A R, See responses below (marked with "P-") Kurt
Message: 2 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:13:47 +0000 From: "a r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: KJWaves - new release To: "gEDA user mailing list" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Kurt, Good piece of work. Thanks. I have several comments/fearure requests. They may not be useful in general case as the are mostly related to my use patterns. 1. I don't use gui tool for configuring simulation runs. Is there a way to start KJWaves directly in the raw file (or gnucap file) viewer mode? P- I don't use GnuCap, so I don't know what that mode is. I am not sure what you mean. 1a. (just an explanation) For productivity reasons, I usually enter simulation testbenches in a text editor and in this file I include all the necessary model libraries, generated or extracted netlists etc. In case of OS tools I end up entering everything by hand as there are no good schematic editors available (pun intended). P- have you tried using Analog analysis components in Gschem? It works for me. I had to do quite a bit of trial and error first and create a few of my own Gschem symbols... 2. vertical stacking of waveform panels P- What does this mean? Do you want the tabs along the left and right side instead of along the bottom? Which side do you prefer? 3. keyboard shortcuts in waveform viewer P- For what, in particular? 4. Two cursor and numerical readouts (X, Y, delta, frequency and gradient). P- That will be tough - you already get a cursor position readout by double-clicking on the graph (see below). Doing differentials would take some thought for implementation -- probably need some kind of dragging motion recognition. 5. saving&restoring the waveform view configuration. P- Interesting. would have to think about this. What, in particular, do you need loaded/saved? 6. better calculator and its interface (entering formulas by hand would do fine and treating them as regular waveforms) P- I thought about formulas by hand, but that requires a lot of error checking for fumble fingers. I really didn't want to go through that pain. 7. there is a number of operations that result in exceptions being thrown (I will try to collect some representative logs and send them to you later) P- PLEASE do! 8. please, remove that big knob from the waveform viewer (what is it for, btw?) P- The big knob is a great feature (it doesn't print nor get included in a saved image (PNG)). It is used to specify where the data point is annotated (in what direction the arrow points). For instance, let's say you want point [3,4] to be placed at the upper right instead of below it's location on the graph. You would rotate the knob to point to the lower left, and then double-click on the graph at the location for point [3,4]. Give it a try, and then, if you have a better thought on how to place the annotations I will try to implement that instead. I probably should have put that relatively new feature on the tutorial, but I thought it was obvious?! :-0 The speed (interface only, I haven't tested kjwaves with big waveform files yet) is very good. Installation was flawless - this is a big advantage over gwave. Calculator, although rough around edges, has already proven to be useful. P- I'm glad to hear that! If you could at least resolve points 3&5 that would make kjwaves useful for my everyday work. Cheers, -r. On Dec 31, 2007 6:57 PM, KURT PETERS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just released a new version of KJWaves (available on sourceforge.net). > It has the ability to read GnuCap files (requested by Al Davis) and a fix to > the way log plots are displayed. > > Kurt Peters - Developer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user End of geda-user Digest, Vol 20, Issue 13 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
