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On resistors and capacitors some attributes (like power, voltage rating) have a 
predefined list of legal values (like 2W or 630V).

It would be nice if these fields could hold arbitrary values.

In 3.0.4 Alpha the control points of curved traces are hidden, unlike hookup 
wire where you get the small blueish circles indicating where they are.

in few different flavors

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


Please use labels and text to provide additional information.

Beta 3.0.6 when run still displays 3.0.5 in the top bar, and lights the light 
indicating a download is available when there is no more recent version.

Select some objects, group them, right click, edit selection, get to group 
settings dialog with;

Alpha (slider) - "Adds" to the alpha of each object.
Name (string) - For when you want your group to show up on the BOM.
Show components of group in BOM (checkbox) - Should the individual components 
of the group show on the BOM.

Perhaps giving the group a name will group the components on the BOM and the 
checkbox be reversed (Don't show...).

The strip (Vero) board is a great component, but currently it only allows 
horizontal strips.

It would be great if there was a way to rotate it, so the strips were vertical.
Not a major issue I know, but Im trying to translate a complex breadboard to a 
stripboard, and I keep having to rotate my head :D

Not sure if this is a general problem, or a problem trying to read 3.0.6 files 
in 3.0.7.

What happens is that when a file is loaded, the components are squished much 
more closely together than when it was saved.  I think perhaps it has something 
to do with user defined grid spacing being ignored at some point, perhaps when 
file is saved or reloaded.

Attached is a file that appears squished when reloaded. Grid spacing is 0.125" 

Also attached is a png of the same circuit before it was squished.

3.0.6beta

Files that contain images cannot be reopened. Not sure if this is a more 
general problem.
There seem to be other problems with images too, including failure to display 
image (jpeg) on load.

3.0.6B

Marshall style perf-boards often render incorrectly, with the holes overlapping 
the edge of the canvas. Occurs to a lesser extent with the eyelet board.

Absence of 8 and 9 pin tube sockets is now the only thing preventing this from 
being practically useful for most of us.

When you create a curved pcb-trace you can't place two of the control points at 
the same location. This means you can't do nice smooth bends like you could in 
v2, as this is somewhat my trademark when it comes to pcb-design this is a 
major feature for me.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
If two connection points touch, and the sticky points take effect, after I move 
one component, the other one seems to de-activate. It ceases being selectable. 
This seems to affect traces more than other components. The object still 
responds to sticky points, but is either impossible to individually select 
(lower occurrence), or it's main body is un-selectable, but its endpoints are 
still active (more frequent). 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Typically, once I lay down a trace, its entire length is selectable, but this 
bug usually makes it so that once moved with a sticky point, it's only 
selectable at its endpoints, or not at all. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
V3.0.3 - Win7

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a terminal
2. enter on diy-layout-creator directory
3. chmod +x ./run.sh
4. ./run.sh

diylc-3.0.8-beta tuxa$ ./run.sh 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version 
number in .class file
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:676)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:317)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:280)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:375)


I Use Mac OS X Version 10.5.8
java version "1.5.0_26"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_26-b03-376-9M3263)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_26-156, mixed mode, sharing)

It version haven't been test on OsX 10.5.8 and simply not work.

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Tuux

Similar to v1, there should be a tree that shows all components in the project.

3.0.5a

Copy and paste doesn't work for TO-92 transistors.

Symbol requests: 

1. Can we have a lying-flat T0-220? 
2. A symbol for turrets/eyelets?

Add to the context (right click) menu a list of all objects on that position, 
so you can easily select the trace under that large component.

It would be great sometimes if you could move the selected part(s) with the 
arrow keys, one grid step at a time.

Using 3.0.6 Beta on Ubuntu 10.10.

