On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:31:06PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 6/5/2015 2:00 PM, Andy Peters wrote: > > > > *snip * > > *snip* Trying to provide a fully defined symbol > for every transistor would be a huge under taking. Our solution may not > be ideal but I'm not sure I want to sift through thousands (tens of > thousands?) of transistor part numbers to find what I'm looking for.
You should never have to sift! We need to create a standardized way to write description that is easily searched. This is how I manage my library - it's quite large, but I know how the descriptions work and I can just start typing what I'm looking for. > I wonder how well Henner's component chooser search code would handle >that > number of symbols. Optimize it if it can't! Searching through even *millions* of data points is a solved problem in computing. Ideally we'd have optional wildcard and regex search too - something I might be willing to contribute to in the near future. These can all be quite fast if done right. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp