Ok, that is good news. Would you share the files licensed under GPLv3? I think I can handle the rest of potential problems.
Regards,
Orson
On 11/23/2017 04:03 PM, Michael Geselbracht wrote:
> Hi,
> these files were written by me. The comment blocks at the top are generated
> by Eclipse ("let" is my login name).
> I am afraid that the coding style is about the opposite of the rules for
> Kicad. But if you can use the code feel free to do so.
>
> The current implementation has some issues:
> 1. The "%g" format in sprintf() does some rounding which is probably
> undesired (15.12356 -> 15.1236).
> 2. The decimal separator is set to '.' the input language settings by the
> user are not taken into account.
> 3. I did not check for memory leaks or buffer overflows.
>
> - Michael
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.sumin...@cern.ch>
> wrote:
>
>> We still do not have the feature freeze, so there is still a chance to
>> shove it to the master branch. I feel a bit uneasy about exprtk (over 1
>> MB header file), but Michael's parser approach seems like a good
>> solution to me. We can extend it later as the lemon format is not very
>> complex.
>>
>> I took Michael's parser, but modified the way the expression evaluation
>> is done in dialog windows. Instead of adding the evaluator and focus
>> event handlers to each dialog, I wrote a wrapper around wxTextCtrl that
>> handles the process. I also converted most of pcbnew text input controls
>> to use the wrapper, so with the patch merged one should be able to
>> evaluate math in almost every text control that expects a numeric value.
>> If you are interested, the patches are in my branch [1].
>>
>> My only concern is about two files (libeval/numeric.[h,cpp], [2]) that
>> have an author, but no license. Michael, where did you get these files?
>> We should contact the author to get permission to use the code.
>> Otherwise we will need to replace these files.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Orson
>>
>> 1. https://code.launchpad.net/~orsonmmz/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/expr_eval
>> 2.
>> https://git.launchpad.net/~orsonmmz/kicad/tree/common/
>> libeval/numeric_evaluator.cpp?h=expr_eval
>>
>> On 09/02/2017 05:49 PM, Michael Geselbracht wrote:
>>> Creating a variable looks a bit complicated to me. And if I see it
>>> correctly it is not possible with exprtk to use constants with units
>>> (0.16").
>>> Maybe it would be possible to provide functions that do the math like
>>> fromInch(0.16).
>>>
>>> That is the beauty of a parser generator. You can define the desired
>> syntax
>>> yourself.
>>>
>>> I have added support for variables to my parser approach. Now I can write
>>> things like this:
>>>
>>> [Scratch Pad, global unit set to inch]
>>> e=0.4mm; L=0.8mm; E=2.5mm
>>>
>>> PosX: -3.5*e
>>> PosY: E/2-L/2+0.1mm
>>>
>>> I have attached a patch of my implementation. It adds the evaluator
>> (object
>>> size ~120kB) and includes it to the pad- and footprint dialogs.
>>> The pad dialog contains a (misaligned and too small) scratch pad.
>>>
>>> The code is a mess and wouldn't make it into Kicad. But it works for me
>> and
>>> maybe you'll end up with your own parser solution.
>>> The interface is not too different from exprtk so you wouldn't have to
>>> throw away your work. If you want to play with the grammar
>>> file you'll need the lemon parser generator ($ lemon grammar.lemon).
>>>
>>> - Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:23 AM, Russell Oliver <roliver8...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Scratch Pad:
>>>> I think this will be easily doable as an additional text box in the
>>>> dialog, which is then added to the beginning of the expression for each
>>>> text box. The format for the math library is as follows
>>>>
>>>> (a) Initialise x to zero
>>>> var x;
>>>>
>>>> (b) Initialise y to three
>>>> var y := 3;
>>>>
>>>> (c) Initialise z to the expression
>>>> var z := if (max(1,x + y) > 2,w,v);
>>>>
>>>> Global variable support:
>>>> I think this is possible but a simpler path might be to use a global
>>>> scratch pad, which would be added first to the beginning of the
>> expression
>>>> used for the text box.
>>>>
>>>> Currently the expression text ie something like "posx + 1" isn't saved
>>>> within the dialog or for the component.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Russell
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 7:46 AM Michael Geselbracht <
>>>> mgeselbrac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tested the patch and I really like this feature. This automatic
>>>>> variable assignment will sure come in handy.
>>>>> How about adding a kind of scratch pad (a single line should do) to the
>>>>> footprint editor so that one can add variables (measurements) given in
>>>>> datasheets?
>>>>> Like "c1=2.9; e=0.635" in the scratch pad and then in PosX field:
>> "-c1/2
>>>>> " and PosY: "-1.5*e" in order to place the first pad.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Michael
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski <
>>>>> tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 31.08.2017 15:27, Russell Oliver wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi All.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As a follow up to my earlier post, attached is a patch that implement
>>>>>>> math expressions in the pad editor as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A nifty feature is that the fields can be referenced from each other.
>>>>>>> currently the fields are referenced by the following names.
>>>>>>> - posx, posy, sizex, sizey, offsetx, offsetx, drillx, drillx.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Russell,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Didn't have the time to check your patch yet, but I came up with an
>>>>>> idea: add global variable support to the math parser, so that if you
>>>>>> place a text anywhere in the design assigning to a variable (e.g.
>>>>>> var=10), it will be updated in any of the expressions that reference
>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>
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