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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] errors in git gschem
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On Fri, 28 May 2021, Roland Lutz wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2021, karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> Now, theese sets of messages comes as a group when e.g. moving the
>> mouse pointer from outside to the inside of the gschem window and
>> reverse, but not if I first click in e.g. the message window.
>> 
>> Ditto, switching virtual displays, virtual terminal, and when
>> clicking inside various parts of gschem like alternativly
>> clicking in docks and main (canvas) window.
>
> This looks like the messages appear whenever the page is rendered, which 
> would indicate that the invalid objects are part of the page (as opposed 
> to some invalid intermediate state while loading/closing the page).

I can't say for sure with the information I have, but the most probable 
cause for this seems to be an invalid fill type field in a file.  I pushed 
a patch which adds a check for line and fill types.  You should now see a 
message in the status window whenever gschem occurs an invalid value.