Which installer is that one from, 20th July Nightlies r10708/9 are not 5.0.0 at all, being derived from Master after a big dump of commits that are not in the 5.0 branch
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I briefly had that build from the test folder installed in a Win7 VM, and as I recall the 3D rendering of the project I tested worked OK. However when clicking around in PCBNew I got a strange Wxwidget message of uncertain meaning. It was indicating as if Kicad or part of KiCad thought a second instance was launched. Keep in mind that these files are not official releases, but were partially put up to test the new certificate. I am currently running the 5.0.1 development release version in the patch sub-folder as my main installation, and have not seen the problem there.
As I stated elsewhere, the 6.0 development nightlies now are best used for testing only in separate installations; there are just too many changes with all those commits to expect it to have much stability.
In all of the Release Candidates that I’ve used, the help files have been missing. The 20JUL18 5.0.0 file does include all the help files.
At the moment, I’m thinking about reverting back to an RC3. However, I may “live on the edge” and tinker with this version knowing that I can not use the 3D viewer; something about it feels like it runs significantly faster on my machine.
And how would I do that? What exactly are you looking for? The only thing I might be able to get is the Windows dialog, as KiCad completely locks up.
On Edit: I just found out that it does not crash for every project.
I was able to minimize the 3D viewer. There are no through hole dips on the board.
Trying to figure out what might be different and this came up:
Found out that the /wxWidgets issue occurs with mouse-over of the “Tools” menu on every project.
Also found that the left sidebar buttons for zone visibility don’t work on every project.
Hi Tom
Do you know if any guides, tutorials etc. For making a proper bug report with the whole tjubang? (stacktrace, GDB debug stuff and whatever Buzz words I have come across)
Preferably at the level of “just got KiCad to compile”
These now appear to have both been fixed.
However, the wxWidgets error above gets toggled both when clicking the “Tools” menu or when trying to open the 3D viewer.
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