Greets all; Going thru the docs for eagle, in this case following the tutorial_en.pdf, resetting the directories to where they exist on that machine seems to stick over an exit and restart. Checking requirements, I see that libpng14.so.14 is required so you helped me build a script: gene@shop:/opt/eagle-6.1.0$ cat bin/eagle LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(dirname "$0")" "$(dirname "$0")/eagle.orig" $@
It doesn't complain about a missing library so I assume that is working, but for a universal launcher, should I not have a /usr/bin bash script that first does a cd to /opt/eagle-6.1.0/ in order to setup the pwd, and then do a 'bin/eagle'? In any event, it seems to work. I have eagle open and showing my project(empty of course) highlighted with a green indicator button dot in the left pane of the window. Reading along in the tut and seeing a few things as I go along in its description, I get to pages 12-13-14 where it says 'Option->Menu etc' or Options/Set, Color tab, But when I open the option menu, I only have 4 items: Directories Backup User Interface Window positions I've been thru the user interface panel & changed a few things, like inverting the foreground/background colors used, but with no effects seen. The settings do seem to stick over a quit & restart ok. I don't seem to be able to create an empty schematic page, only ever deeper directories named for the page.sch I want. This under the 'file' menu. I can open the libraries and select the device, which then opens in its own window showing it both schematically and a footprint outline but despite reading how to select and use the device, I have no 'schematic' window to copy it into, so none of those commands do anything, not even blinking the screen to indicate an error. The claim is made that a device should be hanging from the cursor when selected, but its never happened. It is also single threaded making it impossible to do a drag & drop because as long as the library window is open, all others appear to be unfocusable, greyed out. I get the impression that when I am looking at the selected device in the library's window, that I am actually looking at the device in its editor window, presumably not the select and use window. And no clue how to get there except I have now gotten there probably 20 times by opening the library, then opening the library in that window and clicking on the now visible devices name which appears to open an editor to edit the device. Do I have a defective install? or am I just too damned dumb?? I have also downloaded & unpacked pcb-gcode-3.5.2.11.zip, which seems to be a fairly major suite of tools in its own right, but haven't attempted to sort that basket of rattlesnakes just yet. Looks simple enough, unzip it to a 'ulp' directory & add that to the ulp directory path, so now I have 2 ulp directories. One with the contents of that zip in it. Kewl. But in eagle, I have yet to find that command line box talked about in the tuts so I can't run the setup utility it talks about in its install.html. And I just noted that this added ulp directory, built where the docs said to build it, also shows up in the projects menu. No clue if that is good or bad, just commenting. Thanks all. And just for a heads up, that basal cell cancer they removed a dime sized piece of my nose to get it out on Dec 1st, now has another teeny little eruption about 1/4" on down the side of my nose that will be looked at on the 26th. Too many years of getting a good tan every summer I guess. Now its pay the piper (actually the whole darned orchestra from the way they bill) time. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
