Re: gEDA-user: How do I get pcb to automatically load my personal pcb-elements directory

2009-04-29 Thread dfro
DJ, That worked. Thanks. Dave DJ Delorie wrote: I can get pcb to find the directory using the projects file and gsch2pcb technique, but I would like 'pcb-elements' to show up in the pcb library window automatically whenever I launch pcb. Edit ~/.pcb/settings: lib-newlib =

Re: gEDA-user: How do I get pcb to automatically load my personal pcb-elements directory

2009-04-29 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:10:59 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Edit ~/.pcb/settings: lib-newlib = /envy/dj/geda/gedasymbols/www/user/dj_delorie/footprints:. In my case, the setting is in ~/.pcb/preferences and the setting is library-newlib = ~/geda/footprints:~/geda/luciani Is there any difference

Re: gEDA-user: How do I get pcb to automatically load my personal pcb-elements directory

2009-04-29 Thread DJ Delorie
How do .pcb/settings relate to .pcb/preferences? preferences is where the gtk hit saves all its own preferences. Settings is read by the core and affects all the hids. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: How do I get pcb to automatically load my personal pcb-elements directory

2009-04-29 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:45:41 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: How do .pcb/settings relate to .pcb/preferences? preferences is where the gtk hit saves all its own preferences. Settings is read by the core and affects all the hids. Can both files contain the same set of variables? Which file takes

Re: gEDA-user: How do I get pcb to automatically load my personal pcb-elements directory

2009-04-29 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:12:58 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Can both files contain the same set of variables? Yes, but the gtk one will get overwritten, so anything that gtk/core doesn't understand shouldn't go in there. Which file takes precedence in case of conflicting values? Good

gEDA-user: How do I get pcb to automatically load my personal pcb-elements directory

2009-04-28 Thread dfro
I am wondering how do I get pcb to automatically load my pcb-elements directory. I can get pcb to find the directory using the projects file and gsch2pcb technique, but I would like 'pcb-elements' to show up in the pcb library window automatically whenever I launch pcb. Any thoughts? Thanks,

Re: gEDA-user: How do I get pcb to automatically load my personal pcb-elements directory

2009-04-28 Thread DJ Delorie
I can get pcb to find the directory using the projects file and gsch2pcb technique, but I would like 'pcb-elements' to show up in the pcb library window automatically whenever I launch pcb. Edit ~/.pcb/settings: lib-newlib = /envy/dj/geda/gedasymbols/www/user/dj_delorie/footprints:.