I put four components on top of each other, then selected the top component and 
clicked Send to Back a few times and Send to Front. (I found that Send to Back 
sends the component down one component rather than to the back which I expected 
- but this is more useful, it's just that the command seems wrongly named, 
maybe "Towards Back" or "Down one Layer" would be better.)
I then tried to move my originally selected component away from the others, but 
it was stuck to them. I tried "Ungroup", but the only way I found to unstick 
them was to select a component, Edit it and rotate it 90o clockwise.

Saved file and log file attached.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a new project
2. Select ruler units [cm]
3. Change grid spacing units to [mm] or [cm] (example: cm)
4. Enter grid spacing other than whole unit (example: 0,5)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected the grid to be aligned with the ruler, but is it not.
The scale is different, so they are be aligned at some points, but are 
misaligned at other.

(example: when 0,5cm grid spacing is chosen, every grid line should be aligned 
with the ruler - but it's not)

*However, If the ruler units are in [cm] and grid spacing is set to 1 [cm], 
then they appear to be in perfect alignment.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 3.0.5 beta on Windows7 professional 32bit

Other:
I don't see this as an important issue,
but I noticed it and wanted you to know it exists :)

The snapshot of the issue is attached.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Added a text and entered the text value
2. Added another and entered the text value
3. Tried to move #2 and the Java VM crashed

Nothing of interest in the log, but the last few lines of the console are:

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12:54:14,116 DEBUG [AWT-EventQueue-0] Presenter - Expanding selected component 
map
12:54:14,116 DEBUG [AWT-EventQueue-0] Presenter - Including component: VR2
12:54:14,116 DEBUG [AWT-EventQueue-0] Presenter - Including component: W4
12:54:14,116 DEBUG [AWT-EventQueue-0] Presenter - Including component: W6
12:54:14,116 DEBUG [AWT-EventQueue-0] Presenter - Component count changed, 
trying one more time.
12:54:14,116 DEBUG [AWT-EventQueue-0] Presenter - Expanding selected component 
map
12:54:14,117 DEBUG [AWT-EventQueue-0] Presenter - Component count didn't 
change, done with expanding.
Invalid memory access of location 0x30 rip=0x7fff82cc711c

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I am a developer and can help out with any debugging you may need.  I have all 
the Java tools to help out, just let me know.

Objects like boards lost off the edge of the canvas can cause severe 
performance degradation (resembling a hard crash at the most extreme), and can 
cause other weirdness.

Basic boards, in particular, act strangely if dragged off the canvas by 
accident or if the board is resized smaller. Even when the canvas size is 
increased to subsequently show them, they usually have become zombies that 
cannot be moved or resized.  

Hello,

I wonder if a "trim pot" element/symbol could be added to the collection?
A lot of us fellow diylc users missed it a lot in the previous versions as well 
;)

This is a perfect example (although for version 2.x) of what I think would be a 
nice addition:

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=f49ba7a6a5204f8056387b
17659ec0f1&topic=44838.msg717032#msg717032

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a new project and add a perfboard
2. set the zoom level in the status bar to 200%
3. note that the top 1" of the workspace is now either blank or contans garbage.

(reducing magnification returns the workspace to normal)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected the workspace but saw garbage.

Whenever possible, please attach the latest log file. It will
provide valuable information when trying to reproduce and locate the
problem. Log files can be found in the log directory under the main
application directory and are marked with date and time.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

perhaps I've missed something, but I can't find a way to rotate fixed format 
components. 

e.g trimmers, to-92 transistor, to220 transistor

this is pretty important for perf board work :-)


What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Whenever possible, please attach the latest log file. It will
provide valuable information when trying to reproduce and locate the
problem. Log files can be found in the log directory under the main
application directory and are marked with date and time.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

When I hover the "selection size" button in the status bar the tooltip pops up 
and almost covers the whole button. The tooltip is located at the same spot if 
I hover high or low on the button so I guess you decide where the tooltip 
should be shown.

