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["Steven A. Falco" <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/15/19 9:21 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On 1/15/2019 8:51 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
>> I'll look at that.  The worst burst of backspaces is about 7 characters long, so I could accumulate 14 chars or so before making a decision.  In other words, run a circular buffer, and when I see the first non-backspace after a string of backspaces, then process the buffer.
>>
>> But I'm starting to think that the better approach is to drop this patch from the official tree, and just put my original patch into Fedora-only, as a temporary patch, to be removed when the library issue is corrected.
> 
> This may be the way to go as this is only temporary until the ng-spice
> library is fixed.  I'm assuming this issue is specific to Fedora.  If
> not, we can re-evaluate it at the time that it is broken on another
> platform.

I committed my original patch into the Fedora build system.  A new build will appear in rawhide in a day or two, and it will appear in Fedora 29 after a week or two, once the karma process runs its course.  Thus Fedora users can start enjoying ngspice soon.  I'll keep track of the ngspice library, and if a fix appears there, then I'll remove my patch.

I did take a stab at a new, efficient patch which addresses Seth's concern - but after studying the dynamics of the message passing, I don't think it really matters.  Messages always seem to break on carriage-return boundaries, so either patch will work without any loss of data.

I attached the new patch here so it won't get lost.  It behaves about the same as the earlier one, but it does print some extra '%' characters that are left over after the backspaces are processed.  Thus, I actually prefer the original patch, because it produces slightly cleaner output.

Nick - Do you want to put either version into the Copr builds?

	Steve

P.S. - This time, I tried to follow the coding style, as per Wayne's email. :-)

From d8888c9ccf62a0f38ef9b1f3a8be50bb1ac87dcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven A. Falco" <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:00:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Filter out backspaces from ngspice status lines.

The ngspice library can output "percent complete" status lines, and the
amount of status produced can exceed 1 megabyte.  Those lines contain
embedded backspaces, and don't print correctly.  Therefore, we filter
them to remove the backspaces and preceding characters.
---
 eeschema/sim/sim_plot_frame.cpp | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/eeschema/sim/sim_plot_frame.cpp b/eeschema/sim/sim_plot_frame.cpp
index 3812d0c3b..74d0d1d6e 100644
--- a/eeschema/sim/sim_plot_frame.cpp
+++ b/eeschema/sim/sim_plot_frame.cpp
@@ -1282,7 +1282,25 @@ void SIM_PLOT_FRAME::onSimUpdate( wxCommandEvent& aEvent )
 
 void SIM_PLOT_FRAME::onSimReport( wxCommandEvent& aEvent )
 {
-    m_simConsole->AppendText( aEvent.GetString() + "\n" );
+    wxString t = aEvent.GetString();
+    wxString buffer = "";
+
+    for( wxString::iterator it = t.begin(); it != t.end(); ++it )
+    {
+        if( *it != '\b' )
+        {
+            // Not a backspace; store it in the buffer.
+            buffer += *it;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // Backspace; toss the last character in the buffer (if any), and
+            // toss the backspace.
+            buffer.RemoveLast();
+        }
+    }
+
+    m_simConsole->AppendText( buffer + "\n" );
     m_simConsole->SetInsertionPointEnd();
 }
 
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