2.8 SPI LCD part creation help

December 6, 2019, 8:59 pm

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Thanks, but your fix didn’t work, and I deleted the file without taking a screenshot of the new problem. You did fix the small font problem, but in the process, the other font (that I duplicated to make the one you fixed) became super sized and it’s color was changed to black.

So naturally, I opened your file in inkscape and looked over the xml to see if I could fix the new problem and what changes were made by you. Seemed like no matter what I tried to fix the problem, the other text was affected. in Inkscape that is. I went back to my file, deleted the duplicated text and created a new text object to replace it. That solved the problem.

Not really sure why that was a problem this time around, as I have duplicated text before in inkscape and it’s never caused a problem before.

Anyway, thanks to your help, I now have the part all pretty looking and working in fritzing, but I want to check the .pdf exports with the real part. Now how good is exporting a .pdf from fritzing and printing it? In the case of this part, it appears good, but I noticed a problem with another part I created…

Thanks,
Randy

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December 6, 2019, 9:10 pm

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I find Inkscape to be quirky. I keep a copy of preference.xml from the installation and when it goes weird (such as deciding to make a copy as an image rather than xml) I replace preference.xml with the version from install and that usually fixes the problem. I assume something changed (possibly something I did via a keyboard hotkey by mistyping) and it just sometimes stops working correctly. About pdf expoert, as far as I know it works most of the time (I haven’t used it though) I usually use the gerber export which sometimes has problems with paths (i.e. pcb view looks fine but gerber output is wrong.) Kjell has fixed at least 5 bugs in gerber export in the development version (but so far you need to build that from source I believe.)

Peter

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December 7, 2019, 5:14 am

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Hoi folks
I have downloaded Fritzing last week the first time and habe already paid.
Is there a possibility to donload without paying again?
regards
Chris

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December 8, 2019, 2:52 am

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Create an account and you will have an option “I have already paid”

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December 8, 2019, 5:57 am

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HI.
I wonder if someone is able to create a part for me?
The part I`m looking for is the: LILYGO® TTGO T-Call V1.3 ESP32 (ESP32 sim800l)

I have created some of the layers for the connectors etc in a psd file if that helps.
Let me know and I will PM this on facebook or mail.

I am actually willing to pay for it if it works in Fritzing.

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December 8, 2019, 11:44 am

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Easy enough to do, but I need some more information. The mechanical drawing has most of the needed dimensions, what is missing (and required) is the positioning of the header connectors from the end of the board and their spacing (it looks like 1.0 in as the board is 1.1in wide.) If you have a board and can provide the measurements I can make a part (if you like it, feel free to donate what you think it is worth on the Fritzing donation page to fund development)

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the shaky lines in red indicate the required measurements, preferably with vernier calipers, but a ruler will also probably be close enough (the spacing can be adjusted once the part is made to match a real board.)

Peter

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December 8, 2019, 2:58 pm

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Hi.
I have the a PSD (Photoshop) file with all you need to get the measurements. Or I can just upload it to this post as a jpg like the one you have. Please advice.

I am more than happy to donate to Fritzing.

Is there a way to send PM in this forum?

Parts won't drop into editor

December 8, 2019, 4:00 pm

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I have exactly the same problem.

If I execute the Fritzing from command line some additional information appears:

QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
QWaylandShmBuffer: mmap failed (Invalid argument)
qt.svg: Duplicate unique style id: “SVGID_1_”
qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()
qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()
qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate()

The 3 latest messages appear just right after dropping a component into one of the views.

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December 8, 2019, 4:23 pm

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It looks like infinview wil read either so either should be fine.

Yes (although I had to poke to remember how ), click on your icon on the top right then click on the middle icon of the three that come up on the bottom of that window and you are in the messages interface and new message should do it.

Peter

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December 8, 2019, 4:31 pm

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Which Fritzing version and operating system? How was Fritzing installed (if this is linux, did you use an OS supplied package or the tar ball from the Frtizing download site?) The error messages are from Qt which is the graphics platform, and I don’t recognize them, so they may or may not be the cause (alhough they look some what likely in that they look to be making a request for something. The original poster looks to have used sudo for the install which has likely left some files owned by root.

