mcbridejc
Error caused by some nightly builds enclosing the version string in parentheses
Created based on feedback in Issue #3
Sometimes, when using the script with kicad nightly, it would fail with `TypeError: in method 'FOOTPRINT_SetPosition', argument 2 of type 'VECTOR2I const &'.
This is because nightly builds use a different type for positions. The plugin does a version check for '6.99' to handle this, but it seems some versions of KiCad nightly, on some platforms, report a the version string enclosed in parenthese and these aren't handled by the plugin.
@jerseyp2 Do you want to try out the change I just merged and let me know if that resolves your issue?
@mcbridejc I started with a fresh download and example of your merged zip. When I open the project in kicad and run the external plugin, nothing appears to happen, which I expect is normal if I haven't changed any positions in the default yaml.layout. If I run the external plug again, without changing anything, I get this error:
File: C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.99\bin\Lib\logging\__init__.py, line 1086, in emit stream.write(msg + self.terminator) AttributeError: 'None Type' object has no attribute 'write'.
That error appears every time I run the external plugin, but not the very first time. I didn't change anything in the example folder.
Since this is a Kicad error, maybe it has nothing to do with the plugin. Thanks for looking into it. Let me know if there's anything I can try.
OK. That sounds like something new. I did some dumb hackery to get logging output to a file in the project directory but I've only ever used it on linux, and I bet there's something going wrong with the python environment that comes with kicad windows. I'm sorry about that. I can look into how to fix it, but the quick way to get it running is probably just to remove the logging code.
You didn't by chance get a full stack with that error? I'm interested to see where in component_layout_plugin.py it originated if it said.
I did see this at one point:
Call stack: File "C:\Users/User/Documents/KiCad/6.99/scripting\plugins\component_layout_plugin - Copy.py", line 84, in Run logger.info('Logging to {}...'.format(os.path.join(projdir, "component_layout_plugin.log")))
I'm trying to comment out the logging, but am having trouble with Kicad not refreshing the plugin. I don't think the error was caused by my attempts at that, so maybe it's worth a look.
In the error message I sent, Kicad is running my "component_layout_plugin - Copy.py", which I copied as a backup. I didn't think it would do that since I effectively renamed the plugin. Adding to my confusion.