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Re: Schematic I/O plugin.

 

just FYI this affects osx whether the -DUSE...SCH_IO... is ON or OFF

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/6/2016 11:35 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
>> hey wayne,
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/EVgdXHuf on osx
>
> Thanks Simon.  I look at it in the morning.  It looks like an issue with
> wxString yet again.
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 7/6/2016 11:10 AM, jp charras wrote:
>>>> Le 06/07/2016 à 15:53, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>>>>> On 7/6/2016 8:01 AM, jp charras wrote:
>>>>>> Le 06/07/2016 à 11:23, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>>>>>>> I just committed the initial schematic I/O plugin code.  It only
>>>>>>> supports the schematic file parsing at the moment but soon it should
>>>>>>> support schematic output formatting.  Symbol library loading and saving
>>>>>>> will follow shortly there after.  By default, the new is built but it is
>>>>>>> not used.  The current code is used in the default build config.  I
>>>>>>> created a new build config option USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER to enable using the
>>>>>>> plugin.  Set -DUSE_SCH_IO_MANAGER=ON in your config to enable it.  I've
>>>>>>> been using round tripping (parse the file with the new parser and saving
>>>>>>> to a new file with the current formatter and comparing the result) to
>>>>>>> test the parser and I get identical files for every schematic except for
>>>>>>> the interf_u demo (see below) so I feel pretty good about it's
>>>>>>> stability.  You also get the added benefit of knowing where in the file
>>>>>>> a parser error occurs.  One major difference is that if a parse error
>>>>>>> occurs, the schematic will not continue to load the schematic.  I never
>>>>>>> really liked that design in current parser.  The current parser is
>>>>>>> syntactically very loose.  I wrote the new parser to be much more strict
>>>>>>> so there coud be some issues on older schematics.  I tested some demo
>>>>>>> schematic files from product branch r800 and they parsed fine but I'm
>>>>>>> sure there will be a few that do not.  I would appreciate help from the
>>>>>>> devs with testing this.  Particularly if you have any really old
>>>>>>> schematic files laying around.  If you find any that fail, please send
>>>>>>> them to me so I can fix the parser.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For some reason, either the current parser or the output formatter for
>>>>>>> the BITMAP object is broken.  At first I thought it was my new parser
>>>>>>> but I tested the existing code and the bug is there as well.  You can
>>>>>>> test this by opening eeschema in the stand alone mode, open the
>>>>>>> interf_u.sch file, save the file to a new name, and do a diff between
>>>>>>> the two files and you will see that the last byte of the bitmap data has
>>>>>>> changed.  This also happens in the stable release.  I couldn't see any
>>>>>>> visible difference in the bitmaps but it's still a bit odd and should be
>>>>>>> fixed at some point.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Package devs, please continue to build packages as you currently do.
>>>>>>> Once the new plugin code is complete and tested, I will make it the
>>>>>>> default config.  Many thanks in advance for the help.  Hopefully it's
>>>>>>> not too buggy. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good work Wayne!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you compiling Kicad in debug mode?
>>>>>> In release mode there is a repetitive issue in sch_legacy_plugin.cpp:
>>>>>> for instance in ::loadWire() you are using:
>>>>>>     wxASSERT( strCompare( "Wire", line, &line ) );
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It works certainly fine in debug mode, but in release mode
>>>>>> strCompare( "Wire", line, &line )
>>>>>> is never executed (not compiled) at least on W7 32 bits, but I am thinking this is not platform
>>>>>> dependent.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a "invalid wire definition" error is shown and Eeschema crashes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry,
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just committed the fix for this.  Please test it when you get a chance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> It works now in release mode.
>>>>
>>>> However, like previously, Eeschema crashes when something incorrect is encountered in a sch file,
>>>> after the error message is displayed.
>>>>
>>>> Also, (very) old .sch files are not read.
>>>> Attached a very old file (I have older files).
>>>>
>>>> The reason is the fact the plugin expects too many parameters for texts (or fields)
>>>> Old files do not have as many parameters (justification, style) as now.
>>>> For the legacy plugin, these parameters must be considered optional.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the file to test.  I expected that there would be some old
>>> files that would be problematic.  I'll take a look at this tomorrow.
>>>
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