Peter

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December 9, 2019, 7:04 am

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Trouble installing Fritzing on Linux Mint 19.2

December 9, 2019, 9:08 am

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Hi,

I downloaded Fritzing and extracted the tar ball. When I type ./Fritzing to start the program I get the following error:

erik@laptop-erik:~/bin/fritzing-a1ffcea08814801903b1a9515b18cf97067968ae-master-498.bionic.linux.AMD64$ ./Fritzing
/home/erik/bin/fritzing-a1ffcea08814801903b1a9515b18cf97067968ae-master-498.bionic.linux.AMD64/lib/Fritzing: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5SerialPort.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I also tried “./install_fritzing.sh” and “sudo ./install_fritzing.sh” and I also got errors:

erik@laptop-erik:~/bin/fritzing-a1ffcea08814801903b1a9515b18cf97067968ae-master-498.bionic.linux.AMD64$ sudo ./install_fritzing.sh
Copying /etc/mime.types -> /etc/mime.types.bak
Fritzing MIME types already registered!
Copying Fritzing data…
Entering fritzing/

:: INSTALLING IN SYSTEM MODE. IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME!
PLEASE BE PATIENT…

Installing Fritzing MIME types…
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xdg-mime: file ‘icons/x-fritzing-fz.xml’ does not exist
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Setting up default application -> org.fritzing.Fritzing.desktop
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– TASK ENDED SUCCESSFULLY! –
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Installing Fritzing system icons…
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– TASK ENDED SUCCESSFULLY! –
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Making symlinks…
Symlinks already exists! (or linking failed…)
Doing final touch…
grep: uninstall_fritzing.sh: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat ‘uninstall_fritzing.sh’: No such file or directory
sed: can’t read uninstall_fritzing.use: No such file or directory
sed: can’t read uninstall_fritzing.use: No such file or directory
sed: can’t read uninstall_fritzing.use: No such file or directory
sed: can’t read uninstall_fritzing.use: No such file or directory
sed: can’t read uninstall_fritzing.use: No such file or directory
sed: can’t read uninstall_fritzing.use: No such file or directory
Activating uninstall script…
sed: can’t read uninstall_fritzing.use: No such file or directory
Activated!

cp: cannot stat ‘uninstall_fritzing.use’: No such file or directory
Updating databases…
Done!

They made me pay 8€ to download the software and now I’m stuck with shit that does not work. Also proper installation procedure/documentation is lacking. I am a bit disappointed.

Erik

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December 9, 2019, 9:16 am

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OK,

I installed libqt5serialport5 with the command “sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install libqt5serialport5” but still the software is not working.

When I start Fritzing I get the error message:

Sorry, we have a problem with the swapping mechanism.
Fritzing still works, but you won’t be able to change parts properties.Error 1

When I click OK the next error message apears:

Cannot read file screw_terminal_2_3.5mm.fzp:
No such file or directory.

When I click OK the next error apears:

Unable to find the following 157 parts:

I did not include the rest of the message because 157 parts are listed

This is the output of my terminal window:

erik@laptop-erik:~/bin/fritzing-a1ffcea08814801903b1a9515b18cf97067968ae-master-498.bionic.linux.AMD64$ ./Fritzing
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
QSqlDatabase: QSQLITE driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
QSqlDatabase: QSQLITE driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection ‘qt_sql_default_connection’ is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
QSqlDatabasePrivate::addDatabase: duplicate connection name ‘qt_sql_default_connection’, old connection removed.
QSqlDatabase: QSQLITE driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection ‘qt_sql_default_connection’ is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
QSqlDatabasePrivate::addDatabase: duplicate connection name ‘qt_sql_default_connection’, old connection removed.
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open
qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no
QSqlQuery::prepare: database not open

Very Frustrating!!!

Any ideas?

Erik

Trouble installing Fritzing on Linux Mint 19.2

December 9, 2019, 10:02 am

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Please report the install issues on the github site here (where they will be tracked):

That said it looks like the parts repository has not installed correctly. The first thing I would try is start Fritzing and then select breadboard view (any view other than the welcome screen will work) and click Parts->Regenerate parts database. This will process for a while (regenerating the internal database) and then close Fritzing. When you restart Fritzing things may be better. If not then I’d suggest deleting the current install entirely and redoing it from scratch. Since you look to have tried the install with sudo at some point, you may have root owned files that will need to be deleted as root. The uninstall script is not tested nor supported, so your best bet is to remove the Fritzing install directory with a rm -r ~/bin/fritzing-a1ffcea08814801903b1a9515b18cf97067968ae-master-498.bionic.linux.AMD64$ ./Fritzing (or the actual install directory if this isn’t it) and then do a ls -l to make sure it got deleted and there are no root owned files left over from the sudo install attempt. Do the same on the two user directories in

~/Documents/Fritzing/parts
~/.config/Fritzing

again using ls to make sure there are no root owned files present. After that try the install again, it is possible the missing Qt library caused a bad install. The parts are loaded from a gitbub repository and the message about the swapping mechamism not working is usually related to that. I guess I should try an install of 0.9.4 on Linux (I have it running on Windows without problem.) Fritzing development basically died in 2016 and has only restarted in the last few months, this is the first release on an entirely new distribution tool change (and as you noted documentation is lacking in most areas) so problems are not unexpected, at least there is now someone trying to fix them (and the donation is to try and fund continuing development so Fritzing doesn’t die.)

