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Le 07/05/2012 08:48, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit :
> On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 09:15:11PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > AFAIK SCH_POLYLINE is only used for graphic ( non-connectable ) lines
> > although there is no reason that they couldn't be created as SCH_LINE
>
> SCH_POLYLINE at the moment can only be instantiated from 'p' .sch
> records, and that's all! There is loading support for layers but it
> mostly doesn't participate in the 'electrical' handling. grepping for
> SCH_POLYLINE in all eeschema and common gives:
>
> - A special case in DeleteCurrentSegment
>
> - The class definition itself
>
> - The load operation
>
> - It's in the collectors sets
>
> - Traces of a graphic polyline in the hotkeys file
>
> There is *no way* to instantiate a polyline, so unless there are some in
> legacy files I'd say it can be safely ripped out. Even in that case the
> load routine could simply instantiate the replacing SCH_NOTELINE (my new
> class name) for them. Anyway since now I'm sure it's graphic only I can
> finish the m_Layer-icide

SCH_POLYLINE was made to create graphic entities only (a schematic equivalent of LIB_POLYLINE).
But it was never used in the schematic editor, and cannot be found in legacy schematic files.
The SCH_LINE was always used for all schematic graphic lines and "polylines"

(The schematic editor never had a tool to create a true polyline like in Libedit)

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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