Having as my main - and not pleasant - memory of using the geda/PCB tools half a year ago be the incredibly annoying repetitive typing of commands (both at the normal CLI, where the really common ones could be scripted, as well as inside PCB, where... well, I never did, anyway), I thought I'd take the fresh new install for a spin and give try xgsch2pcb. It worked fine for the project I'd finished half a year ago, so I thought I'd give it a small piece of the upcoming one to try. Had to create a symbol, yeah, boring and annoying, but old hat - schematic entry went well enough, shook the rust off the muscle memories.
Then xgsch2pcb just tanked. Couldn't find any of my footprints. I couldn't find anything that said anything useful about how to tell it where to find the footprints. No provision for it at all, at all, int he x-- interface. Tried variations on the elemnts-dir lines shown in one tutorial (buried under mounds of finger exercises - I do wish there was documentation for this stuff, not just rambling, ill-organized narratives. no, sorry, I can't write it - if i could, I might be doing it, and i certainly wouldn't need to ask this question. oh, wait, you aren't the project who always responds to complaints about the docs by saying "so send a patch". never mind...) ... So if I pu them in the project then running gsch2pcb by hand works just fine - finds the footprints as expected. But if I load that project file into xgsch2pcb, it just goes blank - all the controls grey, can't do anything (it does show the right name in the PCB file slot, IIRC). So what's the secret? Or is this just something that needs another year of simmering, as I think someone put it about a year ago? Thanks. -- And in the end, reality always tends to hit theory hard in the face when you least expect it. - Linus _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user