Re: gEDA-user: Multiple open pages in gschem

[Steve Morss <smorss-atMUNGEDcatalinacomputing_dot_com>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> I'm hoping to conduct a brief census of people who use multiple pages in
> gschem. I'm working on some code-changes to libgeda which may change the
> navigation model slightly, and wanted to see how it is used now.
>
> This is a feature which confuses some new users, as it can make work
> "disappear" behind a new page.
>
> I'm also unsure if the "user-model" (what the user thinks the program
> does), matches the program's behaviour:
>
> Do you use multiple windows running from the same copy of gschem?
>
>   
No.

> Do you use multiple running copies of gschem?
>   
No, but if I had 2 designs and needed to reference one while drawing the 
other, I might.
> Do you use these for related schematics?
>   (Do you tend to have multiple pages from the same design?)
>
>   
The designs wouldn't be the same design (as stated above).
> How much use do you make of hierarchy traversal?
>   (Schematic or symbol down, up, page next, page previous)?
>
>   
Use symbol up and down to modify symbols.
> For testing, I've got a version of gschem which just opens a pages in a
> flat list. These can be traversed using toolbar buttons, just like a
> document viewer. This significantly simplifies some code, and UI
> presentation issues for a complex nested  hierarchy.
>
> I'm also considering it might be best to launch a new window for each
> hierarchy level, reserving multiple pages in one window to tie directly
> to the case where a single level of hierarchy has multiple pages.
>
> This is probably something I'll do whilst I develop the extended
> data-structure needed to be more flexible with viewing the hierarchy.
>
> Example screenshots are at:
>
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/gschem_page_navi.png
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/gschem_page_navi2.png
>
>   
Looks very good.  Nice to have a graphical way of going from page to 
page when getting started with gschem ; the current page manager can be 
awkward, as it often gets lost behind other windows.  Arrows are a nice 
touch, because they don't chew up a lot of screen real estate.

Steve
> (Same pic, just a different page loaded in each case).
>
> Regards.
>
>   



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