Lines appear as invisible while trying to create a schematic cell - exceptions are caught

[Joanne Lacta]

Hey everyone.

I've been using Electric for 2 weeks already. It's part of an academic course I have. It used to work well until...

Yesterday I was having class and we were doing exercises using Electric. I was messing with previous cells to create a new one as part of yesterday's class. While trying to create one, I clicked my right mouse key to generate a new one and suddenly... my lines disappeared. Instead of blue they were invisible. I couldn't add inputs and/or outputs.

I tried going to "File>Preferences>General>Reset All" and it caused me an exception. Did the same many times but still an exception. And this morning someone sent me a picture so I could solve the issue by going to "File>Preferences>Arcs", hitting "Schematic" but it caused me an exception. I deleted it but reinstalling it doesn't work. Same issue only when I do schematic cells.

Lines appear as invisible.

The version I've been using is Electric 8.09 and this version is what my professor uses and recommends.

I tried to restart my laptop but still same thing.

Is there any way I could COMPLETELY remove this off my computer and reinstall it (so the issue won't persist again)?

Should I try a later version of Electric apart from what the rest uses (8.09)?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Gavin]

If loosing bindings and possibly other setting changes you may have made is not an issue for you, you could try removing the electric key in registry, refer to the past post at the following link for more information on that:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/electricvlsi/sJrWZdkRVUE/t39qEsOpAwAJ

[Steven Rubin]

Version 8.09? That's over 11 years old. The latest version of Electric is 9.07 and regardless of your professor's recommendation, you should upgrade. That way, the decade-old bugs in the system will be fixed, and any new bugs you might uncover can be corrected.

Gavin's advice is correct, though. To fully reset Electric, you need to delete any preferences that may be on your computer by removing them from the operating system. The operation varies with each different system, so read here to be sure you get it right:

        https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap06-03.html

  -Steven Rubin

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[Joanne Lacta]

What I had to do is download the latest version (which is 9.07) and delete my "electric" folder on the registry editor. That way it works!

Thank you very much!