Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-22 Thread John Doty
On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Does the slot keyword do anything other than define the beginning of a slot? I have no idea what you mean by beginning of a slot. The slot= attribute selects a slotdef= attribute. The slotdef= attribute controls pin numbering,

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 23:10 -0800, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Peter, Different symbols for each slot is no problem. I will try that tomorrow. I was messing around with the slot=1 slot=2 trying to make things work and getting no where. Does the slot keyword do anything other than

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-22 Thread kai-martin knaak
Oliver King-Smith wrote: Different symbols for each slot is no problem. The way geda defines the term slot, this does not work. A slot is the same symbol with a different set of pin numbers. People have even called geda slotting a general pinnumber renumber mechanism. Like Peter said, you

gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-21 Thread Oliver King-Smith
Is it possible to create a symbol with two types of slots. For example, in a 4 OR gates logic chip, one slot type would be the OR gate, while the other slot type would be the power connections. I see people typical wire the pins that are not part of a slot to nets, but that seems

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 16:52 -0800, Oliver King-Smith wrote: Is it possible to create a symbol with two types of slots. For example, in a 4 OR gates logic chip, one slot type would be the OR gate, while the other slot type would be the power connections. I see people typical wire the

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-21 Thread John Doty
On Nov 21, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: That is a slightly bad example though, as all the 74* symbols in the library also have hidden net= attributes which wire up their power pins. The idea is solid though. Every tutorial on gEDA should state up front: LIBRARY SYMBOLS ARE ONLY

Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol

2010-11-21 Thread Oliver King-Smith
__ From: Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk To: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 6:30:27 PM Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Different slot types within on symbol On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 16:52 -0800