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Re: Additional parameters on simulation dialog
I can see the attachment in my email client (gmail android app).
man. 19. aug. 2019 15.03 skrev Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Sylwester,
>
> Either your patch was removed by the launchpad moderation system or you
> forgot to attach it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 8/18/19 4:11 PM, Sylwester Kocjan wrote:
> > Hi Wayne & KiCad devs, I made some progress with simulation
> changes (see the attached patch). I fixed your findings (hopefully this is
> what you intended) and made further changes. Currently it is possible to
> set initial condition for capacitors and inductors in DIALOG_SPICE_MODEL.
> At the same time I found a bug, I think fixing would require some
> architectural changes: 1. User adds initial condition to the element ->
> additional field "Spice_IC" is saved in component. 2. User opens
> SPICE options for component and removes initial condition. 3. In
> DIALOG_SPICE_MODEL::TransferDa IC field from instance of
> DIALOG_EDIT_COMPONENT_IN_SCHEM will be cleared. 4.
> DIALOG_EDIT_COMPONENT_IN_SCHEM wants to remove a row from wxGrid based on
> different number of elements in DIALOG_EDIT_COMPONENT_IN_SCHEM 5. Before
> this happen, grid wants to be updated and calls
> FIELDS_GRID_TABLE<T>::GetValue for a row that is going to be deleted
> -> wxCHECK( aRow < GetNumberRows(), wxEmptyString ) fails. This
> issue is reproducible in 100% cases on my machine with Linux and I think
> that something similar can occur with DIALOG_EDIT_COMPONENT_IN_LIBRA
> Best regards, Sylwester
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dnia 27 czerwca 2019 21:04 Wayne Stambaugh &
> lt;stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Sylwester,
> >
> > I took a look at your repo and I have a few comments on your changes.
> I
> > did not test it so there may be functional issues as well.
> >
> > Please simplify your logic in
> > DIALOG_SIM_SETTINGS::TransferD It's way more complicated
> > than it needs to be.
> >
> > Get rid of DIALOG_SIM_SETTINGS::disableCt and use the
> > appropriate wxUpdateUIEvent[1] handler to enable and/or disable any
> > controls. Manually doing this will almost certainly lead to broken
> > control states. We have done this poorly so many times in the past
> that
> > I am not allowing it in new code.
> >
> > If you want to submit your changes for consideration, you should squash
> > you changes into a single patch and submit the output of `git
> > format-patch` to the mailing list.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > [1]:
> > docs.wxwidgets.org docs.wxwidgets.org
> >
> > On 6/21/19 3:00 PM, Sylwester Kocjan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I prepared some changes in KiCad simulation dialog. They are about
> > additional simulation parameters. According to tutorial, which I've
> > found on website, I store them on GitHub repository in branch
> > "Sim_InitialConditions_SK" here:
> >
> > github.com github.com
> >
> > Could you please have a look and do some review if possible? I'd be
> > grateful for feedback if these changes are OK. In future I'd like
> to
> > implement OP analysis using some controls I've added
> > ( bugs.launchpad.net bugs.launchpad.net
> >
> > Additionally I also prepared polish translation for new strings.
> >
> > My aim was to make simulation with arbitrary initial conditions
> > possible (additionally I added other options). Right now it is possible
> > to enable checkbox UIC on TRAN tab, but there is no possibility to set
> > IC to any arbitrary value in element properties. I'm afraid it will
> > involve change in .sch format. Please take note that it is also
> > possible to define initial conditions for entire nodes instead of
> > capacitors or inductors (for example: ".ic v(11)=5 v(4)=-5
> v(2)=2.2",
> > see ngspice manual, chapter 15.2.2). It is also a challenge.
> >
> > So in current state we can use for initial conditions results of .OP
> > analysis or default zero.
> >
> > From my point of view these are the topics, which should be taken into
> > account during review:
> > - in simulation code sometimes there is used '\n', sometimes
> "\r\n".
> > Maybe it should be unified? Is there a common definition for newline in
> > wxWidgets?
> > - I added .option savecurrents: someone added TODO that it doesn't
> > work. Maybe should we hide this control?
> > - something happened to colours on dialog windows, see attached image.
> > I don't know what is it and how to fix it. seems to be unrelated to
> my
> > changes, but maybe I'm wrong? (this is visible on Ubuntu 18.04)
> > - some feedback regarding how to add IC field to capacitors, inductors
> > or nodes will be very appreciated ;)
> >
> > Limitations of my changes:
> > - parsing SPICE .options is not implemented (in bool
> > DIALOG_SIM_SETTINGS::parseComm const wxString& aCommand ))
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Sylwek
> >
> >
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