On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:23 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > I suppose we could have a separate attribute verb, that sets an > invisible attribute without needing to specify a location, size, > color, etc.
That would be really nice. Peter B and I looked at it this way... Attribute verb defines the attribute meta-data etc., and it is keyed in such a way as to be referable (either a unique attribute name, or some name + sequence number for duplicated attributes). If you want the attribute displayed on the schematic, a text display object is placed on the schematic, and that references the attribute data (which it sees appropriately post-processed by layering any over-rides on top of the symbol's data). The UI doesn't necessarily have to change (placing an attribute would automatically create both the data, and the view). The file-format wouldn't necessarily have to change to use this representation internally - it just makes it harder to write out invisible attributes which the user didn't place, as we have to make up some location for them. > This, of course, obsoletes the old way of managing slots. Yes please.. (Ok, it obsoletes the old _code_ for managing slots). There is no reason that the slot= attribute can't still be used in conjunction with slotdef= information in the symbol to drive the module which back-annotates the correct pin numbers. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
