On Tuesday 13 May 2008 08:29:07 pm Julian wrote: > Yes, we just recently split out the GUI/project reading/writing > stuff and created a shared library with the "meat" of the gerber > parsing/exporting/rendering/editing code. If you end up needing a > program with some special gerber needs, it might actually be the best > method for you to write a custom program and link to the libgerbv > library. Things like file loading and parsing, extents calculations > (for figuring out how big a board is), merging, and exporting is all
Beautiful! Really the better part of my wishlist and precisely what I was thinking of. > doable through libgerbv now. One caveat: documentation is currently > limited to reading through the code of the gerbv GUI portion (main.c, > interface, render, etc)... I'm working on better docs now. I would be more than happy to add to documentation as much as I am able - with the caveat that it make take a little time as I am flat out slammed busy the next couple few months. But, I will probably be making notes to myself anyway so its not much more to make it useful for others (he said ..). <snip> > confuse some software that isn't used to it. Although I would imagine > most software should be able to handle extra G01 commands and simply > ignore their redundancy. Again, please let us know if this isn't the I will defininitely keep an eye out - and there may be a few BatchPCB people that would be willing to test some of the output at some point; they run alot of different platforms and I got lots of nice response just to a little beta testing of the web-based parser. I'll make a note of it as something we might be able to do in future. In fact, when I make over the site a little later this summer, I want to add a section on free software that can be used - I think encouraging this sort of testing and general participation will fit very nicely there. Cheers, -- erik -- Erik Winn BatchPCB.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
