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[LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a message written on 19.01.2015, 14:00, from Sergey A. Borshch:
> On 19.01.2015 14:44, jp charras wrote:
> > It is not curious, libraries are loaded when starting Kicad. Therefore
> > when changes are made outside KiCad, they are not seen. Editing libs
> > outside Kicad is possible, but this is not an usual way of work.
> It's curious, because footprints in pcbedit not loaded when starting KiCad
> and can be modified without restarting pcbedt. What's the big difference
> between schematic and layout _libraries_? It's really curious why the same
> actions (move and copy block for example) looks totaly differnet in eeschema
> and pcbedit. Why the same code not reused, why not to use power of
> inheritance?
As I wrote, this is not only reuse same code, also need to be - in most economic
way - library patterns in scheme file - so its in fact file format change and
need some of reloading code.
BTW. With that primitive editor external library edition is really usual way of
work. ;-)
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LordBlick