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Re: Loaded Eagle library always cleared after loading since rev a3fc0ef

 

Hi Jean-Pierre,

Thank you for the notice. I checked the code, and I think your proposal
is valid. I have already pushed a patch to fix the problem.

Regards,
Orson

On 09/07/2017 09:04 AM, jp charras wrote:
> Hi Orson,
> 
> Could you have a look into your commit a3fc0ef658db69d601f7c91e41c91f43880c1ab0?
> 
> It fixes a memory leak by adding and calling deleteTemplates() which delete the footprint list in
> memory.
> 
> However, because it is called each time EAGLE_PLUGIN::init is called, the loaded library is in fact
> cleared as soon as you want to load a footprint (for instance in footprint viewer)
> 
> My opinion is deleteTemplates() should not be called inside init(), but I am not very familiar with
> the Eagle plugin code, so I let you to fix this issue.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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