Here are some ideas for features that I had, that you may or may not be interested in. I thought I'd let you know anyway :).
1. Field lines indicating the magnetic flux around inductors. Similar to the animated wires indicating current flow, animated field lines could show the changing magnetic fields around inductors. 2. Tooltips on components. For example, a capacitor's tooltip could show the charge stored on it, and a resistive component could show the power it dissipates. 3. A "discharge all" feature that simply resets every wire to 0V, 0A. When changing circuits while some components are still powered (by a supply, or because some capacitors/inductors still have energy stored), you often get weird results. A "discharge" button would eliminate these problems. 4. A "show power pins" option on opamps similar to the "show body pin" on MOSFETs. Using the power pins, one could select the minimum and maximum values of an opamp's output. 5. Hidden wires or net ports. When you have more than a handful of components, it can get extremely tricky to see different wires. A simple solution would be "net ports" like gEDA's gschem has. Place a net port on one pin, and another with the same identifier on another, and the pins act as if they're connected by a wire, though none is drawn. 6. Transformers/mutual inductors, Zeners, regulators and other components commonly found in real-life circuits that KTL lacks. Big one, I know, but it would make KTechlab a lot better! 7. Enhanced potentiometers: log/antilog pots, and the ability to set the fader position as a percentage in the properties window. 8. Overload indicators: if a component is subject to more voltage/current/power than it is supposed to handle, it could display a warning signal, informing the user to change the parameters or supplies. This also involves addition of polar capacitors, capacitor voltage ratings, resistor wattage ratings, and so on, but those values need not be used by the actual simulator (i.e. a .25W resistor dissipating 1W would still work, but would display a warning sign, as would a polar capacitor that's reverse-biased), so it shouldn't be /that/ difficult to implement. Good luck with the project, and thanks for making KTL! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Ktechlab-devel mailing list Ktechlab-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ktechlab-devel
