Re: gEDA-user: gschem crash on object drag

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Brett
in the latest unstable 1.7.x releases, but we do not provide Ubuntu packages for these. Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda

Re: gEDA-user: gschem gnetlist problem

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Brett
have time right now. File feature requests? :-) Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin

Re: gEDA-user: command autocomplete (gtk)

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Brett
think you should remove it, personally. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA file format - couple of questions on attributes.

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Brett
*must* match '^(.*[^ ])=([^ ].*)$' (multiline) at the moment. -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Unicode and Guile [was: couple of questions on attributes.]

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Brett
[ This is a really dull e-mail. You can probably safely skip it. ] John Doty j...@noqsi.com writes: On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Peter Brett wrote: 1) We need to support gnetlist backends when gEDA is compiled against Guile 1.8.x, which doesn't understand UTF-8. BTW, if you want to use

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA file format - couple of questions on attributes.

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Brett
than \0). Also, they (randomly) may not start with a space. Since the gEDA file format requires UTF-8, please make sure your parser raises the alarm if it encounters encoding errors. Cheers, Peter P.S. I'm hoping to tighten up the rules on attributes soon-ish. -- Peter

gEDA-user: Scheme API branch merged

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Brett
with the development of these changes: * Peter Clifton * Ludovic Courtès * John Doty * Gareth Edwards * John Griessen * Neil Jerram * Josh Jordan * Dan McMahill * Maciej Pijanka * Ivan Stankovic * Matthew Wampler-Doty * Andy Wingo -- Peter Brett pe

Re: gEDA-user: gschem saving symbols

2011-06-20 Thread Peter Brett
processing. That's why the branch exists. There's a bug in the script, by the way: it also needs to un-translate the resulting symbol to the page origin. I'll fix it at some point. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space

Re: gEDA-user: help request: gnetlist not reading scm files

2011-06-16 Thread Peter Brett
' for a full list of available backends. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: gEDA-user: Fixing the attribute censorship bug

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Brett
John Doty j...@noqsi.com writes: On Jun 1, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Peter Brett wrote: John Doty j...@noqsi.com writes: On May 31, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Peter Brett wrote: This script deliberately poisons the netlist. Exactly. This is consistent with other gnetlist behavior. If no attribute

Re: gEDA-user: Fixing the attribute censorship bug

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Brett
John Doty j...@noqsi.com writes: On May 31, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Peter Brett wrote: This script deliberately poisons the netlist. Exactly. This is consistent with other gnetlist behavior. If no attribute is found, the resulting value is unknown. So, I think Yes, and that behaviour

Re: gEDA-user: Fixing the attribute censorship bug

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Brett
share your preference for this behaviour: does loading this scm file from a configuration file work? :-) Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Brett
to send the incorrect message that using it is a good idea. I've been thinking of nuking g_rc_component_library_search() and reimplementing it as a Scheme extension, and I would gladly accept a patch that does this. Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Brett
, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Brett
1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? In my case: yes. :-/ Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre

Re: gEDA-user: current working file name in gschemrc

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Brett
that accepts Postscript on stdin and a destination filename as its argument. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre - Original message - Now, I got stuck with the next step: Copy the pdf produced by cups-pdf in $HOME/PDF

Re: gEDA-user: current working file name in gschemrc

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Brett
. :-) http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Writing.html#index-simple_002dformat-2052 Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Fix so symbol directories cannot be loaded twice

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Brett
your problem. ;-) Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre - Original message - Dear Peter, Commands of the form (component-library dir) I had placed in a gafrc were getting called multiple times, so a lot of copies

Re: gEDA-user: ANNOUNCE: New gEDA Scheme extension API

2010-11-06 Thread Peter Brett
. :-)                         Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Brett
separator instead of . caused huge fonts IIRC. Can't remember if that was pre-1.6.0 though. In any case, you should really be using 1.6.1! :P Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre

Re: gEDA-user: Dashed Line Disappearing Detail and 1.6.1

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Brett
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lltdl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Install libtool-ltdl-devel. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda

Re: gEDA-user: Beginner Confusion

2009-12-26 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message -       http://www.gpleda.org/sources.html claims that the development version is 1.5.4 and that the stable version is 1.6.0 Shouldn't the development version be a 1.7.x type of number based on a stable 1.6? There hasn't yet been a release in the 1.7.x series since

Re: gEDA-user: gschem 1.5.2.20090328

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message - I've hit this problem a couple of times now.  Any plain text on the schematic is messing up the backend processing.  The most recent problem occurred when I made a very minor change, rotated a connector on the schematic.  Gnetlist -g PCB reports read garbage and

Re: gEDA-user: xgsch2pcb does not play nice with hierarchical design

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message - My current project contains a moderate hierarchy. It is basically a main schematic sheet with two sub-sheets. By default, only the main schematic appears in xgsch2pcb. To edit the sub-sheets, I have to fall back to the Down Schematic action in gschem. This kind of

Re: gEDA-user: Generate PS with gschem-lightbg, display editor in gschem-darkbg

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message - is there a possibility to have generated PS files in the lightbg scheme and yet still edit the gschem files with the darkdb scheme? I fiddled with the options in gschemrc -- all I achieved was to change the background color of the generated PS file to white while

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Brett
). Unfortunately, full Unicode *printing* isn't supported yet (though save/load/display are), so I'm afraid you might need to hold off for a bit. What about different typefaces? can I somehow select a font? Not yet, sorry. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Brett
could try building your own GTK+ packages, if you're feeling keen. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Brett
, for example. One big advantage of ODF export would be the ability to embed schematics losslessly into ODF presentations. Peter ;-) -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre

Re: gEDA-user: Gschem/Custom Symbol/Path

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Brett
/gafrc.d/ What would ${prefix} be on a debian system? This should tell you. ;-) which gschem | sed -e 's:/bin.*::' Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Brett
times before. Ironically, one of the weaknesses of gEDA is a lack of scriptability. Even pcb with all its actions is only half way there. All I can say is, Watch this space. ;) Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space

Re: gEDA-user: a note from a novice user

2006-07-26 Thread Peter Brett
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:42, Igor2 wrote: Another interesting approach would be to provide a live cd. There are many live linux distros out there, so it would be possible to add gEDA to one of them. This way the 'lazy' user could try out the system without needing to understand parts of