Sorry for top-posting! Just wanted to say well done Wayne! Again, excellent work that is so beneficial to the project! And don't think your UI changes have gone unnoticed, KiCad is a lot more together since you started work on the UI tidy up.
Thanks for your continued efforts! :D Best Regards, Brian. On 7 April 2012 19:09, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@verizon.net> wrote: > It took long than I anticipated (doesn't always?) but I just committed > the code to allow saving board files to the new s-expression based file > format. I would like as many folks as possible to save their favorite > board file using File->Save As to the new format and take a look at the > result. My goal is to get the final file format nailed down as quickly > as possible. There are few caveats: > > * I still have to convert angles to degrees from the current tenths of > degrees so please ignore the fact that 270° is saved as 2700°. This fix > is coming soon. > > * The lead developers have decided to drop support for the old segment > filled zones (SEGZONES) which have not been used in quite some time. I > will be adding a dialog warning the user that they will need to refill > their zones using the current polygon filling. I doubt this will effect > very many users but I could be wrong. > > * I rearranged the object ordering slightly compared to the current file > format. I moved the graphic items (items with no net connection) before > the modules. This way all of the net connectable objects (modules, > traces, zones, etc.) will be grouped together. > > Please take some time to look over the new format. If you find a token > (key word) that is not clear, let me know so we can choose names that > are as human readable as possible. Please keep in mind that the file > size is going to increase dramatically over the current format so try to > keep names as brief as possible while still maintaining readability. > Also, if you find any indentation or other formatting errors, let me > know so I can fix it. I will be working on reading the new file format > over the next few days (weeks?) so I would like to wrap up the file > format definition in a reasonable amount of time. Thanks in advance for > you help. > > Wayne > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp