Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread DJ Delorie
I'm keeping all the emails at least... ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:08 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: Plus, I don't have a clear understanding of what mapped and allocated and realized mean in Gtk terms. Does anyone know of a good overview of Gtk+? The book of Andrew Krause is still a good starting point. It describes the C basic

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread timecop
GTK isn't all that hard if you just read the header files Amirite? On 8 Sep 2010 19:35, Stefan Salewski [1]m...@ssalewski.de wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:08 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: Plus, I don't have a clear understanding of what mapped and allocated

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of John Doty Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 9:07 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0 On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:50

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2010 01:09 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: I'm keeping all the emails at least... The last time we were talking blue sky features I made a list on a wiki, and did not notice anyone else adding to the wiki. Was it read? Did it help? John Griessen

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Ethan Swint
On 9/8/2010 11:38 AM, John Griessen wrote: On 09/08/2010 01:09 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: I'm keeping all the emails at least... The last time we were talking blue sky features I made a list on a wiki, and did not notice anyone else adding to the wiki. Was it read? Did it help? Link

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread John Doty
On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:47 AM, David C. Kerber wrote: -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of John Doty Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 9:07 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: next PCB

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: How about a menu item that loads the .pcb file in your favorite editor, and when that is done, reverts to file contents? That's what I meant. That's how my favorite email and usenet clients deal with external editing (knode and balsa). ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread John Doty
On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: DJ Delorie wrote: How about a menu item that loads the .pcb file in your favorite editor, and when that is done, reverts to file contents? That's what I meant. That's how my favorite email and usenet clients deal with external

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Frank Bergmann
Am 08.09.2010 03:31, schrieb DJ Delorie: Editing *anything* with two editors (any kind of editors) at the same time IS BAD, unless both are explicitly designed to work together that way. Yes, multiple users/instances can work on the same layout simultaneous...

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of John Doty Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 12:12 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0 On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:47

Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew Miner
I don't think the copper shape / masking / clearance of the via is necessarily primitive. Granted, in 99.9% of cases it can be described by circular copper geometry on each connected layer, but support for arbitrary pad-stacks for components might as well extend to arbitrary via geometry. I'm

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2010 11:57 AM, John Doty wrote: John G wrote: How about a menu item that loads the .pcb file in your favorite editor, and when that is done, reverts to file contents? Why restrict it to an editor? We could pass it to an artist or even a dog to process with the right

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2010 11:06 AM, Ethan Swint wrote: Link please? I'll edit! http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:design_flow_and_hierarchy_roadmap It's about more than pcb, but any fresh updating and editing is welcome by me. John PS How are your SR motor control designs coming Ethan? Any of them open

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Levente Kovacs
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:41:25 -0500 John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com wrote: How about a menu item that loads the .pcb file in your favorite editor, and when that is done, reverts to file contents? If I recall correctly, that is why I added the File-Revert function. I use it to explicitly load

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Levente Kovacs
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:08:18 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:24:38PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Sounds nice -- could come from DJ upgrading GTK functionality. I was hoping someone else would do the GTK stuff :-) I'm working on cleaning up the Gtk

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Frank Bergmann
Am 08.09.2010 02:08, schrieb Andrew Poelstra: I'm working on cleaning up the Gtk code - well, refactoring gui-top-window.c, anyway. Hopefully I'll be able to get things into a top-down sorta structure that can be easily mapped to C++. Do you have an open accessible repository of your code

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:48:45PM +0200, Levente Kovacs wrote: I'd make the left pane of the GTK HID somehow optional. I'd implement it with a toolbox(es). We should think about the fact, that tear-off menus will disappear from GTK+ 3.x. :-( Levente Why? What will they be replaced

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Frank Bergmann
Am 08.09.2010 20:48, schrieb Levente Kovacs: I'd make the left pane of the GTK HID somehow optional. I'd implement it with a toolbox(es). We should think about the fact, that tear-off menus will disappear from GTK+ 3.x. :-( After a hint from Peter C. I use GDL

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:08 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:24:38PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Sounds nice -- could come from DJ upgrading GTK functionality. I was hoping someone else would do the GTK stuff :-) I'm working on cleaning up the Gtk code - well,

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 20:31 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: To get this it would be nice to have stackup information with the layers, 4 layer board with 1oz copper on the outside and .5oz on the inside. etc. I think we decided at some point in the past that the layer *group* order would be

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 21:10 -0400, gene glick wrote: DJ Delorie wrote: Shall we / I push this? I think it looks good overall. off the top of my head . . . A) slots in planes (may be already in the process?) You can already create holes in polygons with the latest PCB git HEAD, if that's

gEDA-user: pcb save as older version?

