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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:38:11 -0300
From: John Coppens <john AT jcoppens DOT com>
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:04:37 -0800
Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com> wrote:

> At least if you are using a recent pcb version.  What version are
> you using?  You can do:
>    ChangeDrillSize(SelectedPins, 1.1mm)
>    ChangeDrillSize(SelectedPins, 32mil)
> etc., which I find cleaner and less typing than supplying the units
> as a separate argument.

Thanks for the info! Learned something new...

> 
> > The motive I dislike using commands is that I already had more
> > than ten crashes on calling the dialog (pressing ':'... See
> > previous in this same thread).
> 
> That's odd.  First, I don't get a dialog when I press ':', but just
> a combo box “Enter command: [      ]” which replaces the pcb status
> bar.  Second, I have never had pcb crash on pressing ':'.  What
> version are you using?  Is it the GTK HID?

Yes, its the GTK HID... And ':' does produce a new window with the
dropdown and the command index.

And I suspect some kind of timing problem (last time I said a 'race
condition' I had too many reactions) which produces the crash.

John