Re: gEDA: Attributes

[Stefan Petersen <spe-at-NOSPAMstacken_dot_kth_dot_se>]

Hi Ales (and others)


> You are tarnishing my "no segfault" policy, Stefan.  Stop it.  <grin>
> Thanks for the bug report.

Ooopss sorry, you have a policy? ;-)  Ok this time it's no segfault thing
then. What should Attributes Attach do?? I have an attribute 'uref'
attached. I run Attributes Attach and gschem compilains:
	Attribute [uref=U103] already attached

Humm, but I want to attach an _other_ attribute. Noops. Ok I detach
'uref'. Works perfectly. The attribute gets red. Perfect! I can see that
the attribute isn't attached.

Ok I select the part now and runs Attribute Attach. Nothing
happens! Nothing! So it doesn´t segfault anymore, it does...nothing but
complaining. 

But... if you select the old uref and (by pressing down Ctrl) then also
select the component and finally selects Attribute Attach I get 
	You cannot attach non text items as attributes!
If you select the old uref and the component by using a square (press
mouse button, move, release mouse button) and selects Attribute Attach it
still complains but ... voila package got an attribute again.

Confused? Sorry, but at least it wasn't a segfault this time ;-)


> >The question is really; do we need the Attribute stuff (the whole pull
> >down in fact) like Attach, Detach et al since we have Matt's cool, new

[rant removed]
> Seriously, I use those options.

What I really meant was that the things you can do from the Attribute menu
you can do with Edit/Edit, so the Attribute menu felt redundant. I stand
corrected.

> Is Edit/Edit... not a good general name, or is it too general?

See above.

Good work Ales. This is what I call bugfixing. 

At the moment I am hacking some VHDL at work. I use Synopsys for synthesis
and Alliance for Place'n'Route (bundeled it's called FPGA Express). It's a
joke. Their "bugfixes" are non-existant. Synopsys manage to synthesis
together something Alliance can't read. And that's not the first bug I
experienced with it. And probably it's ridicously expensive too. I mention
names because I think they deserve it.

Regards,
/spe
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