Hi, thanks for answers! Brian, I will definitely like to give a hand. But before start everything I need to study things guys talking about. I haven't really look about KIWAY yet. Probably after that I will have more clear look how to implement that. And many thanks for suggestions and advices.
On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 17:56, Brian Piccioni <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brian here. > > > > My utility is up on GitHub as a standalone app. I learned enough c++ and > wxWidgets so porting it to Kicad should be useful. > > > > I set porting it to Kicad itself to the side for a few months so I could > catch up with life and since it is destined for V6 (IIRC) I have some time. > While there is a lot of code in Kicad and lots of moving parts I have a clear > path to porting it over using Kiway, etc.. Essentially this means > > > > Replacing my homebrew parsing of PCB, Schematic, and netlist files to calls > to internal Kicad functions/methods in the respective apps; > Once this is done I’ll use Kiway to communicate the changes between eeSchema > and PCBNew. > > > > As near as I can determine, everything I need to extract from the files is > already in Kicad. > > > > When I set things aside I was trying to figure out what I needed to do in > order to add a toolbar call in Tools to access my code. Since there seems to > be numerous files associated with such a change I found it rather daunting. > > > > If anybody wants to help they are welcome to reach out to me directly. > > > > Brian > > > > > > From: Ian McInerney > Sent: November 6, 2019 9:08 AM > To: KiCad Developers; [email protected] > Cc: Brian Piccioni > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB > > > > I thought that was part of the connectivity stuff that Jon was working on (it > certainly wasn't me, and I don't know if there is another Ian contributing > code right now). I remember seeing some email threads on real-time updates to > the information in Eeschema. > > > > The wishlist item that Wayne mentioned is [1]. Brian filed that a while ago > because he had created a tool to do the back annotation based on the > geography of the board. I don't know where he is with porting it into the > KiCad codebase right now, but you should definitely reach out to him and > coordinate work so that you don't duplicate effort. > > > > -Ian > > > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748205 > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:47 PM Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 08:26:52AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > > > May I implement some back annotation feature from PCB to schematic? > > > You are welcome to contribute to KiCad. I suspect it will not be as > > easy as you think it will be. Complex schematic hierarchies (using the > > same schematic more than once in a design) always trips up new developers. > > I dimly remember that there was some work (Ian did that IIRC) to make the > netlist the master document and attach the schematic and PCB information to > that, with a first patch to keep the netlist up-to-date continuously. > > It would probably make sense to join that effort, because any other > solution would conflict heavily with that. > > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [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] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
