Unknown identifier 'sleep' while running felicitas_pcbsim.ulp

Hi,

there is currently no stable EAGLE version supporting 'sleep'. You can

either wait for V6.6 or alternatively try the latest beta ('sleep' has

been added in 6.5.2).

Rene

rk wrote on Thu, 08 May 2014 15:08

Hi,

 

there is currently no stable EAGLE version supporting 'sleep'. You can

either wait for V6.6 or alternatively try the latest beta ('sleep' has

been added in 6.5.2).

Then the proper way to do that is to check the version of EAGLE that is

running and refuse to run if the version isn't high enough.  Then the user

knows that the particular ULP isn't supported without upgrading.  You can

even add a dialog that indicates the minimum version to help out.

Not sure who the author of the ULP is, but this should be added if you

don't want 1000 questions about the same thing.  And it's generally a good

practice to use in any ULP.

James.

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Hi,

Then the proper way to do that is to check the version of EAGLE that is

running and refuse to run if the version isn't high enough.  Then the user

knows that the particular ULP isn't supported without upgrading.  You can

even add a dialog that indicates the minimum version to help out.

 

Not sure who the author of the ULP is, but this should be added if you

don't want 1000 questions about the same thing.  And it's generally a good

practice to use in any ULP.

I can agree more... especially when the ulp is presented on the home page of cadsoft website ...

and, It should be presented as a "future feature" since there is no eagle stable version that support it !

G. Barrey

Hi,

Am 08.05.2014 22:33, schrieb James Morrison:

Then the proper way to do that is to check the version of EAGLE that is

running and refuse to run if the version isn't high enough.  Then the user

knows that the particular ULP isn't supported without upgrading.  You can

even add a dialog that indicates the minimum version to help out.

There is no need for an ULP to check that, as we have the #require

directive. The author actually added that directive, but the value has

been set to the wrong value.

Not sure who the author of the ULP is, but this should be added if you

don't want 1000 questions about the same thing.  And it's generally a good

practice to use in any ULP.

They officially released an ULP without having a stable version being

able to run that ULP. This also does not look as being good practice.

Rene

rk wrote on Thu, 08 May 2014 17:14

Hi,

 

Am 08.05.2014 22:33, schrieb James Morrison:

Then the proper way to do that is to check the version of EAGLE

that is

running and refuse to run if the version isn't high enough.  Then

the user

knows that the particular ULP isn't supported without upgrading.

You can

even add a dialog that indicates the minimum version to help out.

 

There is no need for an ULP to check that, as we have the #require

directive. The author actually added that directive, but the value has

been set to the wrong value.

That's the facility I meant, just didn't look it up.  I forget it if tells

you the message by default or if you have to do that with your own dialog.

But the ULP shouldn't try to run if it knows it can't due to version

issues.

Quote:

Not sure who the author of the ULP is, but this should be added if

you

don't want 1000 questions about the same thing.  And it's generally

a good

practice to use in any ULP.

 

They officially released an ULP without having a stable version being

able to run that ULP. This also does not look as being good practice.

True.  If you set the require to 6.5_2 then it will work when the major

release comes around (in theory) but would give an error on the current

stable release.  That would be better.

I understand you might want to get it out there but having it not run on

the current stable version isn't great.

James.

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On 9/05/2014 7:08 a.m., René König wrote:

Hi,

 

there is currently no stable EAGLE version supporting 'sleep'. You can

either wait for V6.6 or alternatively try the latest beta ('sleep' has

been added in 6.5.2).

 

Rene

 

Or alternately insert your own sleep() function into the ULP.

Place the following into the ULP at around line 200 after the line:

/* ################## Functions ####################### */

/* ###########Copy the lines below########### */

void sleep(int secs)

{

     int start     = timems();

     while (timems() - start  < secs *1000);

}

/* ########### Copy the lines above ######### */