2012/4/11 Dick Hollenbeck <d...@softplc.com> > Mike > > If you want to propose some virtual functions, simply Doxygen commented > function > prototypes, that can be added to the the PLUGIN API, this will give us a > chance to see > your C++ design skills at work. > > It makes sense, and I think it's a good exercise to get in touch a little bit more with the pcbnew internals :-)
> Please just start with the function prototypes, Doxygen commented, no > actual code yet. > There can be private functions also, but the public ones need to handle: > > a) existing legacy libraries using footprint/module load save code already > in > LEGACY_PLUGIN so we can automatically scale these legacy modules to > nanometers. > > b) new s-expression libraries where each footprint is simply a separate > file, so the > "library" parameter to any API function is essentially a directory, > whereas for > LEGACY_PLUGIN it was a file. > Understood > > See if this is do-able from a design standpoint. > Ok :) > > My thinking was to get this work into the testing tree. Then ask you to > merge it into > your scripting tree. I was planning on using your tree to do the actual > conversion of all > the footprint libraries over to new s-expression format, simply by looping > through > footprint by footprint, using LEGACY_PLUGIN to load, and KICAD_PLUGIN to > save the footprints. > That's exactly what I was wanting to do, starting to read and write libraries from scripting. I've been working the last couple of days to do a first merge of the current testing branch to the scripting branch (now they diverged a little bit with all your last work). > If you cannot get to this conceptual contribution within a week, or have > other interests > now, such as HTTP_LIB_SOURCE, that is understandable, just say so. > > I really want to start it now, because I find it as a first step to get into the HTTP libraries/server/etc. > > Thanks, > You're welcome :-) > > Dick > > -- Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo http://www.nbee.es +34 636 52 25 69 skype: ajoajoajo
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