In this instance, but it doesn’t seem to matter what property is changed.
Open Symbol Properties.
Change something. I changed “show name” & “italic” in Reference.
Clicked OK and up came the error box with an incorrect notification.
Clicked OK in Error box
A new empty fifth Field opened without prompting.
Clicked the rubbish bin symbol
The new fifth field was deleted.
Click OK and the properties box closes and the changes to the symbol show.
There seem to be a few unnecessary steps to change properties.
Would others test please and confirm before I report.
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor x86_64 on x86_64
Agree about a possible bug. I wanted confirmation before reporting.
Have not struck this behavior in any 6.99s before. My last 6.99 version was Jan 3.
I’ll wait for other replies first.
Thanks for your time.
Went back to 6.0.10 and found a similar problem.
This time as soon as Properties is opened a new field is generated. If named then closed, upon opening again, yet another field is generated.
New fields can be deleted, the warning goes, and the Property window will close.
All very strange, but I suspect it could be me.
Anyone with any ideas?
No 5th line, no error message, just works.
Erasing the reference’s value and clicking somewhere brings up a message that references can’t be empty, which is fine.
So all good here.
Can you check the Field Name Template List in the Schematic Setup of global Preferences for that empty field entry?
If I place there an empty field I can save this w/o any error. If I edit any symbol for editing I can’t close this w/o the same error.
Edit: Concluded: With this “special”/wrong setting I can confirm this bug. But this should be prevented in the template field name dialogs.
Good to hear that. Yep, sometimes it’s just a necessary power cycle, uninstalling a win patch or Monday blocking reliable software doing its normal stuff. Or do you mean something that has to do with a vacuum cleaner
