Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes (was: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager)

2011-01-05 Thread Matthew Wilkins
>How would the dialog establish the order? Would the order be significant >to some action? If so, there should be a way to manipulate order from >the GUI. > As far as I can see, the only way for a program to distinguish between two attributes with the same name, attached to the same symbol i

Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes (was: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager)

2011-01-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Matthew Wilkins wrote: > Hm, Peter C is right that this complicates things a lot. Well, you asked for potential use cases. Not all conceivable uses may warrant the effort to code. In addition, there may be better ways to achieve the same goal. Symbols in gschem are a bit overloaded. The data bas

Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes (was: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager)

2011-01-04 Thread Matthew Wilkins
>> What are typical use cases for having multiple same-named attributes in a >> symbol? >Same-named attributes in my symbols: >* slotdef -- this is pretty generic >* comment -- sometimes, more than one note needs to be delivered >* documentation -- sometimes, more than one datasheet is availab

Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes (was: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager)

2011-01-04 Thread John Doty
On Jan 4, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011 00:42:07 John Doty wrote: >> On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Matthew Wilkins wrote: >>> What are typical use cases for having multiple same-named attributes in a >>> symbol? >> >> A slotted symbol generally needs multip

Re: gEDA-user: multiple attributes (was: [Patches] GTK Recent-file-manager)

2011-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 00:42:07 John Doty wrote: > On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Matthew Wilkins wrote: > > What are typical use cases for having multiple same-named attributes in a > > symbol? > > A slotted symbol generally needs multiple slotdