On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/2/2016 9:25 PM, Ian Roth wrote: > > I am working on an I/O plugin for eeschema and I would like to save > > wires in order of netlist, for example: > > > > netlist1 > > -wire1 > > -wire2 > > netlist2 > > -wire3 > > -wire4 > > What is your reasoning for doing this? I could be wrong but I don't > think this would be a good idea for users who use a VCS to track their > designs. When the netlist gets rebuilt, there is no guarantee that the > wires assigned to a net will not get reordered by netlist generator. > This would create a large delta when saving the schematic. To make this > VCS friendly, you would have to ensure consistent net naming when > generating the netlist which could be pretty complicated. > The reason is that I need a way of quickly drawing schematics for RF systems and exporting them as javascript for rendering in a web browser. I would not mind exporting the netlist at the same time as the schematic. > > > > > It looks like the schematic I/O manager passes the screen, but not the > > SCH_EDIT_FRAME that contains the netlist functions to the plugin save > > function. Is it possible to get the netlist in the plugin in order to > > sort the wires? > > This will not happen. Adding any wxWindow knowledge to the schematic > I/O plugin is a poor design practice. At some point (hopefully soon), I > will start working on a coherent SCHEMATIC object which will act as a > container for the entire schematic. This will be the object that allows > you to generate the netlist, not SCH_EDIT_FRAME. > Your solution sounds like it would work for my needs. Do you have an estimate on when the coherent schematic object will be in the kicad source? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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