Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Florian Teply
Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:05:02AM +0100, Florian Teply wrote: Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:03:18 Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote: I'm gonna try and make up a list of

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Florian Teply
Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:05:02AM +0100, Florian Teply wrote: Florian Teply use...@teply.info wrote: On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:03:18 Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote:

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 10:58 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote: Hi Peter, Yeah, I'm using XP with SP2 and several gtk based applications ported to windows installed on that machine. This morning I reproduced this bug on my Vista laptop, both with the 1.6.0.-1 and the 1.6.0-2 versions, and again

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 07:34 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/gschem-debug-font.exe I tried dumping this into my \bin folder, but it gives and error - can't find libgeda-38.dll I'll try rebuilding with the latest sources and see if that sorts it out This

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread David C. Kerber
Plain text files can also be used for databases, as long as you have the correct drivers. There is an ODBC driver for text files in windows, and I've seen a database engine that used plain text files for its data stores, though I don't recall the name right now. -Original Message-

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: I'm trying to nail the root cause of this now.. Could you try with this version of gschem (which should spew a load of 1,23 = 1,23 or something similar. (To the console - assuming you can retrieve that output). I get: Debugging font issue, 1,23 = 1,23 By going

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:23 -0200, Cesar Strauss wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: I'm trying to nail the root cause of this now.. Could you try with this version of gschem (which should spew a load of 1,23 = 1,23 or something similar. (To the console - assuming you can retrieve that

Re: gEDA-user: New gaf on Windows and one PCB question

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: Behdad's suggested fix was to use non string based API to request the font family and size explictly, hence the attached patch. Cesar, perhaps you want to pick this up in minipack for 1.6.0 (I'll see about getting something sorted for 1.6.1). Pushed to the minipack

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: - Count (for resistor arrays) - Pb-free (for RoHS and WEEE) - Operating temperature range Cheers, Ed ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:23 -0200, Cesar Strauss wrote: By going to the Control Panel - Regional Options, and choosing between Portuguese and English, I can change the output at will. Can you reproduce it on your Windows laptop? I ought to be able to try that later, but

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread al davis
On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? I guarantee you will leave something out, and that you will include some useless stuff. Just make sure the design is such that fields can be added and removed in the future without breaking anything. Same goes for

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 14:56 -0200, Cesar Strauss wrote: As I said, POSIX-C fixes this. Neato.. I guess Windows doesn't care for POSIX. Anyone care to comment whether setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, C); is portable to all Unices? (Another patch for minipack at least!). Speaking of minipack, I think you

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:26 -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: - Count (for resistor arrays) - Pb-free (for RoHS and WEEE) ^^___ These relate to

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Cesar Strauss wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: Does it make any difference if you edit gschem.c, and change: setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, POSIX); to setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, C); Interesting. Changing from POSIX to C fixes the Postscript issue, as well as the font issue. The manual page for Windows

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Peter, Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 07:34 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/gschem-debug-font.exe I tried dumping this into my \bin folder, but it gives and error - can't find libgeda-38.dll I'll try rebuilding with the latest sources and see if

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Cesar Strauss
Bert Timmerman wrote: BTW: keeping all sources for a windows port available on-line for three years is something of a spoiler :( I do not think this is the case. You either: 1) Have all the sources on-line. 2) Keep the sources off-line for three years. Either way, if you remove the binaries

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, Peter Clifton wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 08:26 -0800, Edward Hennessy wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: - Count (for resistor arrays) - Pb-free (for RoHS and WEEE)

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Cesar, Cesar Strauss wrote: Bert Timmerman wrote: BTW: keeping all sources for a windows port available on-line for three years is something of a spoiler :( I do not think this is the case. You either: 1) Have all the sources on-line. 2) Keep the sources off-line for three years.

Re: gEDA-user: Test gschem bug...

2010-01-19 Thread DJ Delorie
BTW: keeping all sources for a windows port available on-line for three years is something of a spoiler :( If you're referring to the GPL, you only need to do that if (1) you shipped a binary without sources at some point, (2) included a written offer to provide sources in the future, and (3)

gEDA-user: Win32 build with native printing support (via Cairo)

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Clifton
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda-gaf-1.6.0+cairo_printing-1.exe I thought I'd just knock out a Win32 build with some patches in my cairo_experiment tree, and see if we could get native printing working on Win32. The answer appears to be a resounding YES, with the following caveats: 1. I've

Re: gEDA-user: Silver Epoxy: was Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Darrell Harmon
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: e) That the distributors in Spain take outrageous margins ($200 becomes   €400), so I'm trying to find a cheap way to get the epoxy. Mark Stanley said most of what I was going to say. It was all very good advice. You may

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:50 AM, al davis wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: Anything else to add?? I guarantee you will leave something out, and that you will include some useless stuff. I agree. Just make sure the design is such that fields can be added and

gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit

2010-01-19 Thread dfro
Hey everyone, I just created a thread on cnczone.com, which I want to bring to your attention. I titled it, Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97677 I think I have worked out a good software tool chain to create

Re: gEDA-user: seul.org service coming back slowely...

2010-01-19 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] All of seul.org's gEDA services should be fully functional now. Please send me a note if you see anything gEDA related non-functional. One more update/change. SEUL is no longer running an ircd on its primary machine. So, #geda hss moved to irc.oft.net. You can find all

Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit

2010-01-19 Thread Dave N6NZ
Hmmm... interesting. I gave your post a quick skim, and will have to go back to read it in detail when I have more time. A while back I created a flow to convert the paste layer to laser cutter code for the creation of solder paste stencils. My path was: 1. print .ps from pcb 2. pstoedit to