Hi DJ and all, I was in the process of writing an Autodesk AutoCAD dxf device driver (and looking into a Barco dpf device driver) when I learned of your HID concept.
Since then my "device drivers to be" went at a simmer ;-( at least until I know what's up ahead (the pcb code base was in flux with the gtk GUI at that time). I could try to lend you a hand since current gerber and ps/eps drivers do look not that difficult/complicated (with a superficial look, that is). I took the gerber device driver as an example for the dxf driver. I was at that point also coding a pcb2dxf standalone converter (as in gschem2pcb), just to see if I could. My background is electrical/mechanical engineering with a beginners knowledge of coding in C. At the moment I don't have a reliable linux system running with an internet connection (my wife needs the connection for teleworking under windoze, and my employer forbids linux (bummer)). Looking forward to your response. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of DJ Delorie Sent: maandag 31 oktober 2005 17:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gEDA: PCB fork to operate under the Tcl/Tk interpreter > Maybe it's time to split up development (different GUI-teams and > _one_ single "engine"-team) in the further development of PCB, and > form aforementioned teams. I have to finish breaking the code up first. My "test" gui will be a minimalist lesstif gui, because that's what I have the most experience with (and readily available code blocks for ;) and thus would distract me the least. So, when the time comes, anyone who wants to re-hook the gtk interface will have an instant project if they want ;-) We'll need a win32 gui at that point also, plus a range of export-format HIDs (png, gerber, ps, cnc, etc). I'm sure I'll end up doing whatever nobody volunteers for at that point, just because it has to be done.
