On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:11:22AM +0000, Marc Price wrote: > Ive tried multiple times now using Grep to find the footprint for a > resistor i add it and it doesnt work! every time i try it either uses > the wrong footprint or says error, surely a footprint selector of some > sort needs to be added to either gattrib or gschem in order to simplify > this process.
That's exactly what happened to me in the early days when I attempted to use the m4. Simple grep is not enough. You have to basically reverse engineer the sources in the m4 languages. Good luck. And that's what I did then. I fortunately don't have to handle this anymore because I already cracked those few footprints that are of usability for my projects and I copy them from design to design using copy-paste engineering method. The rest are SMD (the last one I did is almost 100% SMD :) ) and self-made footprints. Especially finding out the numeric arguments is funny. Of course the developers will argue with you that it's actually easy, because they know the source code by heart ;-) CL< > > Sorry i got to say this i like the look and feel of gEDA but no common > sense has gone into making these programs work together. > > Marc >:o
