KiCad blocked in an infinite loop when using "/" in a footprint name
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When creating a new footprint in the footprint editor, I copied the component name from the supplier's data sheet into the value-field of the grid in the footprint properties (see also attached screenshot). This value contained a forward-slash "/".
Next a warning dialog popped up telling me that some specific characters should not be used.
When clicking on the "ok"-button of this warning-dialog, the dialog closes, and immediately pops up again with the same message. The only solution to get out of this infinite loop, was to force-quit the KiCad process on OS-level (resulting in the loss of all unsaved work).
Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-0), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.7.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (UTF-8,STL containers,
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.51.0
Compiler: Clang 8.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Changed in kicad: | |
milestone: | none → 5.1.2 |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
@Nick, do you have a 5.1.1 build? I can't reproduce this in 6.0, and I suspect it might already be fixed in 5.1.1 too.