Hi all,
Having some problems, the problem is pretty much summed as the title describes.
After I open the schematic at all for any length of time then clicking the footprint editor from the main menu does nothing. I can see the button highlight as I click it but no window pops up indicating that something is loading. This is repeatable every time.
Weirdly if I open the schematic editor first then the schematic editor opens fine. Its not impacted by any of the other editors/tools.
I’ve tried opening Kicad in the terminal but there is no logs I can see. I have provided the version information below, let me know what other information I can provide!
I’m using 9.0.4 on Fedora 42. I cannot reproduce your issue. I open a project, then open the project’s schematic. Finally, I click the footprint editor button on the main window and it opens just fine.
In the past I remember an issue where I had to open the pcb editor before opening the footprint editor.
If you do that, what happens? I.e. open the schematic, then the pcb, then the footprint editor. Does that sequence work?
I just realised this actually does impact my workflow quite a bit. Since footprint assignments is done through the schematics window via the “assign footprints” button and I often preview the footprints before assigning them, the window does not work properly (I assume because most of the code is shared with the footprint editor)
Funnily enough, it does actually open I just cannot pan and selecting things or using tools (ruler) on the footprint is not visible to me until I zoom in or out and force the view to “refresh”.
I think I will create an issue on the kicad gitlab.