Re: Problems with options

[Steven Rubin]

> 1.  It seems that if I run ALS to simulate my schematic, closing the 
> waveform window leaves something resident such that when I leave Electric 
> and restart it later, trying to run a sim again results in errors about 
> not being able to find a module, or no vhdl being found.  If I make some 
> change to the circuit and re-save, it stops the simulator and I can 
> usually get it running again correctly.  I tried using the 'U' key in the 
> waveform window but it has no effect.  Is there a way to STOP the 
> simulator as opposed to simply killing the window?  It is somewhat 
> frustrating when I make changes to the circuit and upon restarting the sim 
> to find that if it does start, the signal names are not updated with the 
> schematic changes and I am presented with the same waveform window as the 
> earlier sim run.

I have done some work on this interaction, and it will be available the 
next release, scheduled to be released very soon.  However, to be sure that 
this problem is fixed, please send a small library and instructions for 
repeating the problem.

> 2.  I compiled electric 6.07 to include irsim support, but even though I 
> set ALS to be the default and saved my options, every time I restart 
> electric I find that irsim is once again the default simulator.  Is this a 
> known problem or is it me?
>
> 3.  Along the same lines as #2, I set my number base for busses to 16 as 
> opposed to the default 10, but everytime I get a sim running I find that 
> the base is once again 10.

These two are known issues and are fixed in 6.08.

> 4.  Colors do not stay in effect.  I like black background colors and I 
> can set them in the schematic window, but as soon as I open a different 
> view like vhdl, simulator, etc, everything goes back to the default 
> colors.  If I save options with black background and exit electric, it 
> will come up using the black background, but as soon as I open another 
> window, bam! back to default.

I cannot repeat this, so I suspect it is also fixed in 6.08.

   -Steven Rubin