Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Add line end to line type dialog

2010-04-24 Thread Armin Faltl
Is it correct, that round linestyle is default because of its superior mechanical/thermal properties? - I definitely read this for pads and it's easy to imagine, that a corner more easily delaminates than a round edge. In the light of this, a "small bend" corner style would be cool ;-) Peter Clif

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-24 Thread Armin Faltl
I'm here only for a bit over a week, got a lot of help and try to contribute something. In my opinion, even if you were bashing gEDA or parts of it, this would be still your right, while probably no good place. What sounds like bashing in the ears of some contains constructive criticisim in the

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-24 Thread Armin Faltl
What I forgot: my personal experience is with PostgreSQL (have it installed under Linux and Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, works excellent). This is what I would use for a shared environment (eg. web-resource). For read only or single user systems sqlite may be useful. However, the table definit

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-24 Thread Armin Faltl
ing in the same direction. Usually I start with a requirements specification if doing serious dev and this would go for review here or at least some peers. Once I got something presentable, I'll present it ;-) Vladimir Zhbanov wrote: Armin Faltl wrote: Hello Vladimir, the point in n

Re: gEDA-user: PCB configuration skin

2010-04-24 Thread Armin Faltl
The lesstif GUI has a minimalist layout in order to maximize the amount of screen real estate that goes to the layout window. Is there a true reason this is not done in the GTK+ GUI? - I wrote 3-4 GUI programs so far from Microsoft foundation classes to raw X11 to GTK+ to FLTK and always t

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA programming

2010-04-24 Thread Armin Faltl
Miguel, I don't want to hurt you, how ever, the order of your first sentence reads very wrong to me: learn a lot of C programming, good coding style (there are dedicted styleguides for this, just google), then contribute to a pretty complex program. An introductory book on ANSI-C is good to have

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-22 Thread Armin Faltl
Hello Vladimir, the point in not using a text file format for this but a relational database with SQL is not the data storage but the capabilities of the database server. It allows modeling of relations and more important, relational queries. This can look something like: SELECT elem.footprint

Re: gEDA-user: im new, soy nuevo

2010-04-22 Thread Armin Faltl
as troll with this last post of mine on the subject. Btw, where can I learn Jive? Armin Jan Wagemakers wrote: Armin Faltl schreef: ich hoffe niemand hat Probleme damit, dass ich hier jetzt in Deutsch schreibe. I understand a little-bit German (aber meine Deutsche sprache is nich

Re: gEDA-user: im new, soy nuevo

2010-04-19 Thread Armin Faltl
Guten Abend allerseits, ich hoffe niemand hat Probleme damit, dass ich hier jetzt in Deutsch schreibe. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Armin Good evening everyone, I hope nobody has troube with me writing German here now. Best Wishes, Armin Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: Hi all: El 16/04/10 15:01

Re: gEDA-user: Patch to PCB build system needs testing/feedback

2010-04-19 Thread Armin Faltl
Leaving out the commandline in a build can open all sorts of cans with worms. Most commandline flags control parts of header files (-DHAVE_STRANGE_MOFOS -I/other/weired/headers) and getting this wrong is a show-stopper with my bugs... I feel make V=0.5 would be ideal: omit the stuff if everythin

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-19 Thread Armin Faltl
Stefan Salewski wrote: Armin, have you tried the suggestion of DJ: ste...@amd64x2 ~/armin $ gsch2pcb project.txt Please try File->Import schematic in the latest PCB, it should work (and needs more testing! :) I can not do this currently, because I am still using 2009 snapshot of PCB s

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-18 Thread Armin Faltl
tifiers in gEDA-interfaces in a gEDA handbook. Best Regards, Armin P.S.: I'm a big fan of good offline documentation. A downloadable set of HTML-pages like e.g. PostgreSQL has it is one of my favourites. Armin Faltl wrote: OMG, it works! Thanks Stefan for all the help. Now the week

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-17 Thread Armin Faltl
OMG, it works! Thanks Stefan for all the help. Now the weekend has started. I'll start a "Naming conventions and restrictions" page to describe this and put on the wiki. In the long run, this should be fixed in the parser(s) though. Best Regards, Armin Stefan Salewski wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-17 Thread Armin Faltl
The 'RADIAL_CAN 200' I used to replace Luciani-footprints (I don't blame him but the parser), after this proved non-working. It is interesting to note, that in the file Hauptplatine_v1.new.pcb generated by gsch2pcb, they translate to "RADIAL_CAN-200" in the Element-definition. Maybe it is some

Re: gEDA-user: input/output ports gschem

2010-04-17 Thread Armin Faltl
DO-41.fp is a footprint of the Luciani-collection as well. Armin Faltl wrote: As Stefan Salewski reported, I missed in my attachments: RES-1016-630-240.fp -> RES-1016P-630L-240D__Yageo-MFR-25.fp is a symbolic link I made to a Luciani footprint. Sorry for the inconvenience. Ar

Re: gEDA-user: input/output ports gschem

2010-04-17 Thread Armin Faltl
As Stefan Salewski reported, I missed in my attachments: RES-1016-630-240.fp -> RES-1016P-630L-240D__Yageo-MFR-25.fp is a symbolic link I made to a Luciani footprint. Sorry for the inconvenience. Armin Armin Faltl wrote: Hi, I'm new in this group but here because I seek help to fi

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-17 Thread Armin Faltl
Not because of the bugs I ran into but since choosing a footprint is a difficult process in it self I was longing for a footprint browser. The easiest place to start a clean implementation may be gattrib, that I found conventient to duplicate footprint choices, once one has been assigned gschem. H

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-16 Thread Armin Faltl
problem reproducable? Dipl. Ing. Armin Faltl Mechatroniker für Maschinen- u. Fertigungstechnik & Schlosserei Heinrich Leflergasse 6, A-1220 Wien e-mail: armin.fa...@aon.at mobile: +43 664/547 68 68 phone : +43 1 282 86 38 UID-Nr: ATU-56556122 ___ geda-

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-16 Thread Armin Faltl
ristics (1 ounce, 2 ounce, FR2, FR4, ...) - HF electrical charateristics, thermal,... It would however be very convenient for me, if I can be sure, that missing pins in the ratsnest tool are not due to an incompatible choice of footprint for a symbol. Armin Faltl ___

Re: gEDA-user: input/output ports gschem

2010-04-16 Thread Armin Faltl
net while in the netlister some_net cleary lists hugo-1. In the rats there is a "Can't find hu pin 1 called for..." instead. This is an indication of redundant datastructures and buggy mapping. *end analysis* It would be intelligent btw, to mention the netname on which the mis

Re: gEDA-user: input/output ports gschem

2010-04-16 Thread Armin Faltl
Please keep that patch for you. Without proper QA I do not want to see it and by no means in the main distribution - you may send it to Luis Palo in person of course. Best Regards, Armin Faltl Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote: Hi, Well I just modified s_netattrib.c in gnetlist to do

Re: gEDA-user: input/output ports gschem

2010-04-16 Thread Armin Faltl
ted to some_net while in the netlister some_net cleary lists hugo-1. In the rats there is a "Can't find hu pin 1 called for..." instead. This is an indication of redundant datastructures and buggy mapping. *end analysis* It would be intelligent btw, to mention the netname on which t

Re: gEDA-user: input/output ports gschem

2010-04-16 Thread Armin Faltl
oops, I meant send it to Duncan Drennan - this comes with sloopy QA ;-) Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote: Hi, Well I just modified s_netattrib.c in gnetlist to do the assumption, and seems to work. But I think this is part of the front end? With some extra time reading the code, a bett

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