The jar file contained in the current 3.0.6 beta zip, actually contains version 
3.0.5

The built-in updater feature then lets you know that 3.0.6 is available, with 
some fixes, but just takes you to the same download page

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Select any object in your layout
2. Click Edit->Bring to Front or Edit->Send to Back
3. note that object does not change position

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expect that the selected object will move "in" or "out", relative to other 
objects in the layout.  However, the object order does not change.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

issue occurs in v3.0.6B, on Win XP.

3.0.8

Not sure how to duplicate this, but now that I'm starting to work with more 
complicated files, I'm beginning to see crashes where the workspace window just 
abruptly disappears. There is no hang, it just quits without notice, as if the 
application had been closed.  I'm not sure the log is informative, but attached 
is one where it just died.  It seems to happen about every 45 minutes or so 
when working on the attached file.

When you export (at least) trace mask to png and just type the filename part 
the program won't add the extension part (.png).

This might be true for all exports but I've only tested traces to png. 

Clicking the lightbulb icon on the statusbar checks for updates, and shows a 
dialog with  'Download' and 'Close'

Clicking 'Download' attempts to launch a browser, but it appears to be 
hardcoded to netscape and so fails if netscape is not installed.

Im using the 3.0.5 jar on Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open program
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
unable to use program, endless "No active document" error windows.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.x? the windows-only version. windows 7, up-to-date

Please provide any additional information below.

3.0.7: Messing with the zooming levels (i.e. choosing a few different ones in a 
short period of time) makes the program unresponsive...scroll bars stop working 
and component selection wont work.  Not a hard crash, as it will (I think) 
eventually come back, but may take several minutes.  It also responds correctly 
to requests to close the window.

When will you restore some form of zooming with the mouse wheel? If I can't 
talk you into making that the default, then at least can it be a "shift-wheel" 
for zoom? 

Turret holes sizes can be made larger than the turret itself, resulting in a 
misrendering.

The ruler is really hard to use to position components, because the red marks 
show the current position of the pointer, and don't tell you anything useful 
about the position of the object being dragged. It would be very helpful to 
have additional little half-height markers on the ruler that show you the max 
top,bottom,right, and left of the selected object(s). 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


Please use labels and text to provide additional information.

The first time I even saw the rulers was just moments ago when looking at the 
submitted issues here, but now that I see them I don't want to. They steal 
screen real estate from my small laptop display for no use I can think of. I 
understand other use this feature and I just might find some use for rulers at 
some point just not that often.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Unknown

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
After adding one resistor to a layout, I tried to add a second.  The IDE did 
not add the second resistor, but popped up a message box saying "could not add 
component".

Log file attached

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
3.0.3 alpha,  Win XP 32-bt



Please provide any additional information below.

Similar to how v1 works, user would be able to load template with different 
types of boards and other components pre-arranged.

Sometimes it is still taking more than one click to place an item during 
component placement. The first click will be ignored, it seems about one time 
in 15 or 20, I'm not sure if there is a reliable way to reproduce. It happens 
sometimes too when placing the second spot for an item such as a wire, not 
always just on the first click.

Playing around with this, there are a few features that would be very helpful:

1.  Have a "master switch" for view values, view name, or individual settings.  
Setting to "Display values", for instance, would override the individual 
component settings and show only values for every component... etc.

2. A key, that while pressed, overrides "snap-to-grid". It turns out to be 
fairly inconvenient to go to the menu to disable snap to grid every time you 
want to fine position, or attach a wire to a tube socket, etc., then re-enable 
it when done.

3. An *awesome* feature would be a "clone" button, that would allow you to use 
an existing component as a template, and would "clone" that component, but with 
your own default settings.... so I could easily create, for instance, 
electrolytic caps using the template, that correspond to my 47uF, 33uF, 22uF, 
and 10uF sizes. Added parts would be added to the library and persist between 
openings of the program.  There are a couple of ways these could be 
displayed...either up top with everything else, or, when you select a template, 
it would show you the "daughter" parts based on it on a lower row. You would 
also need a way to delete unwanted clones. 