2010-09-08 Thread Mark Rages
Hi, I'm trying to mix and match pcb builds to evade some polygon bugs. But I modified a file in git pcb and now I want to load it in the older pcb supplied by Ubuntu. I get this warning: ERROR: The file you are attempting to load is in a format which is too new for this version of pcb. To

Re: gEDA-user: pcb save as older version?

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 14:52 -0500, Mark Rages wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mix and match pcb builds to evade some polygon bugs. But I modified a file in git pcb and now I want to load it in the older pcb supplied by Ubuntu. I get this warning: ERROR: The file you are attempting to load is

Re: gEDA-user: pcb save as older version?

2010-09-08 Thread Mark Rages
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: No, but if you don't use any polygon holes in the file, just hand-edit the file version header back to 20070407. That works. Thank you. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Yes, but if you read the previous message, DJ assumed that allows meant requires. To reiterate my position on that: I don't mind the use a text editor solution. My concern is editing it *while* PCB is *also* editing it. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread DJ Delorie
If I recall correctly, that is why I added the File-Revert function. I use it to explicitly load the pcb from the filesystem. In theory, a save/edit/revert menu entry can be done with the existing actions. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Our default layer stack is pretty poor for 3D though.. since most of the inner layers are defined after the two outer layers ;) In the past, we'd talked about new being replaced by load template Then the user could choose 2/4/6 layer starting points, eurocard or pci outlines, etc; based on

Re: gEDA-user: pcb save as older version?

2010-09-08 Thread DJ Delorie
If it uses new features, no. I'd suggest emacs :-) Just edit out the Version line and see if the old pcb can load it. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Ethan Swint
On 9/8/2010 4:37 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Yes, but if you read the previous message, DJ assumed that allows meant requires. To reiterate my position on that: I don't mind the use a text editor solution. My concern is editing it *while* PCB is *also* editing it The reason I don't close down PCB

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread DJ Delorie
The reason I don't close down PCB is that it's a pain to close down PCB, then open it again, position the window where you want it, resize the PCB window, move the status box where you want it, close the library, etc., particularly when you make a small tweak and want to visualize it

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread John Doty
On Sep 8, 2010, at 2:37 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: Yes, but if you read the previous message, DJ assumed that allows meant requires. To reiterate my position on that: I don't mind the use a text editor solution. My concern is editing it *while* PCB is *also* editing it. Sure. Don't do that.

Re: gEDA-user: Garbage drawn outside of pcb board area

2010-09-08 Thread Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 04:18:38AM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 00:16 +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 09:14:12PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: You were right - it seems the driver is at fault... It wasn't always like that so I'll try

Re: gEDA-user: pcb save as older version?

2010-09-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: Is there a way to save the file as an older version? No, but if you don't use any polygon holes in the file, just hand-edit the file version header back to 20070407. I added this to the wiki

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Andrew Poelstra wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:48:45PM +0200, Levente Kovacs wrote: We should think about the fact, that tear-off menus will disappear from GTK+ 3.x. :-( Why? Because it complicates the GtkMenu code. See:

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ethan Swint wrote: The reason I don't close down PCB is that it's a pain to close down PCB, then open it again, position the window where you want it, resize the PCB window, move the status box where you want it, close the library, The window

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: Our default layer stack is pretty poor for 3D though.. since most of the inner layers are defined after the two outer layers ;) In the past, we'd talked about new being replaced by load template Then the user could choose 2/4/6 layer starting points, eurocard or pci

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread John Griessen
On 09/08/2010 03:44 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: The reason I don't close down PCB is that it's a pain to close down PCB, then open it again, position the window where you want it, resize the PCB window, move the status box where you want it, close the library, etc., particularly when you make a

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Try adding a putenv() to ActionExecCommand() in action.c to set the name of the PCB's file. Then you can SaveAs(Layout) ExecCommand(vi $PCBFILE) LoadFrom(Revert) (assuming $PCBFILE gets expanded correctly) ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Steven Michalske
On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:01 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: Shall we / I push this? I think it looks good overall. I desparately need to push out a release to get the LF work published in order to close it out. Maybe I'll do a 1.99za release just to accomplish those goals, then we can cram in all the

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:12:57PM +0200, Frank Bergmann wrote: Am 08.09.2010 02:08, schrieb Andrew Poelstra: I'm working on cleaning up the Gtk code - well, refactoring gui-top-window.c, anyway. Hopefully I'll be able to get things into a top-down sorta structure that can be easily mapped to

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:01:43AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: DJ Delorie wrote: Our default layer stack is pretty poor for 3D though.. since most of the inner layers are defined after the two outer layers ;) In the past, we'd talked about new being replaced by load template Then

Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

2010-09-08 Thread kai-martin knaak
John Griessen wrote: Link please? I'll edit! http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:design_flow_and_hierarchy_roadmap It's about more than pcb, but any fresh updating and editing is welcome by me. Hmmm. The page could benefit from some more structure. It presents solutions but does not