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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 29/03/2018 à 19:00, Seth Hillbrand a écrit :
> Hi JP-
> 
> That's correct, A.sch does not get modified.  Only the contents shown are changed.
> 
> Here is a video showing the behavior:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LnG2khusuEal3E2I8-NPEZ-A9dA_ag8O/view?usp=sharing
> 
> If you don't see the same behavior, perhaps this is linux-only?
> 
> -S
> 

After tests, I confirm:
It happens on Linux, but not on Windows.
Really strange.


> 2018-03-29 9:23 GMT-07:00 jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     Le 29/03/2018 à 18:04, Seth Hillbrand a écrit :
>     > Thanks for the feedback.  It helps me get my head around how the subsheets are meant to work.
>     >
>     > Here is one of the bugs:
>     >
>     > 1) Take the attached project and unzip into KiCad.  
>     > 2) Open the schematic and you will find a schematic with 5 subsheets referencing 3 subsheet files.
>     >   - Each subsheet file has a label with its associated file name.  So A.sch contains "A".
>     > 3) Rename the file for Sheet B to "A.sch"
>     >   - This works as expected for linking.  There is a warning, you replace the contents of B with the
>     > contents A.sch.
>     > 4) Rename the file for Sheet B again, this time to "D.sch"
>     >   - You get a warning about the sheet using shared data in a complex hierarchy.  Click "OK"
>     >
>     > At this point, Eeschema creates "D.sch" using the data from "A.sch".  If I understand Wayne
>     > correctly, the mixing of these metaphors is fine.  Renaming a sheet filename to an existing filename
>     > replaces the sheet's current contents with the existing file contents but renaming a sheet filename
>     > to a non-existing filename will create a new copy of the current contents.
>     >
>     > 5) Now, open the subsheet "B", notice that it has the label "A".  Edit the contents to be "D" and save.
>     >
>     > The bug here is that if you now open the original subsheet A, its contents have also been changed to
>     > "D".  But only until you close and re-open the project.  At that point, it is back to "A".  I'll
>     > deal with this bug but leave the copying/linking behavior as is unless people feel otherwise.  It
>     > confused me but I think I can clarify it in the dialog text.
>     >
>     > -S
> 
>     Hi Seth,
> 
>     I tried that, and I did not noticed your issue.
>     All sheets are OK, and the subsheet A.sch was not modified.
> 
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