Peter

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December 9, 2019, 2:31 pm

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Hi Peter.
Thank you so much for your help.
I feel a bit stupid because I can not find the donate button or how to.
Please let me know so I can contribute.

You are much faster than me. I will send you the psd when I wake up. I live in Norway it may be some time difference.

I’m looking forward to test the part. This is so cool !
Thanks !

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December 9, 2019, 3:08 pm

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Don’t feel bad, I can’t immediately find the donate button either (it is on the main web site somewhere, although that is running slowly right now). The download button on the main web site does have a donate button, but I think there is another one somewhere too. I’m on the west coast of Canada so there is probably a fair bit of time difference.

Peter

Trouble installing Fritzing on Linux Mint 19.2

December 10, 2019, 6:57 am

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply.

I removed the install directory and the user directories as you stated. I downloaded Fritzing again and unzipped it in /home/erik/fritzing-0.94.

I started the app by running ./Fritzing in this directory and I got the same errors as stated in my reply to my first post. I did not get the error about the libQt5SerialPort.so.5 library because I installed this library manually with “sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install libqt5serialport5”

Also database regeneration did not work. I get the error “Database failure”.

I did not know that Fritzing died in 2016 an development was just restarted a few months ago. I have not used it for a couple of years. Sorry for my harsh words in my first post. It was just an expression of frustration due to the fact that I thought it was still buggy as hell after all these years.

When I report the install issues on the github site can I post a link to this thread in order to not retype the problem in Github?

BTW: The website fritzing.org is regularly not reachable. I get cloudflare “Error 522” and “Error 524” messages.

Erik

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December 10, 2019, 7:43 am

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Peter,

FYI, I filed a bug on the github page.

Erik

Trouble installing Fritzing on Linux Mint 19.2

December 10, 2019, 7:47 am

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Unfortunately it is still buggy after all these years , but there is progress now. I’ve been trying to restart development for the last couple of years without much success, but the credit goes to the Ansler folks who run the Fritzing Fab. their CTO manged to get development restarted although as you see there are still problems.

Yes that should be fine. The development team sometimes reads the forums, but bug tracking occurs on github. For what it is worth (which is probably not much because I have a full Qt development install on my Ubuntu 18.04 box), I just downloaded the 9.4 tar ball unbziped it and ran it without problems on Ubuntu 18.04. The missing QT library is in the lib directory in 0.9.3b but doesn’t seem to be (at least in the same place) in the 0.9.4 tarball. I need to install a clean copy of Ubuntu 18.04 (without QT) and see if it installs properly there. The problem you are having may be version skew in QT libraries, the 0.9.4 release moved up a couple of QT versions, but not to the latest one and you sudo install may have gotten the latest copy of the library, In any case, loading the library is not supposed to be needed, everything required should be in the tar ball, so there may still be a bug somewhere.

Yes, it took me half an hour of getting those messages to log in to post this. The web site has suffered from years of no maintenance too, and has no staging environment, so changes are done on the live web installation by someone entirely new to the installation. My sense (because I’m just an interested helper rather than part of the development team) is that things were much worse than expected when the current team took over and it was a lot more work that expected to restart development (as noted, an entirely new deployment environment, because the previous one was apparently gone.) The web site is thought to have been hit by spambots and thus its mail reputation is so bad that email notifications no longer work (they possibly work on the server end but are discarded as spam on the receiving end.) I see as I finish this that you have reported it on github. Good, that should help as they know more about the deployment than I do.

Peter

Trouble installing Fritzing on Linux Mint 19.2

December 10, 2019, 10:16 am

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Hi Peter,

Thank you for your extensive info.

I installed Linux Mint 19.2 (with latest updates) in a virtual machine. I unzipped Fritzing to the ~/bin diretcory.

erik@mint19-vm01:~/bin/fritzing-0.94$ ./Fritzing
/home/erik/bin/fritzing-0.94/lib/Fritzing: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5PrintSupport.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
erik@mint19-vm01:~/bin/fritzing-0.94$ qmake --version

Command 'qmake' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install qtchooser

erik@mint19-vm01:~/bin/fritzing-0.94$ 

It seems that QT isn’t even installed in a fresh and up to date version of Linux Mint 19.2.

The QT version on my laptop is:

erik@laptop-erik:~$ qmake --version
QMake version 2.01a
Using Qt version 4.8.7 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
erik@laptop-erik:~$ 

Althoug QT5 seems to be installed:

erik@laptop-erik:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ qtchooser -l
4
5
default
qt4-x86_64-linux-gnu
qt4
qt5-x86_64-linux-gnu
qt5
erik@laptop-erik:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$

I begin to have the idea that my problems are due to dependency problems or even the absence of QT.

Erik