> On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegma...@sw-systems.de>
> wrote:
>
> These are the default paths which I have added or adapted from previous code
> some while back:
> // User scripting folder (~/Library/Application
> Support/kicad/scripting/plugins)
> pypath = GetOSXKicadUserDataDir() + wxT( "/scripting/plugins" );
> // Machine scripting folder (/Library/Application
> Support/kicad/scripting/plugins)
> pypath += wxT( ":" ) + GetOSXKicadMachineDataDir() + wxT(
> "/scripting/plugins" );
> // Bundle scripting folder
> (<kicad.app>/Contents/SharedSupport/scripting/plugins)
> pypath += wxT( ":" ) + GetOSXKicadDataDir() + wxT( "/scripting/plugins" );
> // Bundle wxPython folder
> (<kicad.app>/Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages)
> pypath += wxT( ":" ) + Pgm().GetExecutablePath() +
> wxT( "Contents/Frameworks/python/site-packages" );
> // Original content of $PYTHONPATH
> if( wxGetenv("PYTHONPATH") != NULL )
> {
> pypath = wxString( wxGetenv("PYTHONPATH") ) + wxT( ":" ) + pypath;
> }
Ah, OK, in my ~/Library/Application Support/kicad directory I have a
subdirectory called plugins, which has the BOM XSL stuff. I thought that would
a reasonable place for plugins to go, so I put the Python scripts there. That
didn't work.
But Berhnard's suggestions were good. I put them in ~/Library/Application
Support/kicad/scripting/plugins and it worked. I even saw pcbnew compiling the
.py scripts into .pyc files as it opened. I opened the footprint editor and did
the "new footprint from wizard" and a list of scripts popped up.
I copied the plugin scripts from
/Applications/kicad/Kicad/Contents/SharedSupport/scripting/plugins, which is
where they ended up after building and doing the make install and then copying
the bundle to /Applications/kicad/. According to the code above, pcbnew should
have found the scripts, but it didn't (or couldn't compile them for some
reason?).
And from a user point of view, this is confusing, having a plugins directory
and a scripting/plugins directory.
> I must confess though, that I never did really test it because
> * the latest build with Python enabled had issues with hotkeys in the editor
> (all hotkeys got eaten and didn’t appear in the Python console)
I saw that -- I tried to type in the Python console and it was completely hosed
-- 'h' brought up a schematic, for some reason.
Gotta file a bug report, if one hasn't already been filed.
> * I didn’t have any idea on how to use scripting…
My immediate interest was the footprint wizard. I also have this idea of
running a script which would renumber the reference designators in a
geographical fashion (so assembly/test techs don't hate the layout) and
backannotate that to the schematic. But I might wait until scripting comes to
eeschema.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
>
>> On 03 Mar 2015, at 20:52, Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On linux it is in $HOME/.kicad_plugins/
>>
>> 2015-03-03 20:26 GMT+01:00 Andy Peters <de...@latke.net>:
>>> Subject says it all ...
>>>
>>> I enabled Python scripting in my OS X builds and wanted to try the
>>> footprint plug-in, but I don't know where pcbnew looks for the scripts, and
>>> it thinks none are available.
>>>
>>> I'm on BZR 5469.
>>>
>>> Say thankya.
>>>
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