On 25 May 2012 17:00, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 May 2012 11:26, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 May 2012 10:50, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I've had a change to put a proposal of the functionality together
>>> which I think covers most stuff. I've attached a txt file incase the
>>> text below doesn't come out very well.
>>>
>>> I think the functionality will be great for a lot of users of KiCad.
>>> Let me know if I should convert this to a blueprint on Launchpad.
>>>
>>> Proposal
>>> --------
>>>
>>> To add new project template functionality to KiCad to facilitate the easy
>>> setup of projects which have common attributes such as pre-defined board
>>> outlines, connector posisitions, schematic elements, design rules, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Definitions
>>> -----------
>>>
>>> A template is a directory of files, which includes a directory of
>>> metadata.
>>> The template system name (SYSNAME) is the directory name under which the
>>> template files are stored. The metadata directory (METADIR) contains
>>> pre-defined files which provide information about the template.
>>>
>>> All files and directories in a template are copied to the new project
>>> path
>>> when a project is created using a template, except METADIR.
>>>
>>> All files and directories which start with SYSNAME will have SYSNAME
>>> replaced by the new project filename, excluding the file extension.
>>>
>>>
>>> Metadata
>>> --------
>>>
>>> A template's METADIR must contain the required files, and might
>>> optionally
>>> contain any of the optional files
>>>
>>> Required Files
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> /info.html - Contains html formatted information about the template
>>> which is used by the user to determine if the template is
>>> what
>>> they are after. The <title> tag determines the actual name of
>>> the template that is exposed to the user for template
>>> selection.
>>>
>>> Using html to format this document means that images can be
>>> inlined without having to invent a new scheme.
>>>
>>> Only HTML supported by wxHTML can be used to format this
>>> document.
>>>
>>> Optional Files
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> /icon.png - A 64 x 64px PNG icon file which is used as a clickable
>>> icon in the template selection dialog.
>>>
>>>
>>> Operation
>>> ---------
>>>
>>> The KiCad File menu will be modified to change New from a menu item to a
>>> pop-out menu item, in the same manor as Open Recent. There will be two
>>> options on the pop-out menu:
>>>
>>> Blank -> Will act exactly the same as the current new menu item so
>>> that anyone
>>> who wishes to create a blank project won't have their settings lost or
>>> feel
>>> alienated.
>>>
>>> From Template -> Will open the template selection dialog.
>>>
>>> The template selection dialog will have a list of icons on the left, and
>>> a
>>> wxHTML window to the right. A single click on a template's icon on the
>>> left
>>> will load that templates info.html metadata file and display it in the
>>> wxHTML window.
>>>
>>> A double click on a template's icon will start the new project creation
>>> and
>>> will open a new file dialog. If the user selects a valid location for the
>>> new project, the template will be copied to the new project location
>>> (excluding METADIR as mentioned earlier) and any files that match the
>>> string
>>> replacement rules will be renamed to reflect the new project's name.
>>>
>>> The list of available templates will be gathered from the following
>>> sources:
>>>
>>> wxStandardPaths::GetExecutableDir()/../share/template/
>>> wxStandardPaths::GetUserDataDir()/templates/
>>> wxGetEnv(wxT("KICAD_TEMPLATES"))
>>
>> No news is good news! ;-)
>>
>> I'm starting to implement this now.
>>
>> Best Regards, Brian.
>
> This is now mostly working, I've just got the new template selector
> dialog to finish off. The GUI bits always seem to take a while to
> finish!
>
> Best Regards, Brian.
Hi Guys,
Just another ping! Code is on-going - sorry the wxWidgets GUI stuff
takes ages to do; Especially as there is essentially a custom tabbed
selection widget. Still, I've learnt a lot about wxWidgets and it's
getting close to completion now.
A preview (with random icons!) can be seen:
http://www.valvers.com/files/kicad-templates-preview.png
I have yet to scrape the html for the project title to print under the
icons (I now don't fancy doing this through wxHtml as their custom tag
handling looks awful!). A simple regex will do the trick easy enough
though. Once that's done and some code tidying is done I'll prep the
patch. Probably another week or so before I can do that.
Best Regards,
Brian.
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