact a local label is connected

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema ERC should detect unmatched local labels

2015-09-24 Thread Joseph Chen
Hi @JP, Have you got a chance to review this submitted patch? --JC On 09/14/2015 10:58 PM, Joseph Chen wrote: @JP, Attached you can find the patch file for the improvement of optional ERC's detecting local labels. Short description: With this patch, there is an added extra check

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema ERC should detect unmatched local labels

2015-09-14 Thread Joseph Chen
tched" local labels. I also attached a new test schematic tar ball that can be used for testing the patch functions. Thank you for all your valuable comments and insights. I would appreciate anyone could test this patch out and provide comments and inputs. --JC On 09/14/2015 03:30 AM,

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixed a False BZR Version Number Built From Local Branch of GIT-Source-Mirror

2015-09-13 Thread Joseph Chen
9-13 20:05 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com>: Joseph, I committed your patch in the product branch r6191. Thank you for you contribution to KiCad. Cheers, Wayne On 9/13/2015 12:50 AM, Joseph Chen wrote: @Wayne & @Nick, Attached you can find the new patch file th

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-13 Thread Joseph Chen
On 09/13/2015 01:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: The docs in lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/doc are obsolete. The latest docs are on github and are rebuilt whenever changes are made to the git repo and should be downloaded from there. It looks like your original problem is that you either did not

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema ERC should detect unmatched local labels

2015-09-13 Thread Joseph Chen
@Wayne, Your email server rejected this email that has a tar ball of kicad schematic files. Hope others who can get the attached tar ball try it out with the ERC and report the findings back here. --Joe On 09/13/2015 10:17 PM, Joseph Chen wrote: @Wayne and @JP, Could try ERC

[Kicad-developers] Problem of kicad-source and kicad-doc Packaging Help Documents

2015-09-12 Thread Joseph Chen
Is this a known issue or just me? With running KiCAD on my linux, I have long noticed that the "help documents" are not accessible by the running "KiCAD". I recently found a work-around to make them work for me. The work-around is to create some symbolic links as shown here (if your email

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema ERC should detect unmatched local labels

2015-09-12 Thread Joseph Chen
we make every effort to keep the product branch as stable as possible so that developers and users are willing to keep testing it. Cheers, Wayne On 9/11/2015 3:58 AM, Joseph Chen wrote: > @JP and @Wayne, > > Would you take a patch for fixing this ERC'

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixed a False BZR Version Number Built From Local Branch of GIT-Source-Mirror

2015-09-12 Thread Joseph Chen
just those two points, I think it is fine to merge it. 2015-09-11 10:16 GMT+02:00 Joseph Chen <joseph.che...@yahoo.com>: Hi Nick, I very much like the true BZR version number that is produced by your script when compiling from the git mirror source. This is very helpful when tracking the match

[Kicad-developers] Eeschema ERC should detect unmatched local labels

2015-09-11 Thread Joseph Chen
@JP and @Wayne, Would you take a patch for fixing this ERC's not detecting local labels? I know we were reminded not to, but I believe this fix should be in the stable release. See my explanation below. On 09/01/2015 12:09 AM, jp charras wrote: Le 01/09/2015 04:59, Joseph Chen a écrit

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixed a False BZR Version Number Built From Local Branch of GIT-Source-Mirror

2015-09-11 Thread Joseph Chen
w if it should be committed. Thanks, Wayne On 8/30/2015 4:24 PM, Joseph Chen wrote: Please review and apply the attached patch file of CreateGitVersion.cmake. *Issue to be fixed: a False BZR version number** * The details: After cloning the repo of git-source-mirror, and working in my own local branc

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixed a False BZR Version Number Built From Local Branch of GIT-Source-Mirror

2015-08-30 Thread Joseph Chen
Please review and apply the attached patch file of CreateGitVersion.cmake. *Issue to be fixed: a False BZR version number** * The details: After cloning the repo of git-source-mirror, and working in my own local branch, and committing a X times, the BZR version-number that is generated by file

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Eeschema ERC now catches errors of unmatched global labels

2015-08-27 Thread Joseph Chen
This is a resubmitting of a patch file (attached) that fixes the issue of [Bug 1487945]. This time it it more coding style compliant as suggested in other developer's comments. The fix passed tests on Ubuntu 15.04, based off KiCAD BZR 6133 --Joe -- Here is the copy paste of the patch

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Enable Eeschema ERC to Generate Errors for Unmatched Global Labels

2015-08-27 Thread Joseph Chen
. The wxString line should probably also have a space in betweent he two end parenthesis, but I am not sure. And will add the space as you suggested. --Joe I have not reviewed the patch further than that, FWIW. 2015-08-27 7:37 GMT+02:00 Joseph Chen joseph.che...@yahoo.com: I am submitting a patch

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Enable Eeschema ERC to Generate Errors for Unmatched Global Labels

2015-08-26 Thread Joseph Chen
I am submitting a patch file (attached as well) that enables the eeschema ERC to generate errors for any and all unmatched global labels. This patch resolves the issue that I reported in [Bug 1487945]. I have tested the patch on Ubuntu 15.04 and it passed all my test cases The patch is based

[Kicad-developers] How to Build KiCAD from Source Cloned from Git Miorr Souce?

