On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 12:39 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Let's assume that, for now, we're just going to implement copying > > and pasting of schematic data. > > It would be up to the receiving application (pcb in this case) to > interpret the incoming data, anyway. gschem would only need to > publish its data format and the magic cookie it uses to say "it's a > schematic". > > So if pcb saw an incoming schematic, it would be up to pcb to dig > through the data and decide what to do about it.
It is also up to the application providing the data. Between the two, they can negotiate a desired exchange format for the data. I was looking to finish refactoring the cairo drawing routines, and be able to export arbitrary graphics formats which cairo knows how to stream. (That is pdf, png, postscript, svg, and WMF / EMF o Win32). When you're talking about transfer to the board layout, one or the other end will need to know how to invoke gnetlist and do the right thing with the data. Since the piece of schematic you're copying might be nested within a hierarchy block, that does make things more complicated. Realistically, I don't expect to see copy-paste between schematic and board layout any time soon. It's getting to the edge of what fits the physical copy+paste UI metaphor. Drag/drop would also be a stretch. -- 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
