Re: gEDA-user: gschem crash on object drag

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Brett
he bug is fixed in the latest unstable 1.7.x releases, but we do not provide Ubuntu packages for these. Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: gschem gnetlist problem

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Brett
poses). Yes, both are pretty straightforward to add (I think), but I don't have time right now. File feature requests? :-) Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: command autocomplete (gtk)

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Brett
e. I think you should remove it, personally. Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Unicode and Guile [was: couple of questions on attributes.]

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Brett
[ This is a really dull e-mail. You can probably safely skip it. ] John Doty writes: > On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Peter Brett wrote: > >> 1) We need to support gnetlist backends when gEDA is compiled against >> Guile 1.8.x, which doesn't understand UTF-8. BTW, if y

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA file format - couple of questions on attributes.

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Brett
Regards, Peter P.S. To clarify, attributes *must* match '^(.*[^ ])=([^ ].*)$' (multiline) at the moment. -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Scheme API branch merged

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Brett
t of these changes: * Peter Clifton * Ludovic Courtès * John Doty * Gareth Edwards * John Griessen * Neil Jerram * Josh Jordan * Dan McMahill * Maciej Pijanka * Ivan Stankovic * Matthew Wampler-Doty * Andy Wingo -- Peter Brett Remo

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA file format - couple of questions on attributes.

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Brett
they can be multiline (any UTF-8 character other than \0). Also, they (randomly) may not start with a space. Since the gEDA file format requires UTF-8, please make sure your parser raises the alarm if it encounters encoding errors. Cheers, Peter P.S. I'm hoping to t

Re: gEDA-user: gschem saving symbols

2011-06-20 Thread Peter Brett
xt processing. That's why the branch exists. There's a bug in the script, by the way: it also needs to un-translate the resulting symbol to the page origin. I'll fix it at some point. Peter -- Peter Brett Remote S

Re: gEDA-user: help request: gnetlist not reading scm files

2011-06-16 Thread Peter Brett
n `gnetlist --list-backends' for a full list of available backends. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Fixing the attribute censorship bug

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Brett
John Doty writes: > On Jun 1, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Peter Brett wrote: > >> John Doty writes: >> >>> On May 31, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Peter Brett wrote: >> >>>> This script deliberately poisons the netlist. >>> >>> Exactly. This is

Re: gEDA-user: Fixing the attribute censorship bug

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Brett
John Doty writes: >On May 31, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Peter Brett wrote: >> This script deliberately poisons the netlist. > > Exactly. This is consistent with other gnetlist behavior. If no > attribute is found, the resulting value is "unknown". So, I think Yes, and

Re: gEDA-user: Fixing the attribute censorship bug

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Brett
etlist args) For the benefit of those who share your preference for this behaviour: does loading this scm file from a configuration file work? :-) Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre _

Re: gEDA-user: cvs.gedasymbols.org and gschem

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Brett
etical order, it's rarely what you actually want. Having it implemented in C as a core part of libgeda functionality seems to me to send the incorrect message that using it is a good idea. I've been thinking of nuking g_rc_component_library_search() and reimplementing it as a Scheme exten

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Brett
. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Brett
> 1. Would any of the existing maintainers be able to devote more time > to gEDA if they had financial support to do so ? In my case: yes. :-/ Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user m

Re: gEDA-user: current working file name in gschemrc

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Brett
er program that accepts Postscript on stdin and a destination filename as its argument. Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre - Original message - > Now, I got stuck with the next step: Copy the pdf produced by cups-pdf in > $HO

Re: gEDA-user: current working file name in gschemrc

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Brett
mat' function quite well. :-) http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Writing.html#index-simple_002dformat-2052 Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Fix so symbol directories cannot be loaded twice

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Brett
, but it might solve your problem. ;-) Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre - Original message - > Dear Peter, > > Commands of the form "(component-library )" I had placed in a gafrc > were getting called multiple times, so

Re: gEDA-user: ANNOUNCE: New gEDA Scheme extension API

2010-11-06 Thread Peter Brett
the next couple of days, too. :-)                         Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-02 Thread Peter Brett
re using , as the decimal separator instead of . caused huge fonts IIRC. Can't remember if that was pre-1.6.0 though. In any case, you should really be using 1.6.1! :P Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre __

Re: gEDA-user: Dashed Line Disappearing Detail and 1.6.1

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Brett
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lltdl > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Install libtool-ltdl-devel. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.se

