Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:41:49 -0500, John Griessen wrote: > > >> http://www.edn.com/article/CA6666236.html?text=improving+on+pcb+design >> > > Somewhere in the interview they mention the use of spreadsheets to > manipulate symbols in a schematic. I guess, this is, what inspired > gattrib. However, to be really useful during schematic capture, the > spreadsheet needs to communicate more directly with the primary GUI. It > needs to be called from the GUI on selected parts only. And it must > prevent conflicts between the data in the spreadsheet and the data shown > in the schematic GUI. From the user point of view, it should be part of > the GUI just like the edit object dialog is. In a sense, it is and should > feel like a multi symbol attribute dialog. >
That's exactly the kind of stuff that becomes possible--- but in a flexible way--- when you emulate what was done with the GNU debugger, gdb, a few years ago. The refactored to put their core functionality behind a layer that could be utilized by a GUI without that GUI being tightly coupled to the internals of the code. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
