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[jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 14/05/2012 02:04, Henner Zeller a écrit :
> Hi,
> Small patch.
>
> When creating a new schematic or start a new board from your
> schematic, a new file is created. But in that case an
> attention-grabbing modal dialog pops ups telling the user that 'The
> file is not found'. The first reaction of the user is that something
> went wrong - but everything works as expected.
>
> It seems, someone 'fixed' this problem by adding a message to these
> dialog boxes that this is normal and expected if this is the first
> time happening.
> But this fixes the symptom, not the cause (scary attention grabbing
> modal dialog box).
>
> There is really no reason for such a modal dialog, and they should be
> used sparingly.
> In any other application, if a new file is opened, a message in the
> status line is telling about this. If at all.
>
> This patch fixes this: what used to be a modal dialog box is now just
> a status message "New file %s".
>
> cheers,
>    -henner

I am not enthusiastic about this patch.
The dialog about a not found file is usual, and most of application do that.
Assuming "try to opening a not existing file" should be "create a new file" is wrong.
There are lot of reasons when a file is missing and should exist:
For instance a file can be missing because it was forgotten when copying a lot of files,
or erroneous renaming file command, ...
and the user *should be* prompted.

The issue for new projects (and only for new projects) is in fact in Kicad,
that perhaps could create void .sch and .pcb files after creating the .pro file.




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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS