failiz
commented
12 months ago I have been playing with subparts yesterday (trying to make the oscilloscope part with two subparts in the sch view: graph and symbol). I gave up as the inspector pane does not handle well these subparts and because it was difficult to know which signal is which line in the graph if the symbol is not close to the graph (and in sch view you can have net labels).
I noticed that Fritzing makes an item for each subpart. A root item contains all subparts as children. Each subpart item has the BB and PCB view icons not set as they are in the root part. I guess that the inspector should choose the images of the root part (if it exists) instead of the ones from the child item (which are black).
Additionally, I noticed that the properties of a capacitor part (a part using the capacitor class which was designed to allow users to change some properties, e.g., power or knob status of a potentiometer) cannot be changed in the schematic view. I suspect that the inspector pane should again show the properties of the root item instead of the subpart item or maybe change the code so the subparts are also created with a capacitor class.
vanepp
KjellMorgenstern
Current Behaviour
I made someone a new subpart part (detailed in this forum post
https://forum.fritzing.org/t/stereo-potentiometer/4877/7
That turns up a number of cosmetic issues (they don't appear to affect operation!)
here is the part (delete the trailing .zip to keep github happy to get the .fzpz file)
Stereo-POT-subparts.fzpz.zip
and the results
breadboard, the breadboard image is missing in the parts bin but is present in Inspector, but Inspector is missing schematic.
schematic
again a number of issues, missing icons in parts (likely identical to breadboard since it is the same image)
but all three images more or less missing in Inspector. Moving on to the schematic image the bounding boxes for both subparts are wrong. They should be to the edge of the pins (they are in the svg!) but instead are much wider (especially on subpart1!) and subpart1's box truncates (but doesn't block rendering as it normally would) the pin and extends well beyond the part.
pcb
is basically a repeat of schematic with the Inspector icons all missing identically.
Build:
Version 1.0.1 (rcCD-1654-0-8f5f1373 2023-09-06) 64 [Qt 6.4.3]
Operating System:
Windows 10
Steps to reproduce:
see Current Behaviour
Expected Behaviour
The breadboard icon should appear in the parts bin and Inspector should have the correct images for each view. In schematic view the subpart bounding boxes should match the svg (i.e end at the end of the pins.) As noted this doesn't seem to affect operation it is all visual distraction(although the overlarge bounding box will make selection difficult when it overlaps other parts!)