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RE: gEDA-dev: New diagram (attempt at UML)
Hi Peter and all on the list again,
A bit more of my thoughts on multiple pages in one gschem file, since I
was in a hurry this morning when writing the former e-mail.
What I tried to convey was the idea of concatenating pages into one file
separated by a next page marker.
This marker is for graphical representation only, it would only
determine which symbol/net/graphic entity is painted on which canvas
(page 1, page 2, etc).
For example: it would mean that an example design like GTAG could be in
one single file.
For the internals of gschem I guess it probably wouldn't require a too
large rewrite of code (OTOH, how would I know, since I'm not at all
familiar with the codebase, so apply salt where needed ;-)
It would probably not break any old gschem files, because if there is no
"next page" marker until the EOF is reached, it would become a single
page file when it is loaded.
For gnetlist backends, gsch2pcb et al, this would mean that they
should/could ignore such a marker, since it has nothing to do with
hierarchy in itself.
For gattrib it would probably require more tabs (one for each page in
the file) or another column stating the page number.
For printing the printing dialog should be changed to allow for printing
a single page (current ?), a range of pages, or all pages.
When hierachy is involved this approach could be used to avoid multiple
instances of the same circuit to be drawn.
For instance: page-1.R101, page-2.R101, ...
Or with multiple files: file-1.page-1.R101, file-1.page-2.R101,
file-2.page-1.R101, ...
Or in short: F1.P1.R101, F1.P2.R101, F2.P1.R101, ...
Added functions for handling pages in a single file would have to be:
- Copy/cut/paste page
- Page next/previous arrows
- Insert new page here/Delete page/move page before ...
Maybe a Google SoC project ?
Just my EUR 0.02
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
-----Original Message-----
From: geda-dev-bounces@moria.seul.org
[mailto:geda-dev-bounces@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of L.J.H. Timmerman
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 7:06 AM
To: gEDA developer mailing list
Subject: Re: gEDA-dev: New diagram (attempt at UML)
Hi Peter and all on the list,
About multiple pages: at the end of the schematic file one could add a
marker for a next page and add the following pages.
The demo with tabs Ales showed the other days could be a way to display
the to the user.
<snip>
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