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Inside the add componentt menu, WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU PUT THE DROP BUTTON THERE?  First of all, any normal user who's not completly high on bath salts would think "drop" would drop the component onto the schematic. BUT NO, it drops a subset of the library from the database obviously.  I mean "remove" takes a few too many characters to fit in the button nicely or something.  Then it corrupts the library so when I "use" the library again, I get an error message and can't use those components any more.

  • On 21.12.2011 11:38, joseph taft wrote:

    Inside the add componentt menu, WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING

    WHEN YOU PUT THE DROP BUTTON THERE?  First of all, any normal user

    who's not completly high on bath salts would think "drop" would drop

    the component onto the schematic. BUT NO, it drops a subset of the

    library from the database obviously.  I mean "remove" takes a few too

    many characters to fit in the button nicely or something.  Then it

    corrupts the library so when I "use" the library again, I get an

    error message and can't use those components any more.

     

     

     

    Drop means that the library file will be dropped from the list

    of libraries in the dialog. Nothing happens to the library file

    itself if you "drop" it. It is not deleted, nor is it saved.

    It is no longer in use or better said not available forthe ADD

    command. That's it. It does not corrupt the library.

    I don't know what happened with your library..... You could send it

    to me, then we can try to get out.

     

     

    --

    Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

    Richard Hammerl

      CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

      FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

     

     

  • in reply to Former Member

    Am 21.12.2011 14:01, schrieb Richard Hammerl:

    Drop means that the library file will be dropped from the list

    of libraries in the dialog.

     

    Yes. It DOES mean that. Expert users know that. But for NEW users, the

    word DROP means something completely different, and it's quite

    definitely NOT the intuitive word to use for THAT function. EAGLE is

    full of strange anachronistic words that either don't mean a thing at

    all, or even mean a completely DIFFERENT thing (e.g., the command WIRE

    should NOT be used for wiring components - aaargh!).

     

    When brushing up EAGLE's GUI, CadSoft should use better words for things

    - you see that users can get quite frustrated in their work due to bad

    wording...

     

    See also my post 'EAGLE GUI (2): Unintelligible menus' in

    'eagle.suggest.eng', which is not only valid for menus, but also for

    dialogs etc.

     

    Andreas Weidner

     

  • in reply to Former Member

    Drop? That is one of the most UN-intuitive features of Eagle. Somebody might

    think that it would drop the listed component into the schematic, but no

    that's not what happens at all.

    Just try to drop that component into your project and see what happens. It's

    very funny.

     

    "Richard Hammerl" <support@cadsoft.de> wrote in message

    news:jcslat$p5p$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    On 21.12.2011 11:38, joseph taft wrote:

    >> Inside the add componentt menu, WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING

    >> WHEN YOU PUT THE DROP BUTTON THERE?  First of all, any normal user

    >> who's not completly high on bath salts would think "drop" would drop

    >> the component onto the schematic. BUT NO, it drops a subset of the

    >> library from the database obviously.  I mean "remove" takes a few too

    >> many characters to fit in the button nicely or something.  Then it

    >> corrupts the library so when I "use" the library again, I get an

    >> error message and can't use those components any more.

    >>

    >

     

    Drop means that the library file will be dropped from the list

    of libraries in the dialog. Nothing happens to the library file

    itself if you "drop" it. It is not deleted, nor is it saved.

    It is no longer in use or better said not available forthe ADD

    command. That's it. It does not corrupt the library.

    I don't know what happened with your library..... You could send it

    to me, then we can try to get out.

     

    >

    --

    Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

    Richard Hammerl

    CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

    FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

     

     

     

     

  • in reply to Former Member

    brett and joesph are right the word "DROP" on that dialog should be if anything drop component to schematic...

    there shouldnt be ANY option to DROP a lib in that dialog...

    a new dialog should be made for ADDING and DROPPING libraries

    (the way its down now is bad anyway, with a file open dialog)

    unitutive

     

    that dialog is for ADDING parts to sheet

     

     

    my 2 cents

  • Op Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:38:43 +0100 schreef joseph taft 

    <noreply-80287@element14.com>:

     

    WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU PUT THE DROP BUTTON THERE?

     

    Well, it's just one of those little Cadsoft things: you spent 10 years 

    trying to avoid clicking on that button by accident, while during that 

    entire period you've got no idea whatsoever what it is doing there or why 

    it is named that way.

     

    It adds to the nerdy charm of the program, I guess..

     

    Maybe, when Klaus has fully recovered from working on the 'CUT & COPY' 

    soap, he can take on this one?

     

     

    Richard

     

  • in reply to Former Member

    Hi Richard,

     

    I don't have any problem wit that button, but what annoys me much is the fact, that the munh more usefull button, USE, is missing.  I remember it was in early versions (2.x, perhaps 3.x) and then it disappeared. I hoped in 6.0 it would appear, but it didn't - pity...