Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-25 Thread John Doty
On Jul 25, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > John Doty wrote: > >> Changing the color does not attach it. > > Yes, this is what I expected. > >> And symbol attributes that aren't associated with a particular pin >> generally should not be attached within the symbol. > > Sorry, this agai

Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-25 Thread Stefan Salewski
John Doty wrote: >Changing the color does not attach it. Yes, this is what I expected. >And symbol attributes that aren't associated with a particular pin >generally should not be attached within the symbol. Sorry, this again confuses me. Attributes attached to pins like "pinnumber" are yellow

Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-25 Thread John Doty
On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> Attributes which are attached to or part of a symbol or other >> schematic >> object are shown in yellow in the default colour scheme. Unattached >> attributes are shown in red. > > When I load an existing symbol i

Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-25 Thread John Doty
On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Willem Granjé wrote: > > Peter TB Brett wrote: > > >Unattached attributes are shown in red. > > ok, so how to attach it in gschem when editing the symbol? If the attribute is unattached within the symbol file, gnetlist will treat it as associated with the symbol, j

Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-25 Thread Willem Granjé
> Peter TB Brett wrote: > > >Unattached attributes are shown in red. > ok, so how to attach it in gschem when editing the symbol? but note the weird thing: when adding a footprint to a stock symbol and saving it to a custom file: the footprint is red when editing the symbol, using the custom symb

Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-25 Thread Stefan Salewski
Peter TB Brett wrote: >Attributes which are attached to or part of a symbol or other schematic >object are shown in yellow in the default colour scheme. Unattached >attributes are shown in red. When I load an existing symbol into gschem (gschem oldsym.sym) and add an attribute like "footprint" or

Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 24 July 2008 06:49:56 Willem Granjé wrote: > Dear All, > > I've made some custom symbols and I'm troubled by the color of attributes: > > when I take a stock symbol to start with, the color of the attributes > is yellow, when I add some new attributes they are shown in red, why? > > whe

Re: gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-24 Thread Stefan Salewski
Willem Granjé wrote: >Dear All, >I've made some custom symbols and I'm troubled by the color of attributes: >when I take a stock symbol to start with, the color of the attributes >is yellow, when I add some new attributes they are shown in red, why? >when I place the new symbol in a project and

gEDA-user: gchem: color attributes in custom symbols

2008-07-23 Thread Willem Granjé
Dear All, I've made some custom symbols and I'm troubled by the color of attributes: when I take a stock symbol to start with, the color of the attributes is yellow, when I add some new attributes they are shown in red, why? when I place the new symbol in a project and hit 'en': a newly added fo