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Re: Failure-to-save bug in eeschema library editor ?
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Øyvind Aabling wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
On 11/10/2011 1:15 PM, Øyvind Aabling wrote:
There seems to be a problem with the eeschema
library editor in recent BZR versions of kicad:
Changes to edited parts aren't saved to disk, and the only
way to exit the library editor is to discard all changes :-(
I've now checked the BZR versions that I've been running lately,
and it works in BZR 3001 and 3153, and is broken in 3212,
3221 and 3226 (so it broke somewhere between 3153 and 3212).
I've updated my Debian recently, so I pulled BZR 3001
again (had deleted it :-) and the latest (BZR 3226), and
compiled both, to see if the problem was (in some obscure way)
related to library files on my system that have been upgraded
since compiling the various versions of kicad (No, it isn't ...).
To recreate:
Start eeschema,
start the Library Editor,
"Select working library",
(any library that you have write access to, e.g. in your project dir)
"Load component to edit from the current lib",
(any component will do)
"Create a new component from the current one",
(or change the component in some way, or create a new
component, or ... - anything that's considered a change)
"Update current component in current library",
(this step can be skipped - the next step will
then ask for inclusion of the changes, which
doesn't make any difference on the behaviour)
"Save current library to disk"
Include last component changes? Yes
Modify library file "<name>.lib"? Yes
Now, the <name>.lib and/or <name>.dcm file(s) should have been
updated, but no, they're not, and the "Save current library to disk"
icon (far left) doesn't inactivate (gray out) either.
I do not have this problem on 64 bit Debian Testing using KiCad version BZR
3226 and wxWidgets 2.8.12 even with all of the fancy new Gnome 3 stuff.
The library file changes are saved properly and the save current library
tool bar icon and file menu entry are disabled as expected.
Well, I kinda suspected that, as such a major
problem probably couldn't go unnoticed for long :-)
I'm also using 64-bit Debian Testing, but with wxWidgets 2.8.10.1-3.1.
With wxWidgets upgraded to 2.8.12.1-2, I've now recompiled a
clean BZR 3226 tree with $MAKE unset (normally set to "make -j5").
The problem isn't in wxWidgets or the parallel
make, as the problem still persists :-(
Since you don't see this problem on a similar system, it sounds like
my system contains a buggy version of some (other) library - one that
contains a feature not used in kicad until somewhere between 3153 and 3212.
Even though I upgraded only a few weeks ago, apt-get now wants
to update almost 1k packages (out of 3k), so I think I'll do a
full (dist-)upgrade tomorrow, and see if that makes a difference.
I've now done an apt-get dist-upgrade (1k packages updated,
2k unchanged), and have recompiled various kicad versions.
The problem still persists after the upgrade, so I've also done
a binary search between BZR revisions 3153 and 3212 (and also
did 3227), to determine the exact revision containing the break:
bzr update -r revno:XXXX ; rsync ./ ../kicad-test ;
cd ../kicad-test ; make build ; cd build ; cmake ;
make ; make install ; kicad (start eeschema, test it ...)
The result is:
BZR 3153: Works
BZR 3180: Works
BZR 3195: Works
BZR 3203: Works
BZR 3204: Broken
BZR 3205: Broken
BZR 3208: Broken
BZR 3212: Broken
BZR 3227: Broken
So, it's something in BZR 3204 that hits me.
I've looked at a "diff -ur" between the 3203 and 3204 source trees,
and have determined that it's the changes to common/basicframe.cpp
that breaks the Library editor Save function for me:
--- === ---
diff -ur kicad-3203/common/basicframe.cpp kicad-3204/common/basicframe.cpp
--- kicad-3203/common/basicframe.cpp 2011-11-11 12:20:58.000000000 +0100
+++ kicad-3204/common/basicframe.cpp 2011-11-11 12:21:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -543,25 +543,21 @@
{
wxString msg;
- wxCHECK_MSG( aFileName.IsOk(), false, wxT( "Invalid file name object. Bad programmer!" ) );
+ wxCHECK_MSG( aFileName.IsOk(), false,
+ wxT( "File name object is invalid. Bad programmer!" ) );
+ wxCHECK_MSG( !aFileName.GetPath().IsEmpty(), false,
+ wxT( "File name object path <" ) + aFileName.GetFullPath() +
+ wxT( "> is not set. Bad programmer!" ) );
if( aFileName.IsDir() && !aFileName.IsDirWritable() )
{
msg.Printf( _( "You do not have write permissions to folder <%s>." ),
GetChars( aFileName.GetPath() ) );
}
- else if( !aFileName.FileExists() )
+ else if( !aFileName.FileExists() && !aFileName.IsDirWritable() )
{
- // Extract filename path, and if void, uses the CWD
- // because IsDirWritable does not like void path
- wxString filedir = aFileName.GetPath();
- if( filedir.IsEmpty() )
- filedir = wxGetCwd();
- if( !aFileName.IsDirWritable(filedir) )
- {
- msg.Printf( _( "You do not have write permissions to save file <%s> to folder <%s>." ),
- GetChars( aFileName.GetFullName() ), GetChars( filedir ) );
- }
+ msg.Printf( _( "You do not have write permissions to save file <%s> to folder <%s>." ),
+ GetChars( aFileName.GetFullName() ), GetChars( aFileName.GetPath() ) );
}
else if( aFileName.FileExists() && !aFileName.IsFileWritable() )
{
--- === ---
AFAICS, all other changes between 3203
and 3204 are irrelevant for this problem.
