Re: gEDA-user: Speaker SPICE modeling with gschem and ng-spice/gnucap

2011-09-13 Thread al davis
On Monday 12 September 2011, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote: Is it possible to do same thing? Input wav to simulator and get speaker's output and hear it? I know it's not perfect but it could be very helpful. Has someone done this before and provide some hints, examples or links? If you can do some

Re: gEDA-user: Speaker SPICE modeling with gschem and ng-spice/gnucap

2011-09-13 Thread michalwd1979
Hello Hannu, I have a python module that can reads ngspice data and export arbitrary vector to PWL source. I'm using it for quite long time. If You have any questions then please let me know. I remember that I was using it to auto optimize a circuit: run ngspice from python, import it's data,

gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread BAXENDALE P.R.
I've built a cygwin version of geda/gaf 1.6.2 and pcb and combined it, rather crudely, with the necessary cygwin bits to make it easy to install on a Windows PC. It's really intended for my students to use, but I've put it in [1]http://www.dur.ac.uk/peter.baxendale/stuff/gEDA/ in

Re: gEDA-user: Speaker SPICE modeling with gschem and ng-spice/gnucap

2011-09-13 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:54:26 -0700 From: russ.d...@asu.edu To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Speaker SPICE modeling with gschem and ng-spice/gnucap Here's the spice raw reader that jpd and Hannu are both missing out on:

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:12:26 +0100 BAXENDALE P.R. peter.baxend...@durham.ac.uk wrote: I've built a cygwin version of geda/gaf 1.6.2 and pcb and combined it, rather crudely, with the necessary cygwin bits to make it easy to install on a Windows PC. It's really intended for my students to use,

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
I've built a cygwin version of geda/gaf 1.6.2 and pcb and combined it, rather crudely, with the necessary cygwin bits to make it easy to install on a Windows PC. Don't forget that you need to distribute the geda and cygwin sources with your binaries. Yes, it's a pain, but yes, you

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
That's great! How coincidental that I just opened up my mail client to post to the list about how I could not find a Windows build of gEDA! I want to recommend gEDA to colleagues and online contacts, but unless I can point them to a one-click Windows download, gEDA won't be considered --

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Dan Roganti
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Colin D Bennett [1]co...@gibibit.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:12:26 +0100 BAXENDALE P.R. [2]peter.baxend...@durham.ac.uk wrote: I've built a cygwin version of geda/gaf 1.6.2 and pcb and combined it, rather crudely, with the necessary

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Paddock
I want to recommend gEDA to colleagues and online contacts, but unless I can point them to a one-click Windows download, gEDA won't be considered -- it'll surely be KiCad or (grimace) EAGLE. You didn't notice my posting last week about my nightly geda-for-windows builds?  Or that a big part

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Unless something has change that I'm unaware of, the Windows build of PCB does not print at all (you have to export PostScript to the That hasn't changed, but Peter has cairo-printing patches in the works. nor does it handle the library paths correctly. Seems to work OK for me. I'll get

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread John Doty
On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Dan Roganti wrote: I noticed that the Mac is also supported, but it's practically a given since it's basically uinx underneath. The difference between Windows and Mac here is that Charles Lepple has routinely packaged new releases for Fink on MacOSX, while

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Baxendale
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 06:30 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: I want to recommend gEDA to colleagues and online contacts, but unless I can point them to a one-click Windows download, gEDA won't be considered -- it'll surely be KiCad or (grimace) EAGLE. It's a one click download but remember its

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Nobody has stepped forward to do this as a routine job for each new release of gEDA on Windows. Yes, I have. Peter and I have been working on the details, but I've been doing automated builds of geda for windows for a while now. I just haven't advertised them much because we're still testing

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 11:17 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Unless something has change that I'm unaware of, the Windows build of PCB does not print at all (you have to export PostScript to the That hasn't changed, but Peter has cairo-printing patches in the works. Specifically, I have a patch

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:42:12 -0400 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: I've built a cygwin version of geda/gaf 1.6.2 and pcb and combined it, rather crudely, with the necessary cygwin bits to make it easy to install on a Windows PC. Don't forget that you need to distribute the

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:44:21 -0400 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: That's great! How coincidental that I just opened up my mail client to post to the list about how I could not find a Windows build of gEDA! I want to recommend gEDA to colleagues and online contacts, but unless

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread John Doty
On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:53 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: Nobody has stepped forward to do this as a routine job for each new release of gEDA on Windows. Yes, I have. Peter and I have been working on the details, but I've been doing automated builds of geda for windows for a while now. I just

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
So is mingw-based better so the user doesn't have a huge cygwin installation in their c:\cygwin? It would be nice to have a more self-contained install. The PCB installer is only 9 MB but I haven't tried stripping out debug information yet. The only other executable pcb needs is one to set

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
OK, so you and Peter intend to take on the additional burden of routinely packaging for Windows? The plan is to automate it so that there is no burden, aside from the usual dealings with bug reports, but that's no more than what we do for other platforms. I think you misread the mailing

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread John Doty
On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: How much Unix tools does gEDA really need to run? Just the Scheme interpreter? Optional tools need a variety of support, e.g. Perl for refdes_renum, Python for tragesym. To participate in gedasymbols.org, you need CVS, and some of the

