Re: gEDA: Gschem modification proposal

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

Hi,

>I have two proposals for changes in gschem:
>
>1) Treat the text having name and "=" sign but no value as a legitimate 
>attribute. This will allow to make an empty attribute as "footprint=", that 
>will appear after editing a walue. Currently such attributes are treated as a 
>text and are not promoted nor the parameter Show_name_value controls their 
>visibility.


	Hmmmm..., it's a good idea, however, I purposefully view attributes
without a value as "broken".  I will look at this further to see if that
assumption can be changed.  (I just need to go through and make sure that
attributes without a value don't cause a core dump etc...)

	Okay, so an attribute is anything which is either name=value 
with no space(s) between the '=' or name= with no space(s) before the '='.

>
>2) Extend Visibility parameter with a new option (2) telling that the 
>attribute is not visible but can be promoted. This means that the attribute 
>is visible if visibility = 1  and promoted if is >= 1.  The change will make 
>possible creating the attributes that are editable but not visible (even 
>after editing). Now the attributes with visibility set to 0 are not promoted 
>(as device attribute).

	
	Also a good idea, however, what exactly are you trying to achieve
with this change?  If you want to force invisible attributes to be promote
then you can set the following in a *gschemrc and all invisible attributes
will be promoted:

(promote-invisible "enabled")

	This keyword is disabled by default.  If this is not what you want,
then let me know.  Thanks. 

								-Ales