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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Find rat lines
From: Peter Clifton <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:19:00 +0000
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On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 22:04 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:33:05PM +0100, Levente Kovacs wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 
> > I experience that in recent PCB (git HEAD) pressing the F key doesn't
> > highlight the unrouted rat lines.
> > 
> > Does anyone else experience this?
> 
> Yes, this is commit 764c3560a722c768a7048f5c70811ec363862882 
> from Peter Clifton.


Yes - a deliberate change, and one which I'm going to review, as it does
affect this usage to discover rat connections. There may be a better
compromise than reverting the previous behaviour.


> I'm not really sure that this is a good idea. From teh log
> message, this caused a mistake in a board of the patch's author.

User-error (by me) caused the mistake, but the connectivity scan in PCB
was not very helpful in discovering the problem!


> However, why not do like the lesstif HID and put the number of rats
> line left in the status line? Or why not use a different color for
> highlighting rats and copper when pressing the F key.

That would not solve the issue. The problem I was trying to deal with
relates to misleading output when hitting "F" on some copper belonging
to a net which contains a short to a different net.)

The "F" tool would proclaim that completely isolated copper areas were
connected. Our short-handling is not very good at the moment!



I'll aim to have this fixed in a more agreeable fashion before our next
release.


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Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk>

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