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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

sure, KiCad is not resposible of third party plugins, but since this
particular one is very popular amongst users I thought I should send the
heads up to the list if it helps preventing user rants, because it didn't
work with a deb package from JS's repository. Once the repo gets the config
switches right it should work perfect.

Thanks!

Marcos


On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:47 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Marcos,
>
> KiCad is not responsible for third party python plugins.  My guess is
> the script in question loads wxPython build against a different version
> of gtk than wxPython.  Loading gtk2 and gtk3 in the same application
> will cause pcbnew to crash.  If look carefully at the KiCad build info,
> you will notice wxPython support is disable
> (KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF) so you cannot run any python script that
> calls wx with this build.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 2/8/19 2:43 PM, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
> > Hi, I'm failing to find this issue in the bug tracker, so please let me
> > know if its already reported. If not I can report it.
> >
> > Every time I launch pcbnew with a plugin in /home/marcos/.kicad_plugins/
> > it immediately crashes. It starts normally if I remove .kicad_plugins.
> > This is the plugin that makes it
> > crash: https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom, its quite
> > a popular one.
> >
> > I'm running ubuntu 18.04 (actually, its a https://neon.kde.org/) so its
> > using gtk3 afaik.
> >
> > Application: kicad
> > Version: 5.1.0-rc1-unknown-5072298~84~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
> > Libraries:
> >     wxWidgets 3.0.4
> >     libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4
> > libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
> > Platform: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> > Build Info:
> >     wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+
> 2.24
> >     Boost: 1.65.1
> >     OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
> >     Curl: 7.58.0
> >     Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011
> >
> > Build settings:
> >     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
> >     USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
> >     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
> >     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> >     KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
> >     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
> >     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
> >     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
> >     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> >     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
> >     KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
> >     KICAD_SPICE=ON
> >
> > This has been happening for quite a while, but I don't know how to dig
> > deeper into the issue.
> >
> > Marcos
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 4:49 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2/7/2019 2:28 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> >     > On 2/7/19 2:11 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >     >> On 2/7/2019 1:38 PM, Vesa Solonen wrote:
> >     >>> Steven A. Falco kirjoitti 7.2.2019 klo 18.04:
> >     >>>
> >     >>>> However, because of the eeschema line-width issues that I
> >     mentioned yesterday, I'm not convinced that users will be happy with
> >     gtk3.
> >     >>>>
> >     >>>> In the attached screenshot, compare the line width at pin 2 and
> >     pin 3 of the op-amp.
> >     >>>
> >     >>> Hi Steve,
> >     >>>
> >     >>> This is not gtk3 specific, but comes from the rounding issues in
> >     >>> Eeschema new drawing code (both OpenGL and Cairo). Unfortunately
> >     proper
> >     >>> solutions are not trivial. One can mask it bearably by using
> Cairo
> >     >>> drawing with anti-aliasing turned on (at least on 4k
> resolutions).
> >     >>>
> >     >>> -Vesa
> >     >>>
> >     >>
> >     >> This problem will get fixed during v6 development.  The other
> >     option is
> >     >> to build with wxWidgets with gtk2 and disable wxPython support.
> >     There
> >     >> is no ideal solution at the moment.  This is the reason that we
> even
> >     >> created a 5.1 release.  I think users would rather have the
> slightly
> >     >> distorted graphics (which Vesa's suggest improves) than no
> >     wxPython support.
> >     >
> >     > Well, based on my test of the nighlies (built with gtk2), I don't
> >     think gtk2 will help.  I attached three screen shots - the titles
> >     should be self-explanatory.  You can see the distortion even in the
> >     gtk2 nightlies.
> >     >
> >     >       Steve
> >
> >     The legacy canvas is still available with gtk2 builds so you don't
> have
> >     to use the modern canvas should you choose not to do so.  The legacy
> >     canvas is disabled in gtk3 builds because it is completely broken.
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
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