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From: "Chris Fisichella (christopher DOT j DOT fisichella AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-help AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 15:52:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] Re: No board window in pcb
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Hi DJ,

It's nice to hear from you. It has been a while. I gave up, and just
selected file->open and opened my board file and it came in at a 3D
angle. So, I quit the whole thing and executed
pcb board.pcb
again, and I got blue cross hairs. Hey, I thought, this is looking
good. So, I selected File->Open and opened board.pcb, and I can see my
board.

So, call it a little bit of user error and a little bit of program
anomaly, I think I am on to the next challenge.

I was a little loose about saying tools on the bottom. It has a status
display. I did not want you to think the whole window was blank.

I'm using version 20140316 on Ubuntu 14 (I think).

Thank you for telling me about Window->Message Log. I should have seen that.

Best,
Chris

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 3:44 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> "Chris Fisichella (christopher DOT j DOT fisichella AT gmail DOT com) [via
>> I am working through the gEDA tutorial. gschem works, gsch2pcb works,
>> and when I started pcb, I noticed the "CAD" window was blank.
>
> CAD window?  You mean the main drawing window?
>
>> Everything else was there, the menu bars, the tools on the left, and
>> the tools on the bottom.
>
> pcb doesn't have tools on the bottom, just on the left (see the image on
> the left side of http://pcb.geda-project.org/) and sometimes a toolbar
> under the menu bar.
>
> Include the Window->About version, too.
>
>> I cannot, however, find documentation on the log file for pcb. I
>> checked in ~/.gEDA, and did not find anything. Do any of you know how
>
> ~/.gEDA is for gschem et al; pcb prints to stdout or to the log window
> (Window->Message Log).
>
>> to troubleshoot what appears to be a pcb display issue?
>
> Posting a link to a screenshot might help, too.