On 11.06.2014 07:30, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
On 06/10/2014 04:39 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
On 10.06.2014 16:40, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
I clicked send, replying to Lorenzo's comment right when your next
e-mail came. Sorry for that,
Thanks Tom, apology accepted.
Another thing we get by supporting multiple open projects and paste, is we are
only one
step away (i.e. COPY) from having copy and paste across projects, and therefore
libraries.
This is leaner than the current methodology of having to switch "current
libraries" to
move a footprint from one to another. And while yes code improvements could
also have
brought this, what we're seeing with this multiple project approach is the
footprint
movement support *without changing existing code* to any great extent. That
sounds like
free to me.
Dick,
I don't see any issue with adding copy/paste and using s-exprs is the
right way of doing so. But this discussion was about getting rid of a
bunch of static variables.
My proposal would be to:
1. Remove the statics, temporarily removing the
retain-last-edited-footprint feature.
2. Add copy/paste in both pcbnew main window and the module editor.
3. Once the copy/paste code is verified, use PROJECT::GetRString() to
bring back the last footprint feature.
This way we would have ultimately less coding to do at the cost of
temporarily disabling a feature that is IMHO not absolutely necessary
for Kicad to work.
It was not that much coding, less than 30 lines I think. I did not do the
PASTE support
yet, but the retention of the last footprint is in rev. 4937. It took me about
1/2 hour
and that's longer than it would have taken had I consulted the places I've use
this
support elsewhere.
Dick,
I agree it's very easy if you want to copy an entire footprint from one
library to another. But things may get complicated for general-purpose
copy paste with arbitrarily selected items.
Imagine that you want to copy-paste a bunch of traces/vias from one PCB
file to another. What happens with the nets? Should one ignore the nets
of the copied objects and propagate the nets of the items in target
design that are colliding with the pasted items? Or store the
netcode<>netname mapping in the clipboard too and add new nets to the
target design?
Regards,
Tom
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