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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

Urgh, patch attached here.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Oliver Walters <
oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have amended the patch to only ignore connection of pins that are both
> INVISIBLE and NC (Electrical Type = Not Connected). This will improve the
> safety of the current libraries which do contain many parts with NC pins
> set as invisible.
>
> It will also NOT change the behaviour of people using invisible pins for
> one-to-many connection.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Oliver Walters <
> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The attached patch prevents invisible pins from being connected using the
>> wire tool in eeschema.
>>
>> a) If you connect a wire endpoint to the same position as a pin endpoint,
>> they are NOT connected visually
>> b) Wires and insivible pins are also ignored during netlist creation
>> c) This does not affect the ability of invisible power-pins to
>> automatically connect to global power labels
>>
>> Is the current behavior of connecting invisible pins to wire endpoints
>> desired? Or is it just an aberration?
>>
>> If there is a very good reason that pins not visible in the schematic are
>> able to be connected silently?
>>
>> before: http://i.imgur.com/3gModvW.png
>>
>> after: http://i.imgur.com/r8O7c3Y.png
>>
>> (Note the 'dangling' wire-end indication)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>>
>

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