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[Russell Oliver <roliver8143@xxxxxxxxx>]

I second Bernhard's comments.
I think it shouldn't seem like a separate program, just another dialog of
eeschema that takes the what you see is what you get approach.
As long as the footprint references are valid the schematic should be
updated when the dialog is closed, and marked modified if there was a
change.
Saving the schematic to file is then done through eeschema proper.

Russell

On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 04:40 Bernhard Stegmaier, <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Just my 2 cents…
> I would immediately write back any change in cvpcb to schematic.
> I never understood why I have to hit the button to do that.
> There is no PCB preview or something like that in cvpcb, so I have to
> apply all changes anyway to check them directly in the PCB.
> Then, keep the button and save schematic with it.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> On 20. Mar 2018, at 18:28, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why don't you like the idea of saving the schematic when you hit the save
> button? That seems like a reasonable expected behavior to me at least.
>
> (I dislike nag dialogs especially when they seem to have no purpose)
>
> -Jon
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> CvPcb has a Save command (complete with disk icon).  Only it doesn’t do
>> that.  (It simply writes the changes back to eeschema.)
>>
>> If it were a dialog, I’d say that’s not good.  But this is CvPcb, where
>> you could easily spend an hour making associations (hitting save every few
>> minutes), only to have your machine and/or Kicad go down with all your
>> changes.  That’s borderline horrific.
>>
>> I don’t like the idea of blind-saving the eeschema document, but I think
>> that would be better than what we have now.
>>
>> Another idea would be to trigger an auto-save for each CvPcb save.  It’s
>> not ideal because the user may think that there aren’t any changes in their
>> eeschema file and therefore ignore the auto-save warning when restarting.
>>
>> Yet another idea would be to foist the decision on the user with a “Save
>> your schematic?” dialog every time you save in CvPcb.  That’s pretty hard
>> to love, but with Orson’s new KIDIALOG we could at least have a “don’t ask
>> me again” checkbox.  Maybe that’s not so bad….
>>
>> Thoughts?
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