PTT, I am looking to add plot support. It is something I use often.
What do you think of add this project to an external repository to let people contribute and when you release "stable/good" version we ask KiCad folks to integrate those releases. Cheers, 2015-01-07 16:42 GMT-02:00 PTT <[email protected]>: > I do intend to update and improve the parts that I use, though that won't > cover all use cases so I hope other people will extend it too. > > Thanks for the remarks about formatting, I totally agree, that's updated > now. > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 1/7/2015 8:33 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: >> > On 07.01.2015 11:36, PTT wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> First of all thanks for all the good work, I recently switched to KiCAD >> >> because of the added scripting support which I needed for scripted >> button >> >> placement on a pcb. >> >> >> > >> > Hi Piers, >> > >> > Very nice work, thanks! IMHO C++ APIs SWIGgged directly to python are >> > rather big and inelegant and such a wrapper makes writing scripts much >> > easier! >> > >> > Are you intending to continue working on your wrapper? I vote for >> > including it in future Kicad releases along with some examples. Miguel, >> > Wayne - would you agree? >> >> I think it's a good idea for developers who don't want to wade into all >> of the swigged objects. If Piers (or someone else) intends to maintain >> it then we can add it as part of the python scripting installation. If >> not, then we can add it to the pcbnew/scripting/examples folder for user >> convenience. >> >> If I do add it the formatting issues will have to be addressed. Tabs >> are forbidden in all KiCad source code so you have to convert them to 4 >> spaces. The trailing white space will also have to be cleaned up. >> Although not strictly enforce, it is preferred that line lengths be >> limited to 100 characters. I also see some formatting inconsistencies >> in functions with multiple arguments. Some times there is a space after >> the comma and sometimes there isn't so that should be addressed as well. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Wayne >> >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Tom >> > >> > >> > >> >> To make it easier to get my work done I made some convenience >> functions and >> >> classes wrapping the swig api to have a cleaner interface. >> >> >> >> Please have a look and see if it is useful to somehow incorporate it >> in the >> >> main branch. >> >> >> >> pcbnew_easy.py >> >> https://gist.github.com/pierstitus/7be2d9923da502c88ff1 >> >> >> >> There is a simple usage example, to run put the file on your path, (or >> add >> >> the path with sys.path.append("...path_to_file...")) >> >> open the pcbnew console and enter >> >>>>> import pcbnew_easy >> >>>>> pcbnew_easy.test() >> >> (the screen is only updating on moving) >> >> >> >> Piers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> >> Post to : [email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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