Re: gEDA-user: passing parameters to a subckt

2010-04-29 Thread al davis
On Sunday 25 April 2010, kai-martin knaak wrote: 6) Opamps: a) An ideal opamp with essentially infinite amplification, infinite slew rate, zero bias current, no input offset, etc. Here's an op-amp: * Generic op-amp behavioral model .subckt opamp (out+ out- in+ in-) .param

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was Re: gattrib)

2010-04-29 Thread Armin Faltl
A bit more reading and thinking reveals a problem with current gpart: To express the many-to-many relation between parts and symbols it uses a table called device. This is fed by the infamous device attribute in the symbol libraries. There's nothing wrong in the theory of DB-design with it, but

Re: gEDA-user: gpleda.org going down (server move)

2010-04-29 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] If you get a blank page, then it means that DNS hasn't been fully propagated (or if it has, then I've managed to mess something up). DNS seems to have propagated sufficient, so most services should be up and running. Let me know if you see something broken.

gEDA-user: configure script patch

2010-04-29 Thread Justas Poderys
Hi All, I'm using Ubuntu and needed to update geda-gaf, as version in repository is older than latest released. Since RFTM'ing is not my strongest side, spent an hour or so wondering why configure would fail, even though I installed guile-1.8 package. Now it seems trivial that I needed

gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Duncan Drennan
Hi, Is there a way to suppress the command prompt window in the Win32 builds? Does anyone have any idea what causes that artefact to arise? Thanks, Duncan ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread John Doty
On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:40 PM, John Doty wrote: Well, you started out complaining about a 741 model. I'd call that a very rare, obsolete part: I haven't actually seen one in a circuit in over 30 years. I guess it's still in textbooks (read

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread John Doty
On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: Very rare?! I see 741s everywhere. WTF? Different worlds. You make my point. Why is anybody using anything so crummy in the 21st century? John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread timecop
im guessing something related to the geda is a collection of a bunch of random command line scripts and... anyway, i saw it there last time i bothered trying pcb on windows and i was like lol professional. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Duncan Drennan duncan.dren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:01 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: Hi, Is there a way to suppress the command prompt window in the Win32 builds? Does anyone have any idea what causes that artefact to arise? Are you building yourself? Just add the -mwindows flag to the linker command line and the

Re: gEDA-user: configure script patch

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:19 +0300, Justas Poderys wrote: Hi All, I'm using Ubuntu and needed to update geda-gaf, as version in repository is older than latest released. Since RFTM'ing is not my strongest side, spent an hour or so wondering why configure would fail, even though I installed

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread timecop
thats not the window he's talking about. how about actually running the windows build. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:01 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: Hi, Is there a way to suppress the command prompt window in the Win32 builds?

Re: gEDA-user: configure script patch

2010-04-29 Thread John Doty
On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: I think we need to try to be consistent, and adding suggestions for every possible point of failure could be a lot of work. More a FAQ than something that belongs in the code. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Dave McGuire wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:40 PM, John Doty wrote: Well, you started out complaining about a 741 model. I'd call that a very rare, obsolete part: I haven't actually seen one in a circuit in over 30 years. I guess it's still in

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread timecop
How about fixing it then. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 21:23 +0900, timecop wrote: thats not the window he's talking about. Yes it is. how about actually running the windows build. I'm the one who built it! -- Peter Clifton

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Duncan Drennan
Are you building yourself? Just add the -mwindows flag to the linker command line and the console will go away. Fixing up the Makefiles to add $(MINGW_GUI_LDFLAGS) to the gschem_LDFLAGS variables should fix the issue. (And similar for gattrib). Thanks for the help Peter, I'll have a look

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:23 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: Are you building yourself? Just add the -mwindows flag to the linker command line and the console will go away. Fixing up the Makefiles to add $(MINGW_GUI_LDFLAGS) to the gschem_LDFLAGS variables should fix the issue. (And

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 April 2010, Dave McGuire wrote: On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Well, you started out complaining about a 741 model. I'd call that a very rare, obsolete part: I haven't actually seen one in a circuit in over 30 years. I guess it's still in textbooks (read

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread John Doty
On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Russell Shaw wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Dave McGuire wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:40 PM, John Doty wrote: Well, you started out complaining about a 741 model. I'd call that a very rare, obsolete part: I haven't actually seen one in a

