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This's probably quite off-topic but maybe someone else share my experience... when I started coding KiCAD plugins and learning Python I decided to use VSCode (with Microsoft Python extension) because I already use it for a number of other things and works great.

I have two main issues mostly bound to Python extension itself other than VSCode:

1. VSCode try to use python 3.7 binary (I installed it on my machine and I need it) instead kicad/python 2 (it's installed on a different location);

2. even if I setup VSCode to look for additional packages with a specific configuration file (settings.json):

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When using triple quotes in an indented position I for sure get indentation in the output js string too:

Comparing these two in a nested let

I'm writing a class to serialize a KiCAD BOM/Schematic file. The class works fine and correctly serialize and deserialize the original file but I'm having two small problems that I'm unable to fix. This's the class code:

I have the following code snippets:

File router-data.ts#L46

I am trying to work through the tutorial on KiCad and it seems that the discrete pads are missing. I have already installed in OSX with the extra package. Are there some ways to add these components to my install?

Im doing my first KiCad project, and I want to make through holes so the components are mounted on the front side and the copper of the through hole is only on the back side (because my manufacture dont do "vias through-holes"). Do I accomplish this by (was supposed to post a image here but stackoverflow do not allow me to):

1. From Pad Properties under "Layers" section, choose Copper to "B.Cu" instead of default "all copper layers".

or 2: do I have to set Pad Type to NPTH and do the same as in 1?

thanks for any replies :)

This question seems simple, but I cannot find any answer on official site.

I have also tried out gitlab API with plenty url variations (an ofc. with real credentials):

I have managed to build the Kicad 4.0.6 in Linux Mageia 5.1 with gcc version 4.9.2. I first manually fixed two wxWidgets 3.0.2 header files in the /usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/ directory: regex.h and features.h. Kicad then compiled successfully. With the native wx-3.0 headers, the compiler generated the error in pcbnew/netlist_reader.cpp due to the undefined variable wxRE_ADVANCED.

The features.h header checks if the macro WX_NO_REGEX_ADVANCED is defined. If yes, features.h UNdefines wxHAS_REGEX_ADVANCED macro, and defines it, if no. The macro wxHAS_REGEX_ADVANCED, in turn, is used in regex.h to determine if among the enum constants wxRE_ADVANCED = 1 is present. The standard prebuilt Mageia 5 packages wxgtku3.0_0 and lib64wxgtku3.0-devel that I installed with the use of Mageia's software manager urpmi from Mageia repository WX_NO_REGEX_ADVANCED is defined, therefore wxHAS_REGEX_ADVANCED is undefined, and, hence, wxRE_ADVANCED is undefined either. Kicad 4.0.6 source package assumes wxRE_ADVANCED = 1, therefore the build process stops with the error.

Then I reverted /usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/regex.h and features.h to their original state and learned how to add the definition of wxRE_ADVANCED to CMakeLists.txt. However, I still have a question.

The recommended format of adding the definition to CMakeLists.txt I found at CMake command line for C++ #define is this:

I'm writing a .NET API (C#) to manage KiCAD PCB files. Their format according to docs (here) is a sort of S-Expression. I tried reusing some S-Expression parsers but for several reasons they could not fit my needs so I decided to write one but I found myself stuck. As a first try I wrote down a simple function that recursively descend into the the file structure and create a System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode hierarchy that match the structure (I used TreeNode because I use a TreeView component to depict the parsed structure):