The wxCHECK_MSG's are probably harmless (unless they
have sideeffects ?), and why these changes hits me and
not you (_any_ of you ?), I can't imagine, but ...:
By reverting this file (and only this file) back to 3203, the Library
editor Save function works again for me in 3204, just as in <= 3203.
As common/basicframe.cpp is unchanged between 3204 and 3227, I've
also recompiled 3227 with the 3203 version of common/basicframe.cpp,
and then Libedit Save works in 3227 also :-)
Apart from the (catastrophic) failure to save the .lib file,
there's one more difference between working and broken versions,
as the "Save current library to disk" button behaves different.
On working versions, it looks like this:
* open eeschema
* open Library editor
* select a writable working lib, e.g. in the project dir
* select an existing part
# The Save button is inactive
* make a change to the current part
# The Save button is now active
* Press "Save"
Popup: "Include last component changes?"
# The Save button is still active
* Select Yes
Popup: "Component "xxx" already exists. Change it?"
# The Save button is now _inactive_ !-)
* Select Yes
Popup: "Modify libray file "xxx.lib"?"
# The Save button is again active
* Select Yes
# The Save button is now _inactive_, and the lib file(s) is/are saved :-)
On broken versions, the Save button stays active (not grayed out)
during the whole dialog (same three popup windows), and it also
stays active after (where the file should have been saved).
[]
Btw., "bzr -r revno:3001 update" _does_ downgrade the source to
BZR 3001, and the resulting kicad _is_ the older version (old style
icons and layout, and w/o the lib editor bug), but it presents
itself in the kicad titlebar as the newest BZR release ?
This was a bit confusing at first ...
Run "make rebuild_cache" before running "make" to update the version file
every time you update your source branch. Otherwise the version file will
be out of synch with the repo version.
This was just a minor confusion, but as I copy (rsync) a clean and
freshly updated (or in this case, downgraded) bzr source tree to another
location for cmake + make, I found this behaviour a bit strange.
"make rebuild_cache" sounds like the right cure, although
I don't quite understand why it should be necessary.
... unless the bzr tree contains a file with the newest known release
no. in it, which then gets used by kicad (w/o the "make rebuild_cache").
Wayne
Øyvind.
A "make rebuild_cache" doesn't make any difference to
the reported kicad version (or to build/version.h):
$ bzr update -r revno:3203
Tree is up to date at revision 3203 of branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing
$ bzr help revno
Purpose: Show current revision number.
$ bzr revno
3227
# No, that's the _latest_ revno, not the _current_ revno :-(
$ make build ; cd build
$ DST=/usr/local/kicad-3203
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DST -DKICAD_TESTING_VERSION=ON ../
Build testing (unstable) version of Kicad
-- Check for installed OpenGL -- found
-- Check for installed wxWidgets -- found
-- Bazaar version control system version found.
-- Kicad Bazaar build version: (2011-11-11 BZR 3227)
# No, wrong ...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/kicad/kicad-3203/build
$ make rebuild_cache
Running CMake to regenerate build system...
Build testing (unstable) version of Kicad
-- Check for installed OpenGL -- found
-- Check for installed wxWidgets -- found
-- Bazaar version control system version found.
-- Kicad Bazaar build version: (2011-11-11 BZR 3227)
# No, still wrong ...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/kicad/kicad-3203/build
As make rebuild_cache aparantly just reruns cmake, this failure is not
surprising, as cmake also reports the wrong (i.e. most recent) version.
The most recent version is in .bzr/branch/last-revision, but I can't find
the current version anywhere, except maybe in .bzr/checkout/dirstate.
That file is binary, so grep finding 3203
there could easy be a false positive, though.
Since "bzr revno" reports the latest revno, even though "bzr help revno"
says it should be the current revno, maybe this is a bizarre (bzr ;-) bug ?
Øyvind.
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