Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns ? - ID: 3114991

2010-12-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
In any case, it seems to me that the user should get an error message (from spice-sdb) in this case, as an explicit ? here means that the user has neither set the attribute to something useful nor deleted it as irrelevant. So what you are saying is that you think we should get rid of the WTF?

Re: gEDA-user: Question about using slots in .sym files

2010-12-17 Thread Ethan Swint
On 12/16/2010 10:31 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Select one of them and do Edit-Slot. Change the slot and the pin numbers will change too. I always make the slot a visible attribute, both name and value, to make it a bit more obvious that it is a slotted part. Also - watch out if you auto-assign

Re: gEDA-user: Erroneous rats added to PCB

2010-12-17 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 23:06 -0500, Peter Laurich wrote: Hi Peter and DJ, Sorry for being off-line for a while. Thanks very much for sorting this one out. I was going to fire up the debugger tomorrow to see if I could figure it out. Now I can go back to my layout task. Cheers, No

Re: gEDA-user: Question about using slots in .sym files

2010-12-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Ethan Swint wrote: I always make the slot a visible attribute, both name and value, to make it a bit more obvious that it is a slotted part. Me too. It is intuitive to edit the visible slot number in gschem. Usually, I also make pin numbers visible on slotted symbols to aid debugging.

Re: gEDA-user: get-package-attribute sometimes returns ? - ID: 3114991

2010-12-17 Thread John Doty
On Dec 17, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: So what you are saying is that you think we should get rid of the WTF? function in the code, but not modify the symbol library? I think there's nothing wrong with file=? in the symbols. It indicates that the you have failed to supply a

gEDA-user: Hierarchy Refdes and Component Values

2010-12-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have a schematic with seven instances of a schematic, a hierarchy. I want to give different values to the resistors in each of the sub-circuits. For example, I have S1 thru S7. In S1, I want R1=100, in S2, I want R1=1k, etc. Is this possible with hierarchy? How do the components in the

Re: gEDA-user: Hierarchy Refdes and Component Values

2010-12-17 Thread John Doty
On Dec 17, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have a schematic with seven instances of a schematic, a hierarchy. I want to give different values to the resistors in each of the sub-circuits. For example, I have S1 thru S7. In S1, I want R1=100, in S2, I want R1=1k, etc. Is

Re: gEDA-user: Hierarchy Refdes and Component Values

2010-12-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
John Doty wrote: For example, I have S1 thru S7. In S1, I want R1=100, in S2, I want R1=1k, etc. Is this possible with hierarchy? No. But it would be neat if it would. Maybe the code for the slotting mechanism could be reused to achieve the trick. You can make a script with AWK,

gEDA-user: 200 bugs, warts and feature requests

2010-12-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Hi. When I do projects, schedule is usually a bit tight and I can't afford to dive into every issue I stumble on the way. So I make a quick note in my digital notebook zim. This may be bugs, little ideas for better usability, or issues with certain not so brilliant features. Of course, most

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter VERY slow?

2010-12-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Anthony Blake wrote: But I do find it rather discouraging the number of people (unfortunately a vocal majority) who are actively hostile How loud do I have to SHOUT to make you not noticing these fellows? ;-) Honestly, in my humble opinion a fully functional the topo would put geda/pcb way