On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:52:57 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Which version of PCB do you use? I'm looking at the GTK HID, and can't
> "find" a find window ;)
Actually it is the dialog you get via select-by-name. This kind of action
is called "find" in all standard applications I know. Why not call it
like that (and define [ctrl-f] as an accel?
> Unfortunately, in the general case, a refdes=... in gschem doesn't
> necessarily correspond to the final PCB refdes. (Certainly not in the
> case of hierarchical designs).
I know. My current project involves several sub sheets. However, this
could be fixed in a semi automatic way. I, the designer, know, which
prefix a the components of a particular sub sheet get. I could enter this
string in a dedicated field of the proposed search string creation dialog.
This would even allow for the more complex case, where a sub sheet is
sourced several times.
> Do you use xgsch2pcb?
Not yet. I got used to work entirely on the command line after
disappointing experience with the late geda project manager. However, I
am no command line zealot. Could give xgsch2pcb a try. Is it supposed to
work with existing projects? Last time I looked only casually at it.
Just discovered the git repository
--> download the source
--> compiled fine :-)
On start-up I get:
Warning: Failed to load gettext translations
Seems to be harmless, though.
When I tried to start a new project, gsch2pcb complained about a missing
templates directory. Is this ok?
Couldn't list templates directory
Where should the template dir be located? What should it contain?
First impressions:
* Nice, clean GUI
* No menu bar :-|
* No pop-up help for the buttons. No caption to the buttons either. This
is ok, as it is a general setting of my gnome environment. However, I was
able to guess their meaning anyway ;-)
* schematics and pcb load ok. :-)
* I can't do copy-paste between different gschem windows.
For more comments, I'll have to do some real work with gsch2pcb...
---<(kaimartin)>---
PS: According to http://geda.seul.org/tools/xgsch2pcb/index.html
the current xsch2pcb version is 0.1.0 --> Might need an update...
--
Kai-Martin Knaak
http://lilalaser.de/blog
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