Re: gEDA-user: API documentation for writing a PCB plugin ?

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Clubley
On 18/09/2008, DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does any such documentation exist or is it a case of starting by > > examining the source code of the existing plugins? > > Start by reading some of the simple ones, like my findrat. > > http://www.delorie.com/pcb/findrat.c > Thank you.

Re: gEDA-user: API documentation for writing a PCB plugin ?

2008-09-18 Thread DJ Delorie
> What I have not yet found is any formal API documentation for the > plugin architecture. There isn't one. We just dynamically load whatever we find. As long as your plugin uses the same registration features that others use, and has a "main" function called pcb_plugin_init(), it can call any

gEDA-user: API documentation for writing a PCB plugin ?

2008-09-18 Thread Simon Clubley
Thanks to the discussions here over the last few days, I've just found out that PCB users who are also programmers can write their own plugins for use with PCB (a fact that doesn't appear to be documented within the PCB manual - I tried grepping the documentation for plugin after I realised that th