On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:41:33 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote: > The main advantage there is that you could place each component by > clicking *once* rather than the more laborioius 1) find, 2) click & > drag.
This is how I delegate the find task to the computer: 1) Have gschem open on the other screen. 2) do Select -> Select_By_Name -> All_Objects 3) search for the refdeses of a functional group as seen on the schematics and separated by "|" characters. 4) do Select -> Disperse_Selected_Elements 5) Grab the selection from the upper left of the working area and drag it to some other place. Although this is an improvement over searching by eye, it is still a bit laborious. Two features in gschem and pcb could vastly improve the work- flow. In gschem: Extract the refdeses of all symbols in a selection and output them as a one line list separated by "|". In pcb: disperse the selected elements and cut the selection to buffer and activate the buffer tool -- all tied to a single key shortcut. If there were real scripting abilities in gschem and pcb, these two functions would be my first project. Now, that I think about it, the pcb part might already be feasible... ---<(kaimartin)>--- PS: The "|" character is missing in the otherwise helpful description of the use of regexp in the pcb manual. -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
