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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I take this back.  I just tested this by launching Pcbnew, opening the
footprint editor, and adding a new library in the footprint editor then
launching Eeschema and opening CvPcb to assign footprints and the new
library was already available in the footprint library table.  The only
way I see this not working is when Eeschema and Pcbnew are launched as
separate applications.

On 2/8/2016 9:23 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> This behavior is probably left over from when CvPcb was a stand alone
> application rather that a child window of Eeschema.  When launched from
> kicad, there should only be one footprint library table shared among all
> of the child windows and it should get updated for all of the child
> windows no matter which child window edited the footprint library table.
>  Updating the footprint library table when running the applications in
> stand alone mode will be a more difficult task to solve since you will
> have to use wxFileSystemWatcher to watch for changes to both the global
> and project footprint library table files.  I consider this a bug so
> please file a bug report for this when you get a chance so it doesn't
> get lost in the mailing list.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 2/7/2016 3:42 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
>> Still some more related oddities follow. As "PCB Library Tables" dialog
>> is available from Cvpcb and Pcbnew, the changes made from Cvpcb never
>> become available for Pcbnew until Pcbnew and Kicad project manager are
>> restarted. It is somewhat confusing to see dialogs pointing at the same
>> file, but one not actually reading from the file at all... Text editor
>> shows contents changed as expected.
>>
>> -Vesa
>>
>>
>> 07/02/16, 21:56, Vesa Solonen kirjoitti:
>>> This kind of sporadic behavior results from errors in fp-lib-table,
>>> depending what gets loaded before Github gets to replying no-go. The
>>> number of unfiltered components varies as well.
>>>
>>> Clearly a serious bug if local libraries can not be loaded when
>>> Github-plugin reports errors...
>>>
>>> -Vesa
>>>
>>>
>>> 07/02/16, 21:30, Vesa Solonen kirjoitti:
>>>> When "Filter footprint list by library" is selected only some of the
>>>> libraries actually show a parts list even though the library is not
>>>> empty. For testing I also created a new library with a single footprint
>>>> and added it via wizard to the footprint library table, but even that
>>>> does not work.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas for debugging?
>>>>
>>>> -Vesa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Application: kicad
>>>> Version: 0.201602030916+6535~42~ubuntu14.04.1-product release build
>>>> wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC
>>>> 4.8.4,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
>>>> Platform: Linux 3.16.0-60-lowlatency x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
>>>> Boost version: 1.54.0
>>>>          USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>>>>          USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>>>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>>>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>>>>          KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>>>>          USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
>>>>          BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>>>>
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