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[LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a message written on 26.06.2015, 16:14, from Chris Pavlina:
> Lately I've noticed a whole bunch of people coming into the IRC channel
> confused by the new behavior of cvpcb. Since it now pushes changes back to
> eeschema instead of writing a file, there is an extra step: you have to go
> back into eeschema and export the netlist again. A lot of people are seeing
> the "Cannot add new component due to missing footprint" messages and thinking
> there's a bug.
>
> Any chance of adjusting this behavior before the release to stop the
> confusion? Perhaps cvpcb could trigger a netlist write on save, or maybe
> pcbnew could use kiway to see the update footprints and pull them in / warn
> about them.
New Message box (on cvpcb closing) with message „Do not forget to export the
netlist.” and checkbox „I understand, do not show this message again.” should
solve the problem.


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Best Regards,
LordBlick