On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:07:38 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
>> I'm thinking it would be nice to be able to select a pin in gschem, and
>> have the corresponding pin/pad automagically highlighted in pcb.
>
> If this would work with whole components , this would not only be nice
> but tremendously useful during placement. Currently I work around the
> absence of such a feature by manually type search strings into the find
> dialog of pcb.

I think that's actually pretty easily achievable.  Gschem would need
to have a hook, say, (component-selected-hook OBJECT) with which you
can get guile to send PCB the action Select(ObjectByName, R101) for
example.

>> The other direction is maybe more interesting, but also seems like more
>> work.
>
> What would you need this for?

Back-annotation!


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