gEDA-user: Handling symbol change [WAS: Re: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem]

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Clifton
affect functionality - e.g. pins and attributes. This would allow cosmetic changes not to flag the same degree of warning as functional changes. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Clifton
of inputting that, and PCB layouts are just one way of embodying it. It seems un-warranted to make a schematic file from a data-table when the end output is just the data-table in a different format. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Re: gEDA-user: Solving the light/heavy symbol problem

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Clifton
areas. Inkscape import filters and gstreamer pipelines are two examples I can think of right now. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Clifton
(system installed) libraries might be to prompt the user for another location to save into - including the option to create a new local library for the purpose. Hopefully these extra features will solve some of the problems I have explaining simple footprint creation to new users ;) -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: GL on non-accelerated hardware?

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 02:56 +0200, Levente Kovacs wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:17:34 +0100 Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Anyway, it would be worth testing to check I tested it on my notebook. It has an Atom CPU with an intel GPU. With the GL renderer it can do 7fps. What GPU

Re: gEDA-user: PCB crash on rotating polygons in buffer

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Clifton
(~2006). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description

Re: gEDA-user: PCB crash on rotating polygons in buffer

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Clifton
-root, box); Now fixed with this commit: commit c12cc6f769b5ccc603a75361fae3adc930934506 Author: Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk Date: Thu May 19 18:13:43 2011 +0100 buffer.c: Update polygon r-tree when adding a polygon to the buffer. This resulted in a crash when rotating a buffer

Re: gEDA-user: PCB crash

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Clifton
7a09bb3ab5c20ba1e3f687145000c5f142ed2fa6 Author: Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk Date: Tue May 17 00:56:30 2011 +0100 buffer.c: Fix crash in SmashBufferElement The element is allocated with g_slice_new, so must be free'd with g_slice_free. Broken since commit

Re: gEDA-user: Pressing = key causes PCB to freeze for a few minutes

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Clifton
international keyboards (e.g. Spanish). If we don't ignore it, PCB complains about the key not being tied to an action when it is pressed. From the committer, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk ... Thanks to Gabriel for reporting this and providing the patch for Lesstif. I have updated

Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Clifton
discussion there? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description

Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 15:36 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 12:02 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: Core features in the PCB editor can be pretty complex. We have a lot of code for dealing with polygon geometry, May we consider use of clipping libraries like http

Re: gEDA-user: PCB crash

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Clifton
the above bug's crash into a hang again. however that bug occurs on versions even prior to the 2011-04-30 commit in which the 'test2.pcb' crash was introduced. The hang is back now, and I'll try to figure out what causes it. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department

Re: gEDA-user: Logos and graphics.. [WAS: Re: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?]

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 22:34 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:43:50 +0100 Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: I've not seen PCB crash due to bad pstoedit polygons before though - if you have an example which is reproducible, please send it to me. I just re-tested

Re: gEDA-user: GL on non-accelerated hardware?

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Clifton
acceleration for the non-GL version's rendering calls, for example. Even if the non-GL calls were software drawn, the GL ones are still more complicated. Anyway, it would be worth testing to check. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ

Re: gEDA-user: pcjc2 tessellation

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Clifton
the edges in (winding order), and constructs an r-tree of the edges (to make the contour participate faster in boolean operations) borast_traps_t traps; bo_contour_to_traps(contour, traps); } -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Re: gEDA-user: pcjc2 tessellation

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 22:59 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: On 16/05/11 19:26, Peter Clifton wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:54 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: From pcjc2/src/borast/borast-bentley-ottmann.c, i used some functions to make a small test program to see how bo_contour_to_traps

Re: gEDA-user: pcjc2 tessellation

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Clifton
convex, hole free polygons only, and our are not guaranteed to be. Some clever people are doing more complex polygon rasterisation in GL shaders I believe. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

Re: gEDA-user: PCB crash

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Clifton
: 2ce35292b9e96da38cb56878005aba20891689eb committer: Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk timestamp: Sat 2011-04-30 19:19:22 +0100 message: Convert board objects to GLists of g_slice allocated memory Thanks for the bisect. TBH, I could have guessed with 99% certainty it would be that commit which caused the issue, but I didn't have

Re: gEDA-user: PCB crash

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 00:10 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 15:22 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:10:30 +0200 I bisected the bug and determined it was introduced 2011-04-30 by the following commit: ... I'll try and fix it shortly. Now fixed

Re: gEDA-user: new gschem does look great!!

