kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Ben Hest <bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Having been working on the digikey-kicad-library lately, there's plenty of
MFG PNs with commas, spaces, periods, various slashery, octothorps,
parenthesis, semicolons, colons, asterisks, underscores, dollar signs,
equal signs, ampersands.  It's a pain in the behind to do substitutions.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 02:04:17PM +0000, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > On 12/28/2017 06:25 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
> > > On Nov 18, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Diego,
> > >>
> > >> Thank you for the offer but I'm already working on it.  It is not as
> > >> easy to fix as it would seem.  The problem is what to do when you do
> not
> > >> have write access to the library with the invalid characters.  I have
> a
> > >> few ideas but it will take me a while to get it the way I want it.
> > >
> > > Hi, Wayne,
> > >
> > > I just ran into this problem. (I’m using the Dec 24 nightly on a High
> > > Sierra Mac.) The thing is that my libraries are in a directory to which
> > > Kicad should have write access. On my Mac, they’re at
> > > ~/Library/Application Support/kicad/library
> > >
> > > The three parts in my library that use a forward-slash in the name are
> > > new for a design I am still working on, so renaming them in the library
> > > and then replacing the components on the schematic from the library
> > > isn’t too painful. That said: should “policy” going forward be to
> simply
> > > not have slashes in part names? I guess this is probably wise, since as
> > > I understand it, the .sweet format will be like .pretty with one symbol
> > > per file and the file’s name is the symbol name.
> > >
> > > -a
> >
> > In the short term, we will have to disallow the '/' character in symbol
> > names just like we do in footprint names.  This was done with footprint
> > names because the file name is the footprint name and '/' is a path
> > separator.  I may change this during version 6 development by using the
> > internal symbol/footprint name ( there is support for this in footprint
> > file format) rather than the file name and escape the '/' and ':'
> > characters so that any character >=0x20 should be valid in symbol and
> > footprint names.  This change will not be backwards compatible but I
> > think it's a better solution than what we are currently doing.
>
> This would make me SO happy. There are lots of parts whose actual part
> numbers use naughty characters, and it's just ugly to have to make
> substitutions manually.
>
> By the way, are we doing anything about special file names (mostly a
> Windows issue)? These can be problematic even with extensions added.
> What if I tried to create a part named PRN?
>
> >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On 11/18/2017 08:00 AM, Diego Herranz wrote:
> > >>> Thanks. I'll chase that bug.
> > >>>
> > >>> Diego
> > >>>
> > >>> On 18 Nov 2017 11:35 am, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> > >>> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>    See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236
> > >>>    <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236>
> > >>>
> > >>>    2017-11-18 11:42 GMT+01:00 Diego Herranz
> > >>>    <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>> <mailto:diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:dieg
> oherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> > >>>
> > >>>        Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>>        I'm testing a recent build (41f9c19b) on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits.
> > >>>
> > >>>        When opening a schematic made with a nightly build ~2 months
> > >>>        old, the remapping dialog shows up. So far so good.
> > >>>
> > >>>        I've followed the recommendations
> > >>>        in http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/
> > >>>        <http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/> and most things
> > >>>        seem to be working fine. Every symbol gets remapped but 2.
> Both
> > >>>        of which include '/' in their name
> (e.g. PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT).
> > >>>
> > >>>        Opening the schematic after the remap, it seems Kicad has
> > >>>        changed it to PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT.
> > >>>
> > >>>        In fact, after a bit more searching, I've found out that as
> soon
> > >>>        as the remapping dialog shows up, before clicking on "Remap
> > >>>        symbols" the '/' characters have been replaced to '_'. So I'm
> > >>>        guessing that is the reason why it can't find the symbols when
> > >>>        remapping?
> > >>>        "Warning: No symbol 'PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT' found in symbol
> > >>>        library table." confirms that the name was changed before the
> > >>>        remapping attempt.
> > >>>
> > >>>        I have then tried to edit the broken symbols in Eeschema.
> When I
> > >>>        try to assign "PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT" again, which can be found
> > >>>        through the "Choose Symbol" dialog without problems, it
> complains:
> > >>>        " Symbol 'PIC32MX1XXFXXXD-I_PT' not found in library
> > >>>        'MCU_Microchip_PIC32'! "
> > >>>
> > >>>        Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug?
> > >>>
> > >>>        Many thanks,
> > >>>        Diego
> > >>>
> > >>>        _______________________________________________
> > >>>        Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > >>>        <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> > >>>        Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>> <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>        <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>        Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > >>>        <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> > >>>        More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
> > >>>        <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
> > >>>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > > Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
> > >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>



-- 

-Ben