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Dan Roganti
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:44 AM, DJ Delorie [1]d...@delorie.com wrote: That's great! How coincidental that I just opened up my mail client to post to the list about how I could not find a Windows build of gEDA! I want to recommend gEDA to colleagues and online contacts,

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
But I would think to look at the main site, www.gpleda.org, for any kind of announcements I know, and I've chosen not to make them *that* widely known yet. We're planning a PCB release this weekend, hoping to have an official windows installer for PCB at that point. On other small thing, why

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread BAXENDALE P.R.
Don't forget that you need to distribute the geda and cygwin sources with your binaries. Yes, it's a pain, but yes, you have to do it. The gEDA sources are in the zip, but I forgot about the cygwin ones. I'll take a look at how much time it would take to include them, otherwise

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:43:46 -0600 John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote: On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: How much Unix tools does gEDA really need to run? Just the Scheme interpreter? Optional tools need a variety of support, e.g. Perl for refdes_renum, Python for

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: http://www.delorie.com/pcb/geda-windows/ Well, I wasn't looking for a Windows build at the moment when you sent that message, Note, that this build contains a potential show-stopper for PCB: At least on winXP it fails to zoom. See

Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Geoff Swan wrote: +1 I think it unlikely that a gEDA wiki would be targeted. It is very likely to be targeted by semi clever spam bots. I administrate a couple of wikis. Plain, anonymous write accesss had to be disabled because they caught spam bots trying to distribute their spew after a few

gEDA-user: How to disable specific hooks?

2011-09-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Some hooks of gschem are hooked in by default in system-gschemrc. Most of these are fine. But some don't mix well with my style of schematics (e.g. autoplace-object-attributes) Is there a way to unhook these short of editing system-gschemrc? I thought about overloading with some kind of NOP

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Dave McGuire
On Tue, September 13, 2011 1:54 pm, DJ Delorie wrote: On other small thing, why are the links split across a couple of websites for the same project ? PCB, gEDA, and gerbv (etc) are not the same project. I keep trying (in person even!) to explain that to Dan. ;) If Dan can (repeatedly)

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho
From: j...@noqsi.com Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:16:45 -0600 To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools OK, so you and Peter intend to take on the additional burden of routinely packaging for Windows? Above and beyond

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Note, that this build contains a potential show-stopper for PCB: At least on winXP it fails to zoom. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/843577 Might be worth retrying; since then we've bumped the gtk version. Zoom works fine for me in Win7.

Re: gEDA-user: How to disable specific hooks?

2011-09-13 Thread Jared Casper
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Some hooks of gschem are hooked in by default in system-gschemrc. Most of these are fine. But some don't mix well with my style of schematics (e.g. autoplace-object-attributes) Is there a way to unhook these

Re: gEDA-user: howto toporoute?

2011-09-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: Webarchive has a copy at 13 Septembre, 2010. I hope it helps: http://web.archive.org/web/20100913034623/http://anthonix.resnet.scms.waikato.ac.nz/toporouter/ Thanks. Unfortunately, the site contains nothing about usage and parameters. However, I found by trial and

Re: gEDA-user: How to disable specific hooks?

2011-09-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Jared Casper wrote: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Hook-Reference.html Looks like there is a remove-hook! function, or just reset-hook! and start over with what you want. Thank you for the pointer! I tried reset-hook! and it did the job. ---)kaimartin(--- --

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Paddock
nor does it handle the library paths correctly. Seems to work OK for me. I just downloaded the 20110913 snap shot. Fired up PCB. First thing I got was: Windows cannot open this file: ListLibraryContents.sh. Hardly the glowing introduction to a good Windows port. 'Cancel' that then go

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
First thing I got was: I meant, if you open the library window, it's got the newlib parts in there. I knew the m4 stuff wouldn't work, that's why we converted everything. A few bugfixes in the converter and we can stop using m4 at runtime completely. File - Preferences - Library - Add a

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Paddock
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:55 PM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: First thing I got was: I meant, if you open the library window, Aren't those two different issues? File - Preferences - Library - Add a library path then Restart program for changes to take effect. This is how it works

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Before a Windows Port takes up a prominent spot on any gEDA et.al. Home Page these are the issue I know that need to be fixed: Feel free to verify these and file bug reports for them. I'm pretty sure I'll forget the details over time. ___

Re: gEDA-user: reasons for wikibook (was: plugins)

2011-09-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:24:57 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: +1 I think it unlikely that a gEDA wiki would be targeted. It is very likely to be targeted by semi clever spam bots. I administrate a couple of wikis. Plain, anonymous write accesss

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:36:25 +0100 BAXENDALE P.R. peter.baxend...@durham.ac.uk wrote: Don't forget that you need to distribute the geda and cygwin sources with your binaries. Yes, it's a pain, but yes, you have to do it. The gEDA sources are in the zip, but I forgot about the cygwin

Re: gEDA-user: howto toporoute?

2011-09-13 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 22:53 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Seems like the toporouter would need more than just GUI integration and user accessible parameters to become a viable option. :-| Sure -- in one of the last postings the author told us, that one year fulltime work ($50k) is

Re: gEDA-user: cygwin geda tools

2011-09-13 Thread DJ Delorie
You don't have to put the sources in the same ZIP file as the binary, do you? You can provide a source archive in the same download directory, right next to the binary download. Right, same directory (even just same server) is fine. ___ geda-user