eeschema - "update pcb from schematic" does nothing

[Dino Ghilardi]

tested on commit 2dd5757eb5abc21183d385992c8186bac27326e3

Pressing F8 in eeschema has no effect.
Using tools->update pcb from schematic neither.

Calling that function from pcbnew works.

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Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.1.0-676-g2dd5757eb), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.2
    libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2r zlib/1.2.8 libidn2/0.16 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libidn2/0.16) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.18.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.69.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
    Curl: 7.52.1
    Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 with C++ ABI 1010

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=ON
    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

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Now I'm recompiling a clean build, to see if the problem persists.

[Dino Ghilardi (dino-ghilardi)]

Also on a clean build the problem persists.

[Dino Ghilardi (dino-ghilardi)]

If you open powerpcb, "update pcb from schematic" works in eeschema.

If you close powerpcb the problem returns.

It seems that the problem is that now using "update pcb from schematics" does not open automatically powerpcb as it did in previous versions.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision 924736c6f378d4cca74a954e461835b3fdd796de
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=924736c6f378d4cca74a954e461835b3fdd796de

[Dino Ghilardi (dino-ghilardi)]

Now pressing F8 in eeschema (update pcb from schematic) when powerpcb is not open it opens it but with an empty pcb, it does not open the yet existing file. trying to save it the default name is "noname". It seems powerpcb is launched without the project board filename.

If powerpcb is running with the board loaded it updates it correctly.

Tested In commit 40382f4d52d9fb9be9ed850a17a5f8fe277472ad

Cheers, Dino.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Ha! I of course tested it on my sample project which has not board defined, so it did exactly what I expected. ;)

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision 94c8e84d3ba1f1d9a5223a02f8a1ac2c75c1b514
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=94c8e84d3ba1f1d9a5223a02f8a1ac2c75c1b514