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[Alexandre Rusev]

Do you mean that you fixed issue with unicode characters in the new version LTSpice raw file?

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Gavin <gabo...@gmail.com>: Dec 21 02:27AM -0800 Developer(s) and Steve,   1. I'm looking at the Electric Eclipse usage instructions at: https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap01-04-05.html   Do you have steps that you can share on how you create the electric-9.08d.jar and electricBinary-9.08d.jar from the current trunk source code with Eclipse as I'm not seeing that in the instructions?   2. Can you test and incorporate the attached RawSpiceOut.java into the savannah repository for Electric, if you like how it works for plotting LTspice XVII raw data with Write Spice Deck, refer to the attached "Plot LTSPICE XVII raw with Electric.pdf"?   Thanks,   Gavin   On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 10:42:05 PM UTC-7 Gavin wrote:

Gavin <gabo...@gmail.com>: Dec 21 10:22PM -0800 Steve,   Thanks for this improvement.   You're welcome. Though, there may be a small bug with it that I have been unable to determine the exact cause and solution for. Sometimes it has crashed on stopProgressDialog() in the Stimuli processInput function of RawSpiceOut.java. Sometimes a workaround is to run it multiple times until the Waveforms window comes up and restarting Eclipse sometimes may have helped. I haven't tried making a jar file to see if there is a relation to use of the Eclipse IDE environment or not.   I'm not really happy that you have to place a dummy file somewhere to tell Electric what is going on. It should really be a preference. So I changed it.   Yeah, I was also thinking about a checkbox in "Spice/CDL" Preferences but due to my lack of experience with the Electric code base I wasn't sure how complex the programming for it would be. So I went with the simple dummy file approach looking for advice, but thanks for implementing the checkbox.   New code is in the repository. Now, in the "Spice/CDL" Preferences, there is a checkbox "Use newer LTSpice XVII" which you must check to make your code active. No empty files are necessary.   Thanks for putting the new code in the repository, the new option in "Spice/CDL" looks nice:   [image: New_Spice-CDL_window.png]   Also, I have attached the Ant build file that assembles a working version of Electric with all the bells and whistles.   Thanks for sending the buildPublicWithExtras.xml file for Ant from the packaging folder [ http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/electric/trunk/electric/packaging/ ].   I will read more about Ant in the Electric manual   https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap01-04-03.html   https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap01-04-02.html   and on the Internet.   Of note, in the "Building Electric from Source Code with Eclipse.pdf" previously sent, I have discovered that it is the installation of Scala IDE 4.7.x that currently breaks the "New launch configuration" in the Run Configuration. So the "Add Scala IDE to Eclipse" section can be skipped.   Gavin   On Monday, December 21, 2020 at 3:27:55 AM UTC-7 Gavin wrote:

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[Gavin]

Yes, Electric will load LTSpice XVII raw files now.  The checkbox "Use newer LTSpice XVII" has to be selected in "Spice/CDL" Preferences.  Also, you currently have to build and run the source code from the repository trunk to have this new feature.  The repository is at:

http://savannah.gnu.org/svn/?group=electric

Sections 1-4 in the Electric manual contain additional information about the Electric source code:

https://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/index.html

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