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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 26/06/2015 16:14, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Chris

What do you mean by
"you have to go back into eeschema and export the netlist again"

You have to export the netlist only once.
Cvpcb do not use the current netlist, and when closing it, you are in
Eeschema.


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS