Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread Oliver King-Smith
@moria.seul.org Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 4:12:18 AM Subject: Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers IIRC, gattrib will handle attributes embedded in the schematic, not the symbol. The reason is that gattrb cannot reach into a symbol and modify its attributes. It only edits

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread John Doty
On Feb 9, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: It seems like gnetlist could be used to promote an attribute to the schematic. No. Gnetlist can't do that kind of schematic to schematic translation. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread Oliver King-Smith
, 2011 6:48:02 AM Subject: Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers On Feb 9, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: It seems like gnetlist could be used to promote an attribute to the schematic. No. Gnetlist can't do that kind of schematic to schematic translation

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-09 Thread John Doty
On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: So gnetlist does not know which schematic file it is operating on when it is processing data? That's just one of many kinds of information a gnetlist back end cannot access. The front end thoroughly digests the input, and only presents

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not showing part_numbers

2011-02-08 Thread John Doty
On Feb 8, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Does anyone know if this is a feature or bug? It's the way it works. Whether it's a bug depends on what you're trying to do. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not a good spreadsheet editor

2010-06-30 Thread Bob Paddock
    intermediate file in comma separated spread sheet format. I've found Tab Separated Value (TSV) is easier to implement and more reliable, than CSV. Spread sheets like Excel can get CSV handling wrong in some edge cases, like nested quoted commas, mis-matched quotes etc. Excel, and as far I

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib not a good spreadsheet editor

2010-06-30 Thread John Doty
On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: That said, it looks like your are talking about using an editor for the the job gattrib does? That would be neat. Even better would be, if the file were in spread sheet format. Seems to me, gattrib has a hard time

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:35 -0700, phil wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: Take a look at the symbol file in a text editor. Attribute blocks, beginning { ...} should only follow a pin line P, net line N, component line C. gattrib is continuing to go down when saving my .sch file. Is that

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread phil
Peter Clifton wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:35 -0700, phil wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: What exact version of gattrib and gEDA are you using. Where did it come from (distro / build from source etc..)? Peter, Thank you for the help. With DJ holding my hand last nite on IRC I was able to

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:02 -0700, phil wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:35 -0700, phil wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: What exact version of gattrib and gEDA are you using. Where did it come from (distro / build from source etc..)? Peter, Thank you for the help.

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread phil
Peter Clifton wrote: It could be that the problem stems from something wrong in one of the symbols your schematic references. You are right. My problem was with an attribute inside a footprint: pinlable=x not pinlabel=x I changed those two letters and it all worked itself out. The

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:03 -0700, phil wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: It could be that the problem stems from something wrong in one of the symbols your schematic references. You are right. My problem was with an attribute inside a footprint: pinlable=x not pinlabel=x I changed

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:02 -0700, phil wrote: Running Gattrib version: 1.4.0.20080127 I get the error message In s_object_attrib_add_attrib_in_object, trying to add attrib to non-complex or non-net! upon saving of my file. Is there any way to narrow down what gattrib is balking at?

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-03 Thread phil
Peter Clifton wrote: Take a look at the symbol file in a text editor. Attribute blocks, beginning { ...} should only follow a pin line P, net line N, component line C. gattrib is continuing to go down when saving my .sch file. I scoured the file for attributes attached to items other than

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Bushroe
John, Are you even reading my posts? You comments, even when directly connected to quotes of my own text seem completely unrelated and non sequiturs, and often self contradictory. On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: John Doty: These refer to the

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

2010-04-28 Thread John Doty
On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Mike Bushroe wrote: What process ? You have used that term many times without giving any examples. Concrete example: Board fabrication by PCB Express and board population by Screaming Circuits. Each has their own rules about what they can do for the base

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Bushroe
I guess part of my problem with gschem, pcb, and gsch2pcb is that I never understood what gattrib was for. I though it was an internal function used by gschem and gsch2pcb to get the values of symbols attributes out of the schematic file. I never realized it was intended for humans

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

2010-04-27 Thread John Doty
On Apr 27, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: 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. My personal view is that schematics should use the conventions in the gEDA documentation:

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

2010-04-27 Thread Mike Bushroe
John Doty: These refer to the device, not the pattern of copper on the board. The pattern of copper corresponding to a given device footprint should be chosen in the layout process, because it depends (like other layout parameters) on the manufacturing processes. I am

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

2010-04-27 Thread John Doty
On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: John Doty: These refer to the device, not the pattern of copper on the board. The pattern of copper corresponding to a given device footprint should be chosen in the layout process, because it depends (like other layout

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib

2010-04-27 Thread John Doty
On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: As pointed out above, a DIP-16 is a through-hole device in any process, the pins are always 0.100 inches apart, the part number defines if it is a typical 300 mill spacing, or a wide 600 mill. What ever process you use to attach the

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib: Adding new attribute columns

2009-05-19 Thread Andy Fierman
Bug report posted . ID: 2793743 :) BTW the version I'm using pops up various messages about things not being implemented yet such as opening a file, finding or searching for attributes. Is that what you'd expect from this version? Thanks, Andy

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib: Adding new attribute columns

2009-05-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 11:36:39 Andy Fierman wrote: Bug report posted . ID: 2793743 :) BTW the version I'm using pops up various messages about things not being implemented yet such as opening a file, finding or searching for attributes. Is that what you'd expect from this version?

