Crashing when trying to create a wire/trace in PCB mode
I created a simple circuit with a battery, an NPN transistor, and a couple resistors. In PCB mode, if I click on a connection point and drag the trace, most of the time is fine, only sometimes it crashes. But if I click on a point and release the mouse, it crashes almost always.
I was able to duplicate this all the time and I wanted to send you the file, however at the last crash the XML became truncated and the .fz file became of size 0.
I am using Windows XP.
Thanks for helping.
Hi Merlin,
Sorry for the crash, and thanks for letting us know. I've managed to duplicate the problem once in several attempts, but I don't yet have a recipe for making it happen regularly.
When you say "click on a point and release the mouse" do you mean click without dragging? Is it a bendpoint on a trace, or where the trace connects to a part? Are there any other steps you can remember that make the crash more likely to happen?
Thanks.
- j
Looks like I've found a recipe to reproduce a bug--is this the one you're experiencing? It seems to have to do with dragging the end of a trace so that it becomes disconnected from a part connector (and disappears), and then immediately clicking on that part connector. If you don't click fast enough, there's no crash.
- j
Hi Merlin,
I think I see the bug: you can cause a crash if you drag out a wire from a connector directly back to the same connector. And this could happen with a click-drag-click on the same connector. The speed thing was a red herring. We'll try to release an update in the next few days.
Thanks for your patience.
Cheers,
- j
I think the last description sounds right: I probably clicked, moved the mouse a bit and release the button. Thanks a lot for looking into it.
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