Strange windows appearing after schematic simulation in Electric

[Arvind Gupta]

Hi,

  I was doing some schematic simulations in Electric> I noticed that after doing the simulations, when I closed the schematic window, there were small windows appearing in the bottom. They were labeled as 'Electric messages'. These windows appear every time I ran a simulation and do not have a cross 'X' to close them. What do I do about these windows. I am attaching a screenshot for you to understand the issue. I have encircled these windows with a red box.

Pls. inform me as to how I can get rid of these windows. They are pretty annoying as I get one window everytime I start a simulation!

Looking forward to hear from you.

Thanks and Regards,

Arvind Gupta.

[Gavin Abo]

It seems like a bug, but I cannot say for sure.  I don't know if anyone was found to continue the code maintenance and development of Electric.  So currently, there might not be anyone to fix the source code if that is the case.  If you know JAVA programming, you can get the code from the repository [ https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap01-04-01.html ] and modify it yourself.

It might not be convenient, but closing Electric, opening Electric, and opening your Library again might be the only way to remove the 'Electric Messages' windows.

Under Display Control

https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap04-03.html

you might try with "Show cell results in new window" unchecked and/or try changing Display style from "Operating-System default" to "SDI" to see if it changes the behavior or not.

I'm not able to reproduce the problem on my Windows 10 system with Electric 9.07 (from Help -> About Electric), JAVA 8 Update 191 (Control Panel -> Java -> General tab -> About), and LTSPICE XVII(x64) Oct 23 2018 (Help -> About LTspice XVII).  Though, it may be because the Waveform viewer in Electric is broken with LTSPICE XVII anyway.  I just open the raw file directly in LTSPICE XVII to get around that.  I haven't tried falling back on the older LTspiceIV [ https://www.mail-archive.com/electr...@googlegroups.com/msg01407.html ].  Or it might also be that more specific steps are needed for reproducing problem.

It looks like you are using Windows 7.  What version of Electric and what version of JAVA are you using?  If you provide the versions, it might help others in the future if they encounter the same problem.  It is sometimes possible for bugs to come from JAVA rather than Electric.

Kind Regards,

Gavin

[Arvind Gupta]

OK. I updated JAVA to latest version and the multiple box issue seems to have disappeared. My OLD JAVA version is  as below:

I wanted to know one more thing. Presently, I am using Electric with NGSPICE. When I run the simulation through electric, the output raw file is created but not plotted. I have to manually plot the graphs (either through Electric > Tools > Simulation (SPICE) > Plot Simulation output, choose file OR through other external waveform plotter viz. that of LTSPICE). Is there any way that after the simulation, the Electric waveform viewer pops up automatically with the list of signals mentioned on the left side (so that I can choose which signals to plot). This will save a lot of time as presently I am doing the waveform plotting activity manually.

Thanks and Regards,

Arvind Gupta.

[Gavin Abo]

Good to hear that updating the JAVA runtime version helped.

Regarding automatically bring up the waveform viewer, I think that should be possible.

The setting you need is most likely in Preferences on the Tools -> Spice/CDL window:

https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap09-04-03.html

I believe it might be the "Run probe" that has to be checked.