gnupic: Re: [gnupic] Gpsim and invisible nodes
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] Gpsim and invisible nodes
From:
Robert Pearce ####@####.####
Date:
4 Jun 2008 08:16:42 -0000
Message-Id: <20080604083132.73f04970.rob@bdt-home.demon.co.uk>
Hi Phil,
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:40:21 +1000 you wrote:
> Thank you for reading this.
>
> If I connect, say, a single switch to a port pin then the connection is
> visible, as it should be. However, adding further nodes causes all nodes to
> become invisible. Is this another gtk-extra bug and is a patch available to
> fix it?
>
Invisible in what sense? Do you mean the black lines on the breadboard vanish? If so, this is merely a very long-standing quirk of the breadboard (which is STILL marked as being in development and untrusted). The "trace all" button will restore most, but not always all, until you change something else. The connections still exist, though; it's only the black lines that vanish.
To be honest, I think the developers[1] have been treating this as very low priority, since the breadboard is not actually that useful. Indeed, I tend to leave it on another virtual screen and only switch to it very occasionally.
> I've added two patches to gtk-extra that were designed to prevent Gpsim
> crashing but I haven't found any mention of any further patches.
>
There's been some development going on in SVN recently, but not on the breadboard. We don't tend to announce patches - if somebody submits one via this list then you might see it, otherwise you need to check the bug tracker (which is often out of date on status so read the comments) or the SVN log.
Also, GPSim questions are often best directed to the GPSim mailing list rather than this more general PIC list.
Cheers,
Rob
[1] I'm not counting myself here, since I really don't get involved in the GUI side of things.
