[Magic-dev] Magic stacked contact bug...

R. Timothy Edwards tim at opencircuitdesign.com
Sat May 17 14:06:01 EDT 2008


Dear Philippe,

> The second bug is more insidious.  If you move a stack of three contacts 
> more than once, the middle contact is dropped.  This occurs if you move 
> something diagonally, as the move has to be done with two separate 
> "Manhattan" moves.  (I don't know if stacks of four or more are affected 
> as I haven't been working with a techfile that had that many stackable 
> contacts lately.)

Not to sound like I'm trying to make excuses for the bug (which I
intend to track down and fix), but you *can* do, e.g., "move nw 10"
to perform a diagonal move in one step.

					---Tim

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