EAGLE v8.0 causes icons to revert to classic style w hen subsequently opening v7.7

On 1/24/2017 10:43 AM, Rachael wrote:

Hello,

 

I've been playing about with v8.0 over the last week but today went back to

v7.7 and was presented with a UI that had strange icons I didn't

recognise!

 

Upon checking the settings I found the "Classic icon style" checkbox was

ticked. I presume this is because v8.0 no longer has this so removed the

setting from the EAGLE config file causing it to default on in v7. Now for

some this might be seen as a pro for v8 as they don't like the new style

icons but I do and I don't want to have to keep changing the setting back

and restarting every time I switch from v8.0 to v7.7. Could you please fix

this for the next release?

 

It begs the question, are there any other settings which are accidentally

being altered which might be more subtle and not so easily spotted?

Can you please make sure that v8 preserves the integrity and backwards

compatibility of the config files?

 

Many thanks,

 

Rachael

Hi Rachael,

Cross pollination of eaglerc files is actually a problem across all

versions of EAGLE it's not new to Autodesk EAGLE. Under certain

circumstances two versions of EAGLE may be writing to the same eaglerc

file and clobber each other's changes.

The recommended solution for now is start eagle using a batch

script(Windows, use the Mac equivalent in your case) using the -U option

to specify the location of the configuration file. That's how I have

multiple versions of EAGLE installed on my machine without the eaglerc

files mixing.

Some people never get bit by this, other get bit every release.

Here's the text from on of my batch files:

"C:\EAGLE-7.3.2\bin\eagle.exe" -U"C:\Users\Jorge\Documents\eaglerc732.usr"

Just adjust the paths for your Mac and it should work. This is a long

standing issue that will hopefully be addressed soon.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

On 1/24/2017 10:43 AM, Rachael wrote:

Hello,

 

I've been playing about with v8.0 over the last week but today went back to

v7.7 and was presented with a UI that had strange icons I didn't

recognise!

 

Upon checking the settings I found the "Classic icon style" checkbox was

ticked. I presume this is because v8.0 no longer has this so removed the

setting from the EAGLE config file causing it to default on in v7. Now for

some this might be seen as a pro for v8 as they don't like the new style

icons but I do and I don't want to have to keep changing the setting back

and restarting every time I switch from v8.0 to v7.7. Could you please fix

this for the next release?

 

It begs the question, are there any other settings which are accidentally

being altered which might be more subtle and not so easily spotted?

Can you please make sure that v8 preserves the integrity and backwards

compatibility of the config files?

 

Many thanks,

 

Rachael

Hi Rachael,

Cross pollination of eaglerc files is actually a problem across all

versions of EAGLE it's not new to Autodesk EAGLE. Under certain

circumstances two versions of EAGLE may be writing to the same eaglerc

file and clobber each other's changes.

The recommended solution for now is start eagle using a batch

script(Windows, use the Mac equivalent in your case) using the -U option

to specify the location of the configuration file. That's how I have

multiple versions of EAGLE installed on my machine without the eaglerc

files mixing.

Some people never get bit by this, other get bit every release.

Here's the text from on of my batch files:

"C:\EAGLE-7.3.2\bin\eagle.exe" -U"C:\Users\Jorge\Documents\eaglerc732.usr"

Just adjust the paths for your Mac and it should work. This is a long

standing issue that will hopefully be addressed soon.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia