2012/4/9 lajos kamocsay <[email protected]> > Miguel- > > > This is truly awesome! >
It's the swig magic + some help ':D thanks a lot! > > I finally got your repo to build with the attached patch (to revno > 3467). Maybe these changes work for you, too? > Niiice, thanks for the patch, I will apply it right now. > > - had to specify python2 in a handful of .py files and in pcbnew's > cmakelist (I have both python2 and 3) > makes sense :-) - added rt to the linker flags (is this because of testing build?) > About the rt, not sure why is it needed, I suppose it's some Python dependency on your computer. We must leave it added by now. - moved up Python.h in dialog_scripting.cpp, as there were some > define conflicts > I think that fixes some warnings on my side :-) > Do you plan on upgrading to python3 at some point? I can help with > that if you need an extra hand. > About Python3, I expect it not to be hard to do at some point. I choose to stay 2.x because wxPython still doesn't have 3.0 support. I think that at that point we could tune the sources to compile for Python3 and python2 as they want to do. > > I haven't had a chance to look at the available functions yet, but I'm > hoping that now I can change a bunch of pad and drill sizes on a board > automatically ;) > > in pcbnew/scripting/examples you have a couple of them, still very basic, but you can already open a board, iterate over modules/pads/items, and modify them and save the pcb back. > > Thanks- > -lajos > > Thank you Lajos :-) > > > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 4/7/2012 12:08 PM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: > >> > >> During the last two days I had some hours to spend on scripting > >> again, I've been able > >> to fix some memory management problems (objects added to a board or > >> module get deleted > >> by board/module object, but python tried to delete them too, now that > >> condition is detected > >> and avoided - .thisown=0 in python during (board/module).Add(object) > >> did the work-. > >> > >> Now we have wxRect and wxSize wrappers, that were missing. > >> > >> > >> I find some important points that I must address (prioritized list): > >> > >> a) May be working in the KICAD_PLUGIN part for component libraries, > >> to move the librairi.cpp > >> code into plugin system. There's already some design about that? [I'm > >> writing a separate email about this] > >> > >> This is very very interesting: we cleanup kicad's code (as it's > >> planned), and would offer many > >> benefits: ability to create footprint wizards, making automated > >> component servers/libraries, etc... > >> > >> b) I should start documenting somewhere how to work with scripting. > >> Where's > >> the right place? http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page ? , or may > >> be other place? > > > > Miguel, > > > > If this document is only interesting to developers, it may make sense to > > put is somewhere in the source repo in the Documentation folder. If > > this is something that end users may be interested then the appropriate > > place would be the user documentation at > > https://code.launchpad.net/~kicad-developers/kicad/doc. This is where > > the file format documentation currently lives. Either way, the document > > would be under version control which is a good thing. > > > > Wayne > > > >> > >> > >> c) Hook points for scripting inside kicad UI: > >> c.1) Dynamic toolbar + hotkey assignment for registered > plugins > >> c.2) Footprint wizards list, where plugins could be > registered. > >> c.3) Contextual menu plugins (they could registered, and > >> when you right click on some object, they check if they should > >> offer their functionality in the list) > >> c.4) Scripted DRC plugins > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 2012/3/20 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> > >> > >> On 3/18/2012 8:24 PM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > >> >> But just like the command line argument patch that came in 2 > >> >> months ago, there will be a better time to merge this all in. > >> > > >> > Quick note from the guy who wrote most of the command line patch: > >> > I saw the scripting patch and I agree with Dick that this is super > >> > important and great work! Well done scripting can probably replace > >> > the need for command line options. > >> > > >> > I will continue to maintain the command-line patches out-of-tree > >> > and uplevel 'every few months'. But scripting is definitely the > >> > better approach and I'm very happy to see it moving forward. > >> > > >> > It is in our shared interest to keep the KiCad codebase readable > >> > maintainable. > >> > >> Wolfgang, > >> > >> Thank you for being patient and understanding the importance of > keeping > >> the code base readable and maintainable. KiCad is a large project > and > >> as it continues to grow, the importance of code maintenance cannot > be > >> under estimated. I wish I could commit more time to the project to > >> speed this process along. For now, we'll have to make due. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Wayne > >> > >> > Cheers, > >> > Wolfgang > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> > Post to : [email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]> > >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]> > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo > >> http://www.nbee.es > >> +34 636 52 25 69 > >> skype: ajoajoajo > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo http://www.nbee.es +34 636 52 25 69 skype: ajoajoajo
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