Re: gEDA-user: Beginner Confusion

2009-12-26 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message - >      http://www.gpleda.org/sources.html > claims that the development version is 1.5.4 > and that the stable version is 1.6.0 > Shouldn't the development version be a 1.7.x type of number based on a > stable 1.6? There hasn't yet been a release in the 1.7.x series s

Re: gEDA-user: xgsch2pcb does not play nice with hierarchical design

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message - > My current project contains a moderate hierarchy. It is basically a main > schematic sheet with two sub-sheets. By default, only the main schematic > appears in xgsch2pcb. To edit the sub-sheets, I have to fall back to the > "Down Schematic" action in gschem. This ki

Re: gEDA-user: gschem 1.5.2.20090328

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message - > I've hit this problem a couple of times now.  Any plain text on the > schematic is messing up the backend processing.  The most recent problem > occurred when I made a very minor change, rotated a connector on the > schematic.  Gnetlist -g PCB reports "read garbage"

Re: gEDA-user: Generate PS with gschem-lightbg, display editor in gschem-darkbg

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Brett
- Original message - > > is there a possibility to have generated PS files in the lightbg scheme > and yet still edit the gschem files with the darkdb scheme? I fiddled > with the options in gschemrc -- all I achieved was to change the > background color of the generated PS file to white w

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Brett
tinely convert to eps and then import into > LaTeX, for example. One big advantage of ODF export would be the ability to embed schematics losslessly into ODF presentations. Peter ;-) -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre __

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Brett
ges. Alternatively, you could try building your own GTK+ packages, if you're feeling keen. Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.

Re: gEDA-user: PANGO FONTS MERGED: Call for testing

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Brett
nfortunately, full Unicode *printing* isn't supported yet (though save/load/display are), so I'm afraid you might need to hold off for a bit. > What about different typefaces? can I somehow select a font? Not yet, sorry. Peter -- Peter Brett Rem

Re: gEDA-user: Gschem/Custom Symbol/Path

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Brett
>> ${prefix}/share/gEDA/gafrc.d/ > > What would ${prefix} be on a debian system? > This should tell you. ;-) which gschem | sed -e 's:/bin.*::' Peter -- Peter Brett Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre ___

Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Brett
it: > > You have praised this many times before. Ironically, one of the > weaknesses of gEDA is a lack of scriptability. Even pcb with all its > actions is only half way there. All I can say is, "Watch this space." ;) Peter --

Re: gEDA-user: a note from a novice user

2006-07-26 Thread Peter Brett
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:42, Igor2 wrote: > Another interesting approach would be to provide a live cd. There are many > live linux distros out there, so it would be possible to add gEDA to one > of them. This way the 'lazy' user could try out the system without needing > to understand parts o

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA download page

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Brett
On Monday 12 June 2006 18:27, Stuart Brorson wrote: > Ummm, if you go to the bottom of the download page, you can find a > link to a page with all sources available. > > Ales decided to revamp the download page to the format you see now > since newbies were complete flummoxed by the old page, which

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA download page

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Brett
On Monday 12 June 2006 18:17, Peter Brett wrote: > I was disturbed to visit the gEDA download page today and see the only > download option as an install CD image, with the text underneath: > > "Note: The installer only works on GNU/Linux i386." This text is lies anyway,

gEDA-user: gEDA download page

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Brett
Hi folks, I was disturbed to visit the gEDA download page today and see the only download option as an install CD image, with the text underneath: "Note: The installer only works on GNU/Linux i386." _I_ know that the CD image contains the source code, but others may not. Can I please suggest

Re: gEDA-user: D-BUS and gEDA?

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Brett
On Monday 12 June 2006 17:23, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Jun 12, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Peter Brett wrote: > >>"Portable" meaning "runs on different Linux 'distros'", or portable > >> to other OSs and architectures? If it's truly por

Re: gEDA-user: D-BUS and gEDA?

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Brett
On Monday 12 June 2006 16:42, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Jun 12, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Peter Brett wrote: > > D-BUS is becoming a fairly standard thing on the Linux desktop these > > days: the > > HAL supports it, KDE4 and the next version of GNOME are both going to > > us

gEDA-user: D-BUS and gEDA?

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Brett
Hi folks, Just an idea I had off the top of my head while I was mulling over the problem of integrating pcb and gschem together: why not make them both expose D-BUS interfaces? D-BUS is becoming a fairly standard thing on the Linux desktop these days: the HAL supports it, KDE4 and the next ver