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 April 2010, Russell Shaw wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Dave McGuire wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:40 PM, John Doty wrote: Well, you started out complaining about a 741 model. I'd call that a very rare, obsolete part: I haven't actually seen one in a

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 April 2010, John Doty wrote: On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Russell Shaw wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Dave McGuire wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:40 PM, John Doty wrote: Well, you started out complaining about a 741 model. I'd call that a very rare,

Re: gEDA-user: DJGPP, was Re: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread Bob Paddock
gcc 4.4.2 recent enough? Clicking on the link below in Chrome or IE6 is failing my view of Action Of Lease Surprise: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/current/v2gnu/gcc442b.zip I'm shown the contents of the .zip file, rather than starting a transfer of the .zip file with a Left Click. Right

Re: gEDA-user: DJGPP, was Re: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm shown the contents of the .zip file, rather than starting a transfer of the .zip file with a Left Click. Right, the dl directory is for downloading files from *within* the zips. Use the zip picker to find a local HTTP mirror and user-specific installation instructions:

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Dave McGuire
On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:05 AM, timecop wrote: im guessing something related to the geda is a collection of a bunch of random command line scripts and... anyway, i saw it there last time i bothered trying pcb on windows and i was like lol professional. Those last two words that close together

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread Dave McGuire
On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:03 AM, John Doty wrote: Very rare?! I see 741s everywhere. WTF? Different worlds. You make my point. Why is anybody using anything so crummy in the 21st century? Most of them that I see are at least ten years old. That said, they're cheap, readily available

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Dave McGuire
Ok, timecop, you have a serious attitude problem. Just sayin'. -Dave On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:59 AM, timecop wrote: How about fixing it then. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 21:23 +0900, timecop wrote: thats not the

Re: gEDA-user: configure script patch

2010-04-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:19:42 +0300, Justas Poderys j...@seminte.lt wrote: Hi All, I'm using Ubuntu and needed to update geda-gaf, as version in repository is older than latest released. Since RFTM'ing is not my strongest side, spent an hour or so wondering why configure would fail, even

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was Re: gattrib)

2010-04-29 Thread Armin Faltl
Hi, I read some of the SQL files yesterday and just started an attempt to build gparts. The INSTAL file list requirements for building with MySQL and PostgreSQL. The later are present on my machine and I'm used to that DB. Then it's stated, that PostgreSQL is not supported yet. What is

gEDA-user: Microwave simulation

2010-04-29 Thread ignacio . dieguez
Hello, how can i perform scattering S-parameter analysis with gEDA? Can i create a model from a s2p (touchstone) file model? Thanks in advance, Nacho. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was Re: gattrib)

2010-04-29 Thread Armin Faltl
Another strange thing with gparts: in 'sql/mysql/create-basic.sql' one finds: cut ... CREATE TABLE Symbol ( SymbolIDINTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, SymbolPath VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, DeviceIDINTEGER UNSIGNED

Re: gEDA-user: Microwave simulation

2010-04-29 Thread al davis
On Thursday 29 April 2010, ignacio.dieg...@estumail.ucm.es wrote: how can i perform scattering S-parameter analysis with gEDA? Can i create a model from a s2p (touchstone) file model? Nothing with gEDA that does it directly and is ready to go. Your best bet is probably Qucs. It's GUI

Re: gEDA-user: Microwave simulation

2010-04-29 Thread Geoff Swan
Hi, I am very interested to find out what you choose to use for this sort of analysis. I have played a bit with qucs and agree that's a good place to start. Please post back your findings! Geoff On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:08 AM, al davis [1]ad...@freeelectron.net wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread John Doty
On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: What should I replace the obsolete OP220 with? What was it trying to do? That will have a heavy bearing on the replacement choice. Mainly not waste too much power ;-) I used these for a variety of low power, low speed, moderately high

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Duncan Drennan
I've got a patch ready for testing (attached), and if you can confirm it works, I'll push it to git HEAD once Ales declares the servers are ready for use again. Working as expected - thanks for that. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-29 Thread Jim
John Doty wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: Very rare?! I see 741s everywhere. WTF? Different worlds. You make my point. Why is anybody using anything so crummy in the 21st century? Perhaps, like me they have a pile of them. I'm staring at about 25 of

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] I've got a patch ready for testing (attached), and if you can confirm it works, I'll push it to git HEAD once Ales declares the servers are ready for use again. git on the new server should be ready for use now (all repositories). Please report any issues, cause I probably