3.0.6B

Intermittently, multi-selecting by this method fails, leaving the outline of 
the area intended to be selected even after the mouse button is released, with 
nothing actually selected.

1. Pulling the bottom left hand corner of a vero board to the left of the top 
right hand corner no longer makes it disappear, but not everything is drawn 
correctly.

2. Pulling an object off of the current area makes it disappear, possibly 
forever. It would be much better to have objects off the work area visible 
(maybe with different alpha), but set up so that they would not appear in 
printouts, PDFs or images... as I mentioned before it is very useful to have 
some "scratch" space off the main layout where you can stash things.

3. Boards can be shrunk until one dimension becomes zero. When this happens, it 
becomes a line that can never be re-expanded. 2D objects should not be allowed 
to shrink to 1D, and 1D objects should not be allowed to shrink to a point (the 
last seems to have been corrected).

4. If I create an object like a pad, then change the grid dimensions, the 
previously created objects will snap to the new grid differently then newly 
created objects when moved.

5. I've noticed that the ctrl move option to over-ride it from snapping to the 
grid is gone. I'll miss this.

6. Feature request: I know there are little red sliders along the ruler 
indicating current position, but it would be very helpful to have an actual 
numeric coordinate displayed somewhere as well.

7. When I select an IC, it is not rendering correctly until I click on it to 
see properties, then just click OK... the pins are coming out weird. Looks like 
this happens with the switch sometimes too...
Looks like this behaviour happens when the grid spacings are altered...

8. The BoM is still listing every wire used. Surely it's enough to just list 
once each color of wire and gauge combination of wire that's been used?

9. This is a biggie. Once objects have "stuck" I can't seem to unstick them.. 
In V2, I could shift-select (I think it was) an object or group of objects so 
that it could be moved without dragging along everything that was stuck to it.

10. For hookup wire and other things where the two click drop makes less sense, 
maybe you could show and move around a shadowed version of the object until you 
select where it goes (kind of like the way LTSpice does it)?

11. The two click placement method seems OK, but ideally, you could have two 
selection behaviours.. if the user just single clicks and releases on a 
component item, then that could activate the two-click system like you have 
now. But it would be really really nice if you added the ability to 
click-and-hold on a component, and have it activate a drag-and-drop mode where 
a shadowed version of the object is dragged onto the canvas and dropped upon 
release of the button. I think you would find that both methods could live very 
happily side-by-side, and it would make item placement very intuitive indeed.

12. Nag... Layer lock, especially for boards, was a good V2 feature!

13. There's another bug with IC's... sometimes, after they've been created, 
they can't be moved until "OK" has been clicked in the properties.

14. It's possible to put two components right on top of each other so that one 
disappears, as right now there's no way to separately move them. This is 
particularly a problem for things like ICs where there is no pivoting action.

15. There seems to be a bug with the two-click method where I sometimes seems 
to need to do the second click several times before it "takes" and draws the 
object.

16. I notice that the switch cannot be rotated, and that the IC only in 90deg 
increments. The ability to specify an exact amount of rotation was occasionally 
very useful in V2, especially for things like tube sockets.

17. There is something weird with clicking on a bare part of the canvas. 
Sometimes, it gives you the project properties as expected. But sometimes, it 
seems to think it is on a board (when it is not). You can see a green dot 
appear as if it is going to place a board. It doesn't, but if you click again, 
you are adjusting the properties for the non-existent board. When this is 
happening, you can also not click-and-hold to select several objects..again, it 
thinks you are selecting a non-existent board. 

Alpha 3.0.4

1. Rotating a pot 180 degrees results in a misdraw.

2. For ICs (probably elswhere, row spacings can be made so small only pins are 
showing. It can also be made negative, which results in a component misdraw.

3. Setting project grid spacing too small (I think sub-1mm) causes a hard 
crash.  

4. Similar hard crashes occur when setting element spacing too small in vero 
boards, etc. so this seems to be a general problem.

