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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

Did you get my reply about this patch?  I haven't seen a response.  I am
interested in allowing spaces in the lib nicknames but your patch caused
issues when loading the cache lib.  Are you planning on fixing this?  If
so, any idea when?  I would like to get this in to v5 if possible.
Otherwise, the patch wont mean anything once the new file formats are
complete.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 1/26/2018 3:00 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Wayne-
> 
> Would you object to a patch like the attached?  It reads the name line
> in reverse order, allowing spaces in the component name.  If this is an
> acceptable approach, I'll make the other required internal changes.
> 
> -Seth
> 
> 2018-01-26 10:22 GMT-08:00 Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     On 26/01/18 19:18, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>     > On 1/26/2018 1:01 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >> Why are space characters not allowed in the SCH library nicknames, but
>     >> are OK for the FP libraries? Is this an overlook on SCH/PCB side?
>     >>
>     >> I'd like to disable the space check in eeschema, it's very annoying if
>     >> the library file names contain spaces.
>     >>
>     >> Regards,
>     >> Tom
>     >
>     > For the same reason you can have spaces in symbol names, library symbol
>     > names are not quoted in the schematic file format.  If you can figure
>     > out a way to fix this without changing the schematic file format and
>     > breaking anything, then I'm ok with that.  The new schematic file format
>     > will use quoted strings for symbol library links (which will only be for
>     > reverting or updating since symbols will be embedded in the schematic)
>     > so I will remove this restriction once the new file formats are in play.
>     >
> 
>     Hi Wayne,
> 
>     Now I understand the reason for not allowing spaces. What about the
>     slashes?
> 
>     Tom
> 
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