Angle brackets in indeterminate string can be confusing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Low
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Jeff Young |
Bug Description
I am running KiCad V5.1.0 under windows 64bit professional. This has been tried on two very different PCs with the same result.
In Edit tab / Edit Text & Graphic Properties: If a line has been previously drawn on edge.cuts before this tab is selected, trying to set a new line width results in all lines on layer set to width = 0. Also applies to Dwgs.User layer and maybe other layers.
Edge cuts lines can still be selected individually with right click, but if co-sited with another line such as one on Dwgs.User layer it is very hard to select the (now) 0 width line. Turning off the Dwgs.user layer was the only way to grab the line.
When it is selected by using block command, message is provided "Line width cannot be 0". It can now be set to any required value, but changing in the Edit tab / Edit Text & Graphic Properties again to try to set all edge.cuts to (say) 0.05mm still sets it back to width 0.
As I could not get the change size to work I eventually settled for setting the graphic default to .05mm and re-drawing the outline as a work around, and that is fine as long as the setting remains as started.
The graphics setting tab is not covered in the supplied PCBnew Documentation as far as I can discover.
Build details:
Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Changed in kicad: | |
assignee: | nobody → Jeff Young (jeyjey) |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
milestone: | none → 6.0.0-rc1 |
summary: |
- Graphic line edit in PCBnew + Angle brackets in indeterminate string can be confusing |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in kicad: | |
milestone: | 6.0.0-rc1 → 5.1.1 |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I can't reproduce the issue of the width being set to 0, unless I clear that box, or write in 0.
This is a bug in itself (shouldn't be able to set 0).
Are you seeing an additional bug where the thickness is set to zero, even when you enter a non-zero width?