5. Picture placement and scale to small size seems to cause hangs. Have tried 
so far only with a png.

6. Clicking on a "new project" item only changes its component value, not the 
value of the text, which must be changed from the Edit Project. This is 
counter-intuitive. Nobody cares what the component number is for an annotation 
or comment.

7. Passive component thumbnail drawing for radial cap is confusing as it is 
solid blue. Can it have the light blue interior like the full-size ones please?

8. The boards being allowed to shrink to a point then disappear bug is back.

9. Crazy feature request... if I click on an item in the BoM, can it select 
that item?

10. If I click to select a component, but then change my mind and go instead to 
another tab, it changes to the new tab ok... but if I then go to the main 
canvas it is still showing the old component. Clicking to a new tab before 
completing component placement should abort component selection.

11.  Why did you get rid of thumbwheel zooming? That is way more awesome and 
useful than scrolling. Thumbwheel scrolling sucks, because there are two 
dimensions in which you scroll, and you usually need to scroll left to right, 
not up and down anyway.  At the very least, make thumbwheel zoom a 
ctrl-thumbwheel combo or something.

12. Once I've made the canvas big, it won't let me then reduce the project size 
to levels that should be allowable, even if there are no objects outside the 
area I want.

13. When exporting to PDF or PNG, any chance of having a rectangle frame placed 
corresponding to the document size?

14. "Bring to front" doesn't actually bring to front, it seems to be bringing 
it forward in the layer hierarchy... it often takes several applications of 
"Bring to front" to get something TO the front. Most apps have separate 
controls for bring to front/send to back and move up/down layer.

Cheers,

Paul

The default, 90, 180, and 270 options for rotation are good enough for many 
components, but are something a serious limitation for tube sockets.. It is 
very rare that the optimal alignment falls right on one of the axis...  I much 
preferred the V2 option of arbitrary rotation angles.

either as a converter tool or menu option.

Currently resistors, capacitors, etc can only display one of their attributes 
(like name, or value)

It would be nice if the component could display multiple attributes at the same 
time like name, capacitance, voltage rating, etc.

Can't turn off the grid

Component suggestion, tape measure
Feature request: Hide layers function?

Feature request: Thin toolbar with (that can be hidden) with hide/lock layer 
buttons, some config options, open/save ... Nice to see/change quickly which 
features are enabled.

Praise: Nice to see that things that aren't aligned to grid doesn't snap back 
to "on grid" when moved as part of a selection where something is aligned to 
the grid.

Bug: I do feel though that when moving parts that aren't on the grid, but with 
"snap to grid" enabled the pieces should keep their "off-grid'ishness" and not 
snap back to the grid, i.e. act like there was something I moved that was "on" 
the grid.

Heartbreak: I miss the option of holding down the ctrl-key to disengage "snap 
to grid".

Bug: Labels for the standing resistors?

Feature request: Click the labels in the list of selected items to select only 
that part. Nice when there's a lot of overlapping parts and traces and you want 
to select just one of them without locking layers.

While I remember, a function to "add missing solder pads", that adds solder 
pads for every component leg that doesn't already have one right under it. I 
tend to add all pads that aren't for off board wiring or jumpers as the last 
thing. Would be nice to have it automated, even though the "continuous 
creation" setting is a bless.

1. A "send to front" and send to back" option would be helpful along with the 
move up - move back already available.
2. Being able to have an extra control point to bend the leads of a component 
would also be helpful when doing layouts on a turret board. Look at how I used 
jumpers on the cathode bypass caps in my layout below to make the parallel 
connections.

I'm in a country where we use commas instead of dots in numbers. Java seams to 
know this and shows the value with a comma (i.e. 1,25) but if I edit the value 
I have to replace it with a dot (i.e. 1.25, strangely not for values I don't 
edit I suppose you don't "bother" to read those).