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Clifton
gschem! I've found it amazing just how more usable programs feel with nicer graphics. Surely it is just psychological though, but it really seems to matter. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA

Re: gEDA-user: PCB GL Memory leak

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Clifton
context or something properly. It could also be a driver issue. What graphics card and driver do you use? (Can be determined quite accurately if you post output from glxinfo and a copy of your /var/log/Xorg.0.log) Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department

Re: gEDA-user: An idea: rework design support...

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Clifton
of a physical PCB layer), but as such, the term is too overloaded for us to use here. What these sub-layers actually do is group drawing primitives so they can be coloured differently. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson

Re: gEDA-user: Pressing = key causes PCB to freeze for a few minutes

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Clifton
the optimiser makes mistakes and causes shorts on my boards! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone

Re: gEDA-user: PCB GL Memory leak

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Clifton
loading the board, with bumps of say 20Meg for every power plane deleted and recreated. Obviously this isn't ideal, but it could possibly explain where your memory usage is going. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

gEDA-user: An idea: rework design support...

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
to support. Bonus points for ability to spit out a list of rework instructions for a technician or board assembly house to follow and tick off as they are made. Comments? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

Re: gEDA-user: An idea: rework design support...

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 09:01 -0500, John Griessen wrote: On 05/13/2011 08:10 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: Comments? Sounds close to the approach of Fritzing, where wiring is documented as literal wires put in a plug-board. Your concept is different only in keeping the as built prototype

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: simple FreeType fonts implementation -- update?

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
dig inside the contents of such container files to track changes in them properly. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

gEDA-user: Software reviews in Ubuntu

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
it in the review! Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc

Re: gEDA-user: An idea: rework design support...

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
of the PCB board. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: simple FreeType fonts implementation -- update?

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
-8 (which probably already works for 99.something% of the cases. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone

Re: gEDA-user: An idea: rework design support

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
on the schematic where you could make the equivalent cut. You may wind up having to redraw the schematic. Netlist extraction from the PCB is possible with a little effort, but I was thinking of a schematic - PCB flow here, not back-annotating board changes to the schematic. -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: One more viewer for gEDA data.

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
into writing the cairo rendering for gschem specifically for us to get nice anti-aliased drawing, I'd love to know what you think is better about these renderings than gschem's native ones. (1.6.x series gschem). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: One more viewer for gEDA data.

2011-05-13 Thread Peter Clifton
, testing or some constructive critics) :) Any suggestions or feature requests are wellcome too. Thank you, Pavlo. Awesome, I know a couple of people who will be really excited by this, and I will make sure they see it. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: Adding inner polygons to a plane

2011-05-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 14:05 +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 19:19 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: Perhaps it would be possible to support a flag on the smaller, clippiING polygon which makes it bully other polygons away from it, EAGLE does this by allowing the user to assign

Re: gEDA-user: pcb+gl minor polygons glitch

2011-05-12 Thread Peter Clifton
issue). Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description

gEDA-user: Logos and graphics.. [WAS: Re: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?]

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
is reproducible, please send it to me. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: strategies for 2-layer polygon planes? (chopped up polygons...)

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
HEAD PCB again. (Admittedly the polygons produced would be pre-clipped exactly to your track routing, so it would be a last export step beyond which you'd not want to do further editing). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ

Re: gEDA-user: Logos and graphics.. [WAS: Re: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?]

