DIY Layout Creator - software for easy drawing PCB, vero and perfboard layouts

[Gilles C]

I tried to desactivate any spyware and antivirus programs I use on my PC and it changed nothing on my PC.

Maybe something was still there, maybe not. I have a well protected PC...

So it's not working for me. And I never had any alarm as you did. So I'm not sure if this is the reason. One thing for sure, you found something.

Gilles

[beer]

did you start DIY-LC after you turned it off ?
otherwise it dos'nt work.

[bancika]

i don't think you can put it on a "White list" programwise , it's a manualy thing the user has to do , i think.

I didn't mean to put it programaticaly on white list, but to advise users to do it manually. I don't think that simple fooling with new proc will do anything...I mean, the same code will be written in exe somewhere and damn thing will find it 

[Gilles C]

did you start DIY-LC after you turned it off ?
otherwise it dos'nt work.

Yes, and I tried a last time after shutting off what I could. Still didn't work.

Sorry.

[bancika]

are you sure that AV didn't stay in background. If it has "Disable" option use it instead of shutting it down. Maybe it's DLLs can be active after you turn it down

[Gilles C]

Nah. Doesn't change a thing for me.

It is set-up to warn me of detections anyway, and there's nothing in the logs.

[beer]

Well , i did'nt get any messages either , i just switches the AV off and then it worked.
and nothing in the logs either.

So it was kind of a "lucky strike" 

[bancika]

it's very hard to develop software that ill work everywhere these days. Too many variables, different components, AV and Firewall software standing on your way...

[d95err]

Antivirus problem fixed!

As I said, I submitted the exe file to Sophos, and today I got the following answer:


Hi Erik

please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you. The file DIYLayout.exe that you sent to us for analysis was producing a false-positive report. This should now have been corrected and you should ensure that you have all the latest IDE files applied. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance.

Regards
--
Martin James Elliott
Technical Support Specialist, Sophos


I checked it by reinstalling the DIY Layout creator, and it works without problems!

[bancika]

good news 

[beer]

Hi again ...

Just a thought , bancika , did you think about converting to an other format than XML , to get aruond the AV ?
i use inifiles all the time and as long as they don't get to big (1-200 items) the are quite fast.
and they are easy to work with.

and another , how about making a "user library" where it is possible to make your own components.
maybe make some kind of "fixed" drawing with the leads stretchable.
or just "drop" it and jumper the rest.

Again , i'm just throwing ideas/thoughts out in the open.

Sorry if this has already been discussed , i did'nt read the WHOLE Thread.

[bancika]

I wouldn't use anything else for simple reason: XMLDocument provides very easy access to nodes without need for parsing/writing to XML structure. If I used ini files I'd have to make new structure in memory and write separate Load/Save routines. XMLDoc has SaveToFile an LoadFromFile...very handy

[beer]

well , i'm not familiar with "XMLDocument" , so i would'nt know whats best.

Which version of Delphi are you running ?

[bancika]

Delphi 7 Professional. Believe me, XMLDoc makes things much easier...and those AV companies should really develop little smarter detection engines 

[bancika]

I just uploaded new version. New stuff to try:

• Three different sizes for electrolytes. To mantain compatibility with previous versions older electrolytes are considered Medium sized (just like they were before)
• Changing colors to traces and solder pads. Now PCB layouts can look much better and more colorful

Cheers

[skiraly017]

I just uploaded new version. New stuff to try:

• Three different sizes for electrolytes. To mantain compatibility with previous versions older electrolytes are considered Medium sized (just like they were before)
• Changing colors to traces and solder pads. Now PCB layouts can look much better and more colorful

Cheers

Love the new stuff. Any chance we could get icons for axial electrolytics? I don't know about anyone else but I do use them on some projects. Thanks!

[RLBJR65]

Sweet
I always liked the color traces on TonePad layouts. Makes it easier to do a layout. Also very helpfull when debugging.

Richard

[stm]

Nice additions. The variable-sized electros are great.

There's a small bug in one of the pot shapes.  When you select the pots with the pads "almost in line" four pads are created instead of three.  Two pads are at the same location, thus you actually see three of them.  I verified the four pads are also in the saved file.  The other pot patterns with the pads more spread apart seem to be fine.

[bancika]

thanks 
will be fixed

[markm]

Also,
Seems to be a problem printing PNP now that I just did the update.