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

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 06:49 +0200, Igor2 wrote:

> 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. 

Something with an action script should work.

> 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

To combat this, I thought it would be most appropriate to make the
"picker" invocation via a guile script. This could allow you to insert
different guile scripts for different layout editors, or footprint
sources.

Agreed PCB is a little heavy-weight, but we'll see how it actually works
out when I eventually get around to coding something.

Peter




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