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:43 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: I've attached it here in case it helps you get started. (Now attached!) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173

Re: gEDA-user: Hiding individual layers of a layer-group

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
clarity I guess you're looking for, switch to the pcb+gl branch and turn on thin draw polygons. Alternatively, thin draw polygons in git HEAD might still help you. The keyboard short-cut is Ctrl + Shift + P -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: pcb+gl

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
./configure and GL should be enabled as the default. You might need to install your distro's libgtkglext-dev package before it will build. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0

Re: gEDA-user: Hiding individual layers of a layer-group

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 07:16 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2011 13:12:55 +0100 Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 21:41 +1000, Geoff Swan wrote: Hi folks, I've just started using separate layers so for my polygons so that I can hide them when

Re: gEDA-user: Adding inner polygons to a plane

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
like mech-CAD systems in defining geometry based upon a hierarchy of boolean operations. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223

Re: gEDA-user: Adding inner polygons to a plane

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
to rasterise each contour (which doesn't have holes). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask

Re: gEDA-user: pcb+gl

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
ideas? Sorry (Russell is right), I forgot to tell you to cd pcjc2 or whatever directory the repository cloned into. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal

Re: gEDA-user: pcb+gl minor polygons glitch

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
to me? (I presume it may be difficult to screen-shot, but give that a try too). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

Re: gEDA-user: minipack-result -- gerbview

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
of wine were pretty buggy in regards glyphs rendered through pango / cairo. Something these toolkits do is just different than most Windows apps. Running GTK / pango / cairo apps under Windows has always worked correctly to my knowledge. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: autocrop.c vs. pcb (git head)

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
to work together? Edit autocrop.c and change ClearAndRedrawOutput (); to Redraw (); In general, you need to rebuild every plugin when you build a new version of PCB from git. plugins poke internal APIs and data-structures, which do change from time to time. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: autocrop.c vs. pcb (git head)

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 21:29 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Replace it with this: gui-invalidate_all (); More commonly, you would call Redraw (), and draw.c knows this means to poke gui-invalidate_all(), keeping the drawing model details more localised to draw.c and the GUIs. -- Peter

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: polygon hole tool

2011-05-07 Thread Peter Clifton
drawing. But I have already clicked the starting point again. (I also tried Shift-P like the pcb manual suggests for the polygon tool.) Closing works easier if all-direction lines is switched on. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL - now with background image rendering support!

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
versions of things.. I don't expect it will be a pressing concern for some years yet. We'll have to have caught up by the time distros stop shipping support for GTK2.0 though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue

Re: gEDA-user: GL not found compiling pcb on OS X

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
-update-desktop-database I've no idea sorry, but I'd love someone to figure it out! If you just wanted to build PCB (and not test the new bits of GL rendering code), add --disable-gl to the configure options. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

gEDA-user: PCB+GL - now with background image rendering support!

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Clifton
to being able to push the basic 2D portions of PCB+GL into git HEAD. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL - now with background image rendering support!

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 19:46 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: I'm very close to being able to push the basic 2D portions of PCB+GL into git HEAD. I feel like a supporter at the course of a marathon race: Go, Peter. Go! Ok, spurred on by that encouragement, I've tidied

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL - now with background image rendering support!

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 08:09 +1000, Stephen Ecob wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 19:46 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: I'm very close to being able to push the basic 2D portions of PCB+GL into git

Re: gEDA-user: Which LibGD am I missing?

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Clifton
but there was no installation candidate. Any help appreciated! Either libgd2-xpm-dev or libgd2-noxpm-dev should to the trick. On my Natty box, I need the xpm version - the noxpm version forces an uninstall of other things. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department

Re: gEDA-user: PCB gcode generation

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 14:33 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 01.05.2011 um 03:18 schrieb Peter Clifton: As a feature request which came from that discussion, it seems that it might be nice to provide the option of special casing the handling of outline layers. The expected convention

Re: gEDA-user: Bug: Screenupdate on moving selected objects

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Clifton
it. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: gEDA-user: Bug: Screenupdate on moving selected objects

