Hi, I would like some guinea pigs to check out my slotting / heavy-fying mechanism and tell me what they think of it. It allows you to separate your library of "light" symbols from your library of "heavy" orderable-component symbols.
The changes to the libgeda + gschem sources are too many to mention here. In short, the user-visible new features are: * A new dialog: the Slot Chooser. It allows you to associate a light symbol with any of the available slots in heavy components in your schematic. It also supports arbitrary other actions through a gschemrc-defined scheme function. The idea is to be able to query the component library for as-yet-unplaced components that have slots that support the selected light symbol. * Another new dialog: the Slots Editor [ugh, overloaded name]. It allows you to edit the slot objects (OBJ_SLOT, 'S') in a heavy symbol, so you don't have to do it with vi. I was too tired to implement all the buttons; activating a row in the tree view does work however. * libgeda "inherits" attributes from slot owners into light symbols, so gnetlist still works even though the heavy attributes aren't *really* in the symbol it thinks it's looking at. How to try it out: 1. Clone my geda fork from git://repo.or.cz/geda-gaf/berndj.git 2. Rebuild libgeda, gschem, and symbols. For symbols, you need to ./config.status --recheck && make [install]. My dialogs use libglade if it's available, but should fall back to the generated C code if it isn't. 3. Copy system-gschemrc to your ~/.gEDA/, or just let "make install" put it where it needs to be if you choose. 4. Open examples/random_circuits/common-emitter.sch and follow the instructions on the schematic. Also open symbols/transistor/2N3904-heavy.sym and edit the slots it has (e + shift-T, or Edit > Edit Slots); double click on the single row and add heavy attributes. libgeda will be quite noisy on the console as it spews some debugging info. I'll kill that eventually. I also expect valgrind to be somewhat angry about leaked objects and the like. Thanks in advance for your feedback. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
