Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-07-01 Thread mitjan696-ubu...@yahoo.co.uk
While I like the idea of hooks I think there are a couple of things that should be implemented before and they should enable part of the workflow that you envision. To be specific, implementing action plugin interface in Project manager. Once this is in place a lot of hook actions could be impl

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-07-01 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 10:12 AM mitjan696-ubu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > > While I like the idea of hooks I think there are a couple of things that > should be implemented before and they should enable part of the workflow that > you envision. > > To be specific, implementing action plugin interfac

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-06-30 Thread Greg Smith
Regarding the plugin manager: it would be awesome if it could pull updates from the plugin author’s GitHub. Not sure exactly how to handle plugin version checking, KiCAD version compatibility and all the related issues (like security, forks, etc). But it’d be nice if there were a central registr

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-06-30 Thread Andrew Lutsenko
Plugin manager is in the works: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2242 There will be some progress over the long weekend. On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:06 PM Nick Østergaard wrote: > I like the sound of this idea, it could definitely help the workflow > for a lot of people. > > What may b

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-06-30 Thread Nick Østergaard
I like the sound of this idea, it could definitely help the workflow for a lot of people. What may be related to this is some properly "plugin" manager such that it is easier to bundle some script and have some script installed external, similar to the freecad addon manager. I don't remember if a

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-06-30 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 9:17 PM Mark Roszko wrote: > While more extensibility is great. I can only say expecting the user to > use python exclusively for adding the new behavior like for issue #2339 is > very crude. > I'm not saying any possible feature which can be replaced with a script should

Re: [Kicad-developers] Scripting hooks

2020-06-30 Thread Mark Roszko
While more extensibility is great. I can only say expecting the user to use python exclusively for adding the new behavior like for issue #2339 is very crude. Not everyone is a programmer or wants to be to draw a schematic. A lot of functionality that's not overly specific should be considered inte