I have two somewhat important issues with the python binding... as you know I'm implementing the plot interface.
- Decoupling the message logs: for 'big' messages we usually show message boxes; these *could* be acceptable for scripting (maybe a better solution would be throwing an exception...) but other messages (for example the 'created %s directory') are currently hardwired to the text control in the dialog... this is a clear 'functionality tied to UI' issue (and MVC was created to address it); sadly most (if not all) the features in kicad are similarily tied to the UI code. This makes difficult to export stuff to 'pure' scripting. Currently I'm using an optional pointer to the message log box; I don't know where these messages should go during scripting (standard output? is it redirected to the python console?) Ideally a 'message log' interface should be defined with a couple of implementations (message box and python log/whatever); this could be used also in other situations requiring progress log; - Access to core classes: from what I've seen of the python bindings it seems that the root object is the BOARD, which makes sense; sadly the plot routines at the moment are in the PCB_EDIT_FRAME (like a lot of the operations); another issue of feature/UI intermingling. I'll try to extract them from PCB_EDIT_FRAME and put them relative to the BOARD or, better yet, externally; I'm not a fan of 'everything in classes': external stuff should be externally (the old OO philosophical dilemma: the BOARD drivers the PLOTTER, the PLOTTER reads the BOARD or something else read the BOARD and drive the PLOTTER?). Also the PCB_EDIT_FRAME has already way too methods, and a diet could improve it :D - Is it correct that everything is compiled twice? I see that a pcbnew.so is being generated... is this for running as a python module (i.e. from python and not with python inside)? -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