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib: Adding new attribute columns

2009-05-18 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi -- Say I have attributes A, B , and D in my schematic and I want to add a new attribute C to all the components. All my components have attribute information already entered for each of A, B and D. When I run gattrib, I get a table with column headings A, B and D with data under each

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib: Adding new attribute columns

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Fierman
Hi Stuart, Should I file a bug report? Should have said: I'm running the 64bit debs from the Mepis 8 repos on a dual core Athlon machine. 2009/5/18 Stuart Brorson s...@cloud9.net: Hi -- Say I have attributes A, B , and D in my schematic and I want to add a new attribute C to all the

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib: Adding new attribute columns

2009-05-18 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi, Yes, please file a bug report. I can't promise anything will happen quickly, but we're talking about holding a code sprint not too long from now, and this will be action item #1 at the sprint. Stuart On Mon, 18 May 2009, Andy Fierman wrote: Hi Stuart, Should I file a bug report?

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib hacking (was: Re: libgd -- which programs uses it)

2009-02-22 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi Gareth -- Stuart, I have a few questions about some of the design of gattrib - is it OK to mail you off-list to discuss? I'm happy to see people using and hacking gattrib! Feel free to e-mail me at sdb (at) cloud9 (dot) net. I may not remember all the details of how the code works, but

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib hacking

2009-02-21 Thread John Griessen
Gareth Edwards wrote: Talking of which... I've been making a pass through the Doxygen documentation for gattrib in preparation for some changes I've been planning . . . the changes are on the doxying branch of git://repo.or.cz/geda-gaf/gde.git (browsable at

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib text size

2008-10-27 Thread Stuart Brorson
In gschem I have my default text size set as 8. If I add attributes via gattrib then the text is added as size 10. Obviously these are two separate programmes and gattrib is not dependant on the settings in my gschemrc, so this behaviour is kind of expected. Is there any way to set the

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib text size

2008-10-27 Thread Stuart Brorson
I forget the exact behavior of gattrib, but I can say that gattrib *does* read the gafrc file. Therefore, try putting a text-size declaration in your gafrc file. I tried putting (text-size 8) into the gafrc file and removed it from the gschemrc file. Text added in gschem is then back to the

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib text size

2008-10-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 07:35 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote: I forget the exact behavior of gattrib, but I can say that gattrib *does* read the gafrc file. Therefore, try putting a text-size declaration in your gafrc file. I tried putting (text-size 8) into the gafrc file and removed it

Re: gEDA-user: [gattrib] OS X cut/paste

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Maney
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:36:35PM -0700, John Doty wrote: On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote: Is there something wacky about OS X's implementation of X11 w.r.t. copy/paste, or have I stumbled into a gattrib bug? When in gattrib, I can select and copy (or at least appear to

Re: gEDA-user: [gattrib] OS X cut/paste

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Stovenour
Message From: Timothy Normand Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:40:02 PM Subject: Re: gEDA-user: [gattrib] OS X cut/paste On 12/13/07, Dave N6NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there something

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib inserting a space before every csv column?

2007-12-11 Thread Steven Michalske
i rather have tab separated files for readability, this also helps prevent issues where decmial points are written as commas. steve On Dec 11, 2007 10:37 AM, Michael Stovenour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the 20070912 snapshot. When exporting to CSV in gattrib, it puts an extra space

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib for symbols?

2007-02-23 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi, Can I use gattrib to edit the attributes of a symbol? I have some largish symbols that I'm incrementally working on, and editing attributes such as pintype and pinseq are a burden. (Meaning I see no way to do it within gschem.) But when I try to load a symbol file into gattrib I get a

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib crashes when window is resized

2006-07-31 Thread Stuart Brorson
Not sure if this is a known problem? Everything else seems to work fine. I'm running on an up-to-date Gentoo box. I've attached a gdb backtrace. Any help would be appreciated. Or even pointing me in the right direction to solve the problem myself. I checked out the latest CVS code and poked