Re: gEDA-user: text labels on symbols, DRY, colon cancer, and redundant, repetitive redundancy.

2009-06-11 Thread Miles Gazic
> > Would anyone be opposed to having the netlister assume a :1 for net= > > attributes without a colon? > There was a patch for this available, but it did not make it in the > official code. I would love it if I didn't need the :1 on netlist names.  Right now I do not have :1 on my net names, and

gEDA-user: Xvfb allows 'printing' with gschem with a headless server (was: Breadboard drawings with pcb?)

2009-05-26 Thread Miles Gazic
plete without the dreaded "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display". In my case I am trying to do the above on a machine I don't have root access on, where there's already a display server running on :0, so I just picked a random other display to run Xvfb on. - Miles On Tue, May 2

Re: gEDA-user: Breadboard drawings with pcb?

2009-05-26 Thread Miles Gazic
I have this same problem, because I automate my build with makefiles, and I'd like to have a build machine (that doesn't run X) be able to build everything (mostly software, but also PNGs and PDFs of my schematics, along with running DRC, making a netlist, etc.) I did a search for an alternate way

Re: gEDA-user: building gEDA for cygwin

2009-05-20 Thread Miles Gazic
I have 1.4.1.20080929, that's the only version I've tried to build. - Miles On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Alberto Maccioni wrote: > Has anyone been able to compile gEDA v1.4.3 with cygwin? > I can only build 1.4.2, but not 1.4.1 > What about v1.5.x? It needs GTK 2.8 but unfortynately cygwin o

Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

2009-05-11 Thread Miles Gazic
I agree it's a waste of time to port gEDA to windows, and that a cross-platform library is the way to go. I've used SDL a bit, but I wouldn't pick it for this. I'd (personally) pick Qt, and recommend porting gEDA to Qt, so there'd be one unified code base, instead of a separate codebase for unix+

Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

2009-05-07 Thread Miles Gazic
>> For software to be truly expert friendly, it must use languages >> that are meaningful in the application domain, and lots of >> extendability.  To a circuit designer, that is not C, Scheme, >> M4, or XML. > > The ones I know circuit designers use are verilog, perl and python. > and then there a

Re: gEDA-user: Netlisting a BOM

2009-04-30 Thread Miles Gazic
I think the file you are missing is "attribs" http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gnetlist mine: $ cat attribs device value manufacturer manufacturer_part_number footprint On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Rob Butts wrote: > >   I'm trying to use gnetlist -g bom -o...  to generate a bill of >

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA attributes -- why not in this simple way

2009-04-09 Thread Miles Gazic
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM, John Doty wrote: > >> >> Where is the problem by this simple approach? >> > > Cognitive dissonance in the minds of users and developers, whose > minds actually work hierarchically, but who expect, based on > traditional practices, that component management is flat.

Re: gEDA-user: Why are visible attributes in a .sym not visible in my .sch?

2009-04-08 Thread Miles Gazic
John wrote: > Huh? Not the way it works for me (currently using gEDA/gschem version > 1.4.3.20081231). Unpromoted visible attributes from the sym are > visible in the schematic, you just can't edit them. Are you sure > you've marked them visible? Yes, absolutely sure. This happens on 1.4.1.2008092

Re: gEDA-user: Why are visible attributes in a .sym not visible in my .sch?

2009-04-08 Thread Miles Gazic
> > I have attributes in my symbol files that I mark as "visible".  This > >    makes them visible when editing the .sym file, but NOT when editing > >    the .sch file. > > I don't think so. I think if I add visible attributes to a symbol, they > are visible (and edible) in the schematic. > > I th

gEDA-user: Why are visible attributes in a .sym not visible in my .sch?

2009-04-07 Thread Miles Gazic
I have attributes in my symbol files that I mark as "visible". This makes them visible when editing the .sym file, but NOT when editing the .sch file. I do not want them "promoted" (which I think will copy the text of them to the contents of my .sch files, when a symbol is inserte