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On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 06:22 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

> When I hit "o", a via and a pin of a connector are highlighted in 
> orange.

I can remember having similar problems for a board with 1000 elements, I
have wasted more than one hour total finding the shorts. No problem for
me, but maybe a reason for first time users to stop using pcb.

It was my hope that there was a smart way finding such an error
instantly. Is it not?

So it is really bad that we can hide the log window missing these errors
when we do "optimize" many times. When we then discover the problem, it
is too late to really see it at once.

The 'divide and conquer' method suggested by gene glick (or going back
to a saved backup) is unknown for most windows kids -- I know this when
they ask in forums about programming or other problems... The are not
able to isolate problems.

So when we still want a larger user base...

PS:

Since yesterday we finally have pcb-20110918 in Gentoo_Linux.

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