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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

“Just saving in .dcm file” was how I meant it to work, but it is indeed buggy.  Fixes on the way….

> On 21 Nov 2018, at 18:46, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 11/21/2018 1:17 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>> On 21/11/2018 18:38, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>> Version 5.0.x (and version 4.0.x) gave us the option to store the
>>>> datasheets for both
>>>> aliases and main symbols in the dcm file.
>>> Right; that hasn’t changed.  What’s changed (or should have changed)
>>> is that the above is the *only* option.
>>> 
>>> So is it not OK for that to be the only option, or is it just not
>>> working that way?
>>> 
>>> (Sorry for not testing it myself, but I’m knee-deep in the
>>> paste-symbol-twice-revert crash bug.)
>> 
>> We just need a way to set the datasheet stuff in the dcm file for non
>> aliases. Right now there is only one input field that stores it in the
>> lib file.
>> 
>> One option that comes to mind is that the current layout of one entry
>> field is kept. But that there is some setting that controls if it is
>> stored in the dcm or lib file. (If we simply say that the current entry
>> field saves to the dcm file someone who currently uses only the lib file
>> field will be unhappy.)
>> 
> 
> This is the subtle issue here.  If you created a symbol with no aliases,
> no root description, and no root keywords then it might be prudent to
> save the datasheet text in the datasheet field in the library file which
> would result in an empty dcm file.  Any other condition should result in
> the root symbol datasheet text being saved in the dcm file.  My
> preference would be to just save it in the dcm file since this will be
> the only option when the new symbol file format is implemented.
> 
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