Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Paddock
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Armin Faltl armin.fa...@aon.at wrote: Dreaming about mechanical cad features in pcb and how one best works to mechanical constrains on a pcb, knowing the latest and greates pcb use OpenGL and transparency anyway, http://code.google.com/p/toped/ is an IC Layout

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
Bob Paddock wrote: http://code.google.com/p/toped/ is an IC Layout Editor that puts the transparency to good use, as an example. Alas there are no screen shots in the project to show how it would apply to PCB. There are screen shots two in Chitlesh's page on fedora.org:

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Paddock
There are screen shots two in Chitlesh's page on fedora.org:  http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/gallery.html Thank you. What does the tope GUI differently to Peter Cliftons semi forked version of pcb? I've not run Peter's version so can't really comment. I'm all to slowly poking at a

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread kai-martin knaak
Bob Paddock wrote: Someone, some place, in the future will want to support something that none of us have ever heard of today. If there is a easy, well documented, Plug-In system, then they can implement what they need without having to figure out the internals of PCB. The downside is that

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Bob Paddock
Not being part of the distribution A well documented plug in should become part of the distribution. Undocumented code of any kind, should not. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-26 Thread Armin Faltl
Bob Paddock wrote: What is the benefit of plug-ins for this kind of infrastructure? IMHO, support of different image formats should be part of the main distribution. Someone, some place, in the future will want to support something that none of us have ever heard of today. If there is a

gEDA-user: foreign graphics overlay

2010-09-24 Thread Armin Faltl
Dreaming about mechanical cad features in pcb and how one best works to mechanical constrains on a pcb, knowing the latest and greates pcb use OpenGL and transparency anyway, how about providing a plugin-mechanism, that allows to render DXF, SVG,..., bitmaps of common types and such on a