Hi Tomaz,

On Monday 04 September 2006 20:41, Tomaz Solc wrote:
> > Would you please share your ideas?
>
> The thing I miss most is the possibility to select the scope of
> searching for numbers that already exist.
>
> Currently you can select which objects you want to renumber
> (selected, current sheet, all sheets), however regardless of this
> selection the automatic renumbering always skips numbers that already
> exist anywhere on the sheet.
>
> This prevents you from automatically numbering nets in a bus (which
> is as far as I know currently the only way to use buses in gschem)
> because in this case you have at least two objects (nets) with the
> same number on a sheet.

Mmhh. That true, how would you name that option?
  [ ] ignore existing numbers
as a checkbutton? It would be easy to implement it.

> I couple of times I could also use a "remove numbers" option.

> Then I would like to replace the "sort order" pull-down menu with
> some icons, because I never know what "top-down" and "left-right"
> means and I usually have to try it to see.

Never had problems with it, so far.

Try out the text alignment pulldown. It's a little bit more confusing.
Anyone likes to create a 3x3 ratio button ;-)

[...]

> > two new options:
> > --> automatic slotting (no code yet to use that option)
> > --> page by page numbering vs. uniq numbering in the whole
> > hierarchy
>
> This is similar to idea I described above.

Yeah that's true, a third option page_by_page, uniq_in_hierarchy and 
selection_only may solve that issue easily.

> > Smaller improvements:
> > The dialog keeps its entries if closed and reopened (Karel
> > requested this some time ago ;-)
>
> This was also on my wish-list :)

[...]

> > My code is currently in a messy state and in an older cvs file
> > tree. Maybe I'll find some time to clean it up this weekend and
> > make it availlable. I'm currently a bit lazy ;-)
[...]

> I think it would be great it we could adapt your code to the current
> CVS version. It looks like you already added a lot of useful
> features.

I'll try to merge it (without the autoslotting code) that weekend.

regards
Werner


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