Le 27/04/2014 10:11, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit : > 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. >
I confirm we have already a footprint wizard mechanism inside the footprint editor, which works fine. (you just need to use option -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON to compile Kicad) Wizard themselves (entirely written in Python) are outside the Kicad code and are plugins, called by the footprint editor. Few days ago, a contributor added wizards for DIP, QFP and BGA footprints, and some utilities to help writing wizards. Therefore: First, tell us more about the footprint types you want to add? (IPC-7351 compliant footprint wizard has no meaning for me) Second, have a look at these wizards, and try to use the existing framework. (see pcbnew\scripting\plugins in Kicad sources) They are powerful (without radio-buttons, dropdowns menus), etc, and do not use wxPython. Be careful with wxPython when it is used in Pcbnew: today we have some troubles with it: - It does not work on Windows (at least for me) - It has serious issues (crashes) (not yet fixed) on Linux. (I do not know the status on OSX) Thanks. -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
