Hello Svenn,
With the host site for Xcircuit/Win32 went down, there is no place to
get a updated native Xcircuit for windows user.
The ngspice guys have managed to create a version of tclspice which runs
on win7 without too much hassle for the end-user. I haven't looked into
what they do, but it may be a solution to bring the more frequently
updated Tcl/Tk version of xcircuit to the masses.
There is a fundamental difference, though, which is that ngspice is
mainly a number-crunching engine. Graphics aren't even part of the
original Berkeley spice3 distribution on which it's based, and what
graphics there are, are for displaying data generated by the engine.
So tclspice only really has to add a few simple Tcl commands for
start/stop/pause, and Tk can handle the plotting without having to
rely on low-level graphics calls.
I would certainly be in favor of the effort, but I think it's going
to be a lot more complicated than the tclspice port.
---Tim
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