Re: gEDA-dev: UI concept screen-shotshttp://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/ui/

[Igor2 <igor2-at-NOSPAMinno_dot_bme_dot_hu>]

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Peter Clifton wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've gathered some of the UI concepts I've played with (some past,
>present) on-line at:
>
>http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/ui/
>
>There are some teasers for a possible UI to invoke a footprint picker.
>(Ok - I've just been working on the UI design as a distraction, it
>doesn't really launch the PCB library window yet).
>
>Feedback on any of them would be good.

They all look good and useful, I'm looking forward to see them in the CVS!

For the footprint selection, I would suggest to modify PCB so that it
has a --footprint-select command line argument with an optional 
preselected value. If called with this argument, PCB would pop up the
library window only and when a footprint is selected, it would write the
name on stdout and would quit. 

Advantages:
 - no need to double the footprint selection window
 - PCB has HIDs, who prefers a non-gtk hid can get the window he got used to

Disadvantages:
 - gschem and pcb would be bound together more, so it would be harder to
   use a different layout editor; as long as it's optional, it may be ok
 - PCB is hevyweight compared to an internal window or even compared to
   a specific software that does only footprint selection




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