Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-28 Thread DJ Delorie
settings is loaded before anything else; it overrides the compiled-in defaults. The GUI then applies its own changes, either through a database (gtk uses preferences) or the command line (lesstif and scripts honor X11-style options) or elsewhere (lesstif implicitly uses ~/.Xdefaults, for example)

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:00:27 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > pcb --help > > ps options: > --psfile Postscript output file --drill-helper > Prints a centering target in large drill holes > --align-marks Prints alignment marks on each layer [...] > Optio

Re: gEDA-user: Feature requests printout and export

2007-10-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:04:23 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: >> With the gtk-hid-gui there is a ~/.pcb/preferences file. > > The ~/.pcb/settings is not in a hid; it's common to everything. It's > supposed to work for scripting, too, for example. Can you elaborate the "official" difference between the

Re: gEDA-user: getting started with geda simulation

2007-10-28 Thread al davis
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > >>> resistor is .001 ohms? That's what you asked for. > >>>  "1M" is 1 milli-ohm. > > Popular newbie trap, I guess. To make it worse. (still a bug in gnucap snapshot, but will be fixed before the stable release)... In Spice: 1M is .001 1m

Re: gEDA-user: getting started with geda simulation

2007-10-28 Thread al davis
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > As a newbie I tend to deal with simple things... > Can you give an example of a complex task? Complete analysis of a class-B amplifier? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www

Re: gEDA-user: getting started with geda simulation

2007-10-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:16:48 -0400, al davis wrote: > You are better off without gspiceui. It obscures what is going on. > GUI's make simple things simple and complex things impossible. As a newbie I tend to deal with simple things... Can you give an example of a complex task? > Here's what

Re: gEDA-user: getting started with geda simulation

2007-10-28 Thread al davis
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Al Davis hinted me to gnucap. So I decided to give it a try. > The utility gspiceui seems to be the glue between gschem and > gnucap or ngspice. It compiled out of the box. Thanks to the > geda CD image gnucap and ngspice were already installed.

gEDA-user: getting started with geda simulation

2007-10-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Al Davis hinted me to gnucap. So I decided to give it a try. The utility gspiceui seems to be the glue between gschem and gnucap or ngspice. It compiled out of the box. Thanks to the geda CD image gnucap and ngspice were already installed. Unfortunately I got stuck with my first circuit --- A r

Re: gEDA-user: What is difference with lesstif?

2007-10-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> Which programs use lesstif, which do not? Just pcb. > I really don't know the differences in what they do - but a recent > thread indicated you have to select it at compile time. Is that > correct? I guess I'm looking for a lesstif 101 primer :) Lesstif and Gtk are two different GUI toolkits

Re: gEDA-user: [ctrl-x] should cut to buffer

2007-10-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> I'd be willing to contribute these improvements of > gpcb-menu.res. Just tell me step-by-step, what I need to do to send > a proper patch. Check out and build the CVS version of pcb. Make your edits and test them. Run "cvs diff -p -U 3" and redirect the output to a file. Read the diff! Past

Re: gEDA-user: Allow to put buttons for frequently used symbols in the task bar.

2007-10-28 Thread gene
> By the way, when I skip through the manual, I see resistors, capacitors, > transistors and FETs. But what about opamps? Are there libraries for some > of the most common models? Say, TL081, OP07, OP27, or an äquivalent to > the fast LMH6624. How about comparators or instrumentation amps? >

gEDA-user: What is difference with lesstif?

2007-10-28 Thread gene
DJ, Which programs use lesstif, which do not? I really don't know the differences in what they do - but a recent thread indicated you have to select it at compile time. Is that correct? I guess I'm looking for a lesstif 101 primer :) gene ___ ged

Re: gEDA-user: [ctrl-x] should cut to buffer

2007-10-28 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:03:41 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Lesstif? It has cut and copy swapped, which I know is bad but I'm > worried about confusing people if I just change it. No, I use GTK-HID. With this interface there is only a subtle difference between [ctrl-c] and what [ctrl-x] do. Both cop