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 22:16 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 22:55 +0200, Felix Ruoff wrote: Hello! Since commit e323e4636ef7b7239003a41ba305221bc6d9bab1 'hid/gtk: Invalidate the damaged region, not the whole view' there is an error on moving selected objects

Re: gEDA-user: Out and In symbols in gschem getting net names to come out in PCB

2011-05-01 Thread Peter Clifton
quite keen to see John Dotty's suggestion (or a variant of it) implemented though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

Re: gEDA-user: PCB gcode generation

2011-04-30 Thread Peter Clifton
-structures and APIs they use). The scope we are working on is everything which can be built and tested from PCB's build system. We can't commit to providing patches for external plugins or patch series. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department

Re: gEDA-user: PCB gcode generation

2011-04-30 Thread Peter Clifton
. (One polygon per board). The gcode exporter then produced output suitable for cutting the boards out (using EMC2 to handle the tool offset etc..). Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3

Re: gEDA-user: Segfault in pcb when exporting (latest branch)

2011-04-23 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 21:56 +1000, Geoff Swan wrote: pcjc2/pcb+gl_experimental confirmed Now fixed in git HEAD.. I'm just rebasing the pcb+gl branches now. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3

Re: gEDA-user: zview/ngscope

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Clifton
-- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: gEDA-user: PCB nanometer conversion

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Clifton
towards a slightly different rendering API, general fixes. For preference, if you can avoid pull and merge, but rebase patches, that would probably make for a cleaner and easier to review diff set. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Clifton
). It might be worth trying to revert the GTK it builds against to 2.16.x -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Clifton
=70786c0c18c8d2c4626d429068e88a4601a21d6d Perhaps this was applied after the last release. (Sorry, no time to check right now!) You might have more luck building git HEAD PCB? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Clifton
. That's not a very compelling criterion; on my spanish keyboard: People put up with / in UNIX paths, so I think it will do for gEDA as well ;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729

Re: gEDA-user: pcb-20100929 released

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Clifton
) For a development release, you would need to run ./autogen.sh or autoreconf in the pixman source dir to generate ./configure -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal

Re: gEDA-user: Where is pcb-20100929 for Win32 ?

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Clifton
. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: gEDA-user: Parallel Installation of Stable and Unstable gEDA Version

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Clifton
installed versions into one path would also help. Finally, since the stable release and devel release have different SO versions for libgeda, the library is in principle co-installable, but the shared scheme code etc.. won't be. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: Parallel Installation of Stable and Unstable gEDA Version

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:22 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:59:06 +0100 Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Beware that pcb and geda only play nice when installed into the same prefix, so you will want to install PCB into both places you install gEDA. Perhaps some

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Clifton
value attribute to 100R# (Where X1, X2, R1 are id names. These might default from refdes= attributes where they are unique, and belong to a complex). Note that id attributes in CSS are explicitly unique, whereas our refdes= attributes historically are not required to be. -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Clifton
; } That is ancestory. It would also match P/foo/bar/EM/ If you want just P/EM, you need: P EM { background: yellow; } or PEM { background: yellow; } -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 22:26 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: pin[pinnumber=1] { pinnumber=99; } And regarding stuff like the above - where we key off one attribute and change it in the rule, IF that is ever legal - we should do it like a PLC executes its processing cycles. Freeze a view

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Clifton
. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Russell Dill wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:45 PM, John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: I would advise a note of caution. In general, I don't like it when tools start special casing things like

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 22:35 +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:25:19PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: What about the cases where this is a mistake? The net= attribute was supposed to refer to some implicit power pin - not the device's one symbolic pin

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Clifton
cares about really. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Powerand Port Symbols

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Clifton
;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
- I have a branch lurking about which emits SVG onto the clipboard when copy+pasting within gschem. That lets you paste from gschem straight into Inkscape. The net and pin end-cues aren't quite right with it though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department

Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 08:18 +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote: Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk writes: Is it really the layer order, or the group order that PCB+GL or Ben-mode uses? The group numbering - and I don't see any reason why we can't stipulate that is the rendering sequence. -- Peter

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
preferred) PDF. I'm getting used to the amazing ease with which tools like Inkscape can open PS and PDF files, then edit them as vector graphics. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
preferred) PDF. I'm getting used to the amazing ease with which tools like Inkscape can open PS and PDF files, then edit them as vector graphics. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 20:55 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: What excuse is there for OpenOffice / LibreOffice being so appallingly bad at working with SVG files? Actually, SVG import is among the first features of libreoffice beyond openoffice: http

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
. If there is any time you're going to be around in Cambridge anyway, please let me know. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
files for pasting into OpenOffice (from gschem's clipboard). I can't recall what it failed to convert properly, but it was something ;). Each converter I tried to get into OpenOffice messed something up. Usually it was related to text handling. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division

Re: gEDA-user: Attribute Net (without pin assignment) - for Power and Port Symbols

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Clifton
whether power rail symbols transfer a name to nets they are attached to. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab

Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?

2011-04-10 Thread Peter Clifton
useless for that. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description

Re: gEDA-user: RFC using SVG with semantic markup as an EDA format

2011-04-10 Thread Peter Clifton
in copper. That means we need to act intelligently if something adds those. Supporting complex geometry primitives which SVG would bring also means internal processing in PCB might get more difficult. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

gEDA-user: Change the subject line! [WAS: Re: zview/ngscope]

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Clifton
. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Isolated snippets of ground planes in the middle

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Clifton
that PCB will not track the connectivity of the remaining pieces properly, and this can lead to all manner of badness. My pours branch attempts to address this, but as I started it before I knew of the fullpoly flag, I've not yet made the changes in behaviour conditional on that flag. -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: Modding Nintendo 3DS controllers for accessability

2011-04-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 10:09 -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 05:54:36PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: i recently got a nintendo 3ds, and really enjoying the 3d of the games but my issue is because i can only use my right hand, using the controller is difficult. i'm

gEDA-user: Modding Nintendo 3DS controllers for accessability

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Clifton
of action - is it press-able, or a multi-axis in some way? Any pointers would be appreciated so I can pass them on. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173

Re: gEDA-user: Interpreter for automation schematics

2011-03-30 Thread Peter Clifton
copy a component with a refdes already set. You hook it up with this in your gschemrc: (load-from-path /home/pcjc2/.gEDA/unnumber-refdes.scm) (add-hook! copy-component-hook unnumber-refdes) Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: zview

2011-03-30 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 20:30 -0700, A.Burinskiy wrote: Dear gEDA community, I publish program on sourceforge.org that displays ngspice raw files. Project name is zview. Appreciate any feedback. Do you have a link, or screenshots? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division

Re: gEDA-user: Interpreter for automation schematics

2011-03-30 Thread Peter Clifton
the source code is the only way to be sure, but I am not even sure what to suggest looking for off the top of my head. I'm hoping someone who knows the guile integration better than I do will chime in. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9

Re: gEDA-user: Interpreter for automation schematics

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Clifton
a small program against libgeda to do what you want, but you'd have to give me more information about what the logic of your processing steps are to make any more solid a suggestion. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ

Re: gEDA-user: Interpreter for automation schematics

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:18 +0200, John Erlandsson wrote: Hello! Thanks for taking an interest! I attached two schematics that illustrates what i want. Could you run them through gschlas -e ... to embed the symbols used, or attach the missing symbols? -- Peter Clifton Electrical

gEDA-user: Any open EtherCAT designs?

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Clifton
regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) signature.asc Description

Re: gEDA-user: US Distributor for Balloon Board

2011-03-27 Thread Peter Clifton
if I can purchase from someplace in the US. FWIW, the people behind Balloon (whilst using Altium for the core design), are very supportive of gEDA and the idea that designs around the Balloon platform should use open EDA tools where possible. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division

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