Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
My list of wishes and complaints still contains a load of items. If you don't mind, I'll go on posting them in this thread. Next one is: Currently, the letters of a new netname attribute touch the corresponding net. Please place the attribute at a decent distance (e.g. 50

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread peter
PS: My feature requests have been deleted from the BTS. So I'll stop posting them there. They haven't -- they've been moved to the Feature Requests part of the bug tracker system. I did it. Please please do continue putting them in the tracker! Thanks, Peter :)

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:31:19 +0100, peter-rDcdRWvjh1wqdlJmJB21zg wrote: PS: My feature requests have been deleted from the BTS. They haven't -- they've been moved to the Feature Requests part of the bug tracker system. Oups. Sorry for the inconvenience. I was ignorant of this sourceforge

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread John Doty
On Jul 4, 2007, at 4:09 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Currently, the letters of a new netname attribute touch the corresponding net. Please place the attribute at a decent distance (e.g. 50 units offset). The attribute goes wherever the cursor

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:49:59 -0600, John Doty wrote: The attribute goes wherever the cursor is. Just move the cursor to where you want it before aa. Hmm. If I want to attach a netname to a specific net, I usually select the net and do ee. The hot spot of the resulting attribute string will

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread DJ Delorie
In case of aa: How does gschem know, which net the netname attribute should be logically attached to? Click on the net to select it. Put the mouse cursor where you want the attribute. Hit aa. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread John Doty
On Jul 4, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:49:59 -0600, John Doty wrote: The attribute goes wherever the cursor is. Just move the cursor to where you want it before aa. Hmm. If I want to attach a netname to a specific net, I usually select the net and

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi all, On Wednesday 04 July 2007 19:40, John Doty wrote: On Jul 4, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: In case of aa: How does gschem know, which net the netname attribute should be logically attached to? It attaches the attribute to the selected net. It places the attribute where

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread John Griessen
Werner Hoch wrote: I didn't know about this feature and thus I wondered whether it is part of the documentation or whether I should add it. And surprise: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gschem_ug#attribute..._aa I've been using it, but did not know about the possible gain from moving the

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread Carlos Nieves Ónega
El mié, 04-07-2007 a las 10:09 +, Kai-Martin Knaak escribió: My list of wishes and complaints still contains a load of items. If you don't mind, I'll go on posting them in this thread. Next one is: Currently, the letters of a new netname attribute touch the

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-04 Thread Carlos Nieves Ónega
El mié, 04-07-2007 a las 22:08 +0200, Carlos Nieves Ónega escribió: However, I tested it before posting, and it is not currently working. The reason is that world_get_single_object_bounds is returning something like left=100 right=120 bottom=395 top=405 for an horizontal net, when some time

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:31:20 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote: Then the workflow would be: 1. Down symbol. If it's possible to edit the original library symbol, you have the option to; otherwise it opens the embedded version for editing. 2. Save symbol. If you're editing the embedded

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-02 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
If a symbol was changed after down-symbol these changese very likely are intended to propagate to the current schematic. Currently, this involves manual interaction by the user: a) save symbol b) do up-symbol c) select the affected symbols d) do update symbols Step c) is particular error prone,

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (5)

2007-07-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 02 July 2007 18:24:03 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: If a symbol was changed after down-symbol these changese very likely are intended to propagate to the current schematic. Currently, this involves manual interaction by the user: a) save symbol b) do up-symbol c) select the affected