On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 09:57:26AM +0200, Francesco Del Degan wrote: > After using kicad for some months, i decided to start to implement > an IPC-7351 compliant footprint wizard that will cover several packages, > listed in standard itself.
Another one that bought the standard? nice:D I did an explanation document a while ago if you need more informations on the computation itself. > 1. implement the entire wizards and dialogs in C++, adding a starting > button (New IPC Footprint wizard) in module editor. Noooo... foolish, we have python *and* a launchpoint for footprint creation. > 2. Extend the python scripting footprint wizard, allowing choices-based > (radio-buttons, dropdowns menus, etc) fields, dynamic parameters, and > wxPython dialogs. That's the way to do it. > Consider that the dialogs would also display some help images (with > standard reference quoting) and a small preview window that will change as > soon as you change parameters or choices into the dialog itself. I.e. exactly all the others IPC wizards... Just a thing: it would be nice to use the JEDEC symbols instead of the old IPC ones. The C revision is due to publish since something like june of last year, and they seem to have adopted them too. -- 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
