Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 17:54:19 John Griessen wrote: > >> What do you think of adding hierarchic schematics that handle instances of >> subschematics so they are autonumbered, generate a good flat netlist with >> long names, and support embedded verilog chunks? > > Good idea. Actually, the big problem here is allowing attributes to have > different values depending on context.
Are you meaning the context of an instance of a symbol in a drawing, or turning a reference like 0:4 into a list of instances like 0,1,2,3,4 where you come across the text inside a symbol? > > This is a non-trivial problem (I've recently been working on datastructures & > algorithms that might allow it to work). > > The biggest problems are: > > - the current assumption that each text object has only one possible value > > - the lack of a defined "project" concept that would make it easier to "look > up" what the current value to display would be. We could benefit multiple ways from making a spec for a project. So we can use that info. John G -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
