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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks! :)  I knew this was going to be a PITA before I started.  I just
didn't think it was going to be this big of a PITA.  It has to be done
if we have any hope of moving the schematic editor forward.  I'll get
there eventually.

On 5/2/2016 2:24 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> I'll send you a big bag to collect all that yak hair.
> 
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 02:14:58PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> After several more false starts trying to design a unified SCHEMATIC
>> object, I've finally figured out the thorn in my side.  There is a
>> circular dependency between SCH_SHEET::Load( SCH_EDIT_FRAME* aFrame )
>> and SCH_EDIT_FRAME::LoadOneEEFile() which I was tripping over every
>> time.  The only way around this road block is to write the schematic I/O
>> manager and legacy schematic plugin first, rip out the SCH_ITEM load
>> code along with the circular dependency, and then write the unified
>> SCHEMATIC object.  This effectively doubled the amount of effort it will
>> take to complete this task.  I have the I/O manager object complete and
>> I'm about 20% done with the legacy schematic plugin parser code.
>> Hopefully I'll finish this up by the end of May for general testing.
>> Once this is stable, I'll finish implementing the legacy schematic
>> output formatter and legacy component library parser and output
>> formatter code.  Once that's done I'll be able to get back to work on
>> the refactor work.  Sorry about the delays.  Sigh!!!!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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