2015-08-25 Thread Joseph Chen
Can someone point me to a good instruction of building KiCAD from the git mirror source? And What I missed that is resulting some errors shown below? BTW, my same ubuntu has been working with kicad-install.sh, but I just started trying the git source tree building. With the git source

[Kicad-developers] (kicad:5297): Gtk-CRITICAL Error

2015-08-22 Thread Joseph Chen
Does anyone know the possible causes for my following run-time errors? These are happening from my KiCAD BZR 6112 of self-compiled on Ubuntu 15.04: All KiCad --install-or-update steps completed, you are up to date. jchen@thermaltake:~$ kicad (kicad:5297): Gtk-CRITICAL **:

Re: [Kicad-developers] (kicad:5297): Gtk-CRITICAL Error

2015-08-22 Thread Joseph Chen
output. I saw stuff like in many other applications too. Mario From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Maciej Sumiński [maciej.sumin...@cern.ch] Sent: 22 August 2015 13:52 To: Joseph Chen; kicad

Re: [Kicad-developers] my build broke using Linux Ubunt 14.04.1 (WX webView issue)

2014-12-24 Thread Joseph Chen
I had that problem, too. The problem went away after I (1) installed libwxwebgtk-dev first, (2) and then downloaded the source of wxWidget-3.0.2 (google it will find it) and recompiled it with these steps: $ cd wxwidget-3.0.2 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr$ make$ sudo make install$ cd $ rm -rf

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] kicad-install.sh: Enhanced Error Handling with outcomes of cmake and make

2014-10-21 Thread Joseph Chen
to the deb package install.  Thank you for your contribution to kicad. Kind Regards, Wayne On 10/14/2014 8:57 PM, Joseph Chen wrote: Here is the patch (attached as well) for enhancing kicad-install.sh handling of two error situations with Debian/Ubuntu: 1.  The prerequisites are installed

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] kicad-install.sh: Enhanced Error Handling with outcomes of cmake and make

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph Chen
the deb file from a newer verison of ubuntu. So that could probably also be used. I have not tested it my self yet. There exists some PPA for wx3, but this was missing wxgtk or wxpython, I don't exactly remember. Nick 2014-10-17 6:43 GMT+02:00 Joseph Chen joseph.che...@yahoo.com: Hi Wayne

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] kicad-install.sh: Enhanced Error Handling with outcomes of cmake and make

2014-10-16 Thread Joseph Chen
of the installation script. I hope the patch can be integrated back to the main branch.  But if you decide not to do it, it's perfectly OK with me. --Joe On Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:06 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/15/2014 9:25 PM, Joseph Chen wrote:   Hi Wayne

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] kicad-install.sh: Enhanced Error Handling with outcomes of cmake and make

2014-10-15 Thread Joseph Chen
to the list of prerequisite packages.  I thought that was what needed fixing or am I not understanding the original issue? Wayne On 10/14/2014 8:57 PM, Joseph Chen wrote: Here is the patch (attached as well) for enhancing kicad-install.sh handling of two error situations with Debian/Ubuntu: 1

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Solved] CMake fails to find wxWidget in a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 install when trying to build KiCad

2014-10-14 Thread Joseph Chen
I have emailed out a patch for kicad-install.sh, which will fix the problem you encountered. --Joe   On Monday, October 13, 2014 12:14 AM, Benoît Roehr benoit.roehr...@gmail.com wrote: Finally succesfully build kicad on a all fresh Ubuntu 14.04 yesterday. apt-get build-dep kicad

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad-install.sh needs some moe error handling

2014-10-13 Thread Joseph Chen
Sure will do.   On Monday, October 13, 2014 10:40 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: If you can modify the script properly, please do so and send a patch to the mailing list.  Thank you for your help. Cheers, Wayne On 10/12/2014 10:26 PM, Joseph Chen wrote: If you

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad-install.sh needs some moe error handling

2014-10-12 Thread Joseph Chen
If you want me to, I can help with  modifying the script to enhance the two error handling and testing it with Ubuntu 14.04. On Sunday, October 12, 2014 3:55 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/12/2014 1:49 PM, Mark Roszko wrote: He wasn't commenting about

[Kicad-developers] kicad-install.sh needs some moe error handling

2014-10-11 Thread Joseph Chen
I have  been using kicad-install.sh script to install kicad in a few of  Ubuntu-14.04, and have found the script needs more error hadnling.  Here are some areas: 1.  install_prerequisites()This function is using a single command apt-get install for ALL of the software packages.  It would work

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build changes.

2014-09-28 Thread Joseph Chen
Thank you Wayne! --Joe   On Sunday, September 28, 2014 6:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: Fixed in commit r5154.  Please let me know if you find any other issues other than the fact that your distro may not have packaged wx3 yet. On 9/27/2014 2:07 AM, Joseph

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build changes.

2014-09-27 Thread Joseph Chen
 I was able to build kicad from this new revision, after some troubles with my Ubuntu. But I had to modify kicad-install.sh so it could keep going forward to a completion or stop when an error happened.  Otherwise, the build script just checkout source, installed a bunch of libray files and doc