DJ Delorie wrote: >> Would having a footprint browser popup in gschem when the user tries >> to add a footprint attribute violate the modular nature of the kit? > > If gschem were designed to allow for other types of attribute > browsers, that would be fine. I think a spice model browser would be > very welcome. Me, I have other ideas - I'd rather see something like > gattrib sit between gschem and pcb, and manage the heavification, so > that gschem doesn't need to know about footprints at all. >
I like that, I haven't used gattrib, yet. I'll look at it. >> As a new gEDA user trying to get it done quickly, switching from >> the gschem gui to the cli grepping around got old. > > Run PCB and use it to look up footprints. > Should I run gimp to look at the png's with each footprint? ;-) >> I like the fact that there is a dropdown of common attribute names >> (right-click a symbol, edit), and that you can type in your own if you >> like. Doing something similar in the Value box seems reasonable. Or, >> perhaps a "browse footprints" button below the Value box (only visible >> when attribute is footprint). > > Dan was working on a "modes" system for gschem, so you could tell it > to be in "pcb mode" and you got everything customized for that. In > "spice mode" it wouldn't ask for footprints, in "pcb mode" you could > swap gates, etc. > Interesting, would this be specified at launch, or toggleable? >> On another note, how much resistance would there be to using regex >> (libpcre is already in there) when searching of footprint names? This >> would be in both pcb, and the hypothetical gschem footprint browser. > > PCB already uses regex for other things, I think if pcb's footprint > dialog were as gui-full as gschem's, a regex search would make a lot > of sense there. > John just reminded me that pcb isn't a part of geda, sorry for the confusion. I'll take a look at gattrib before I let my gschem-regex-attr search idea run away from me... thx, Jason. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user