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Re: Should SCH_COMPONENT::m_convert default to 1?

 

Jon,

I don't think setting m_Convert to 1 is the correct solution unless the
part actually has a convert.  According to the Doxygen comment:


On 3/23/2019 9:08 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> For context, I've been looking at the issues in this forum
> thread: https://forum.kicad.info/t/before-giving-up-on-kicad-one-last-attempt-erc-misery/15933/63
> 
> I have already pushed a band-aid fix to "repair" these situations, but
> it looks like they are being caused by the EAGLE importer (or at least
> that is one path to this situation coming up)
> 
> Specifically, it looks like m_convert is set to 0 in
> SCH_COMPONENT::Init(), but this value is not valid (it should be at
> least 1 for components).
> 
> Are there any cases that I am missing, where it makes sense for a
> component to have m_convert set to 0?  If not, it's an easy fix in that
> Init() to set it to 1.  If so, we can just update the SCH_EAGLE_PLUGIN
> to call SetConvert() wherever it creates new components.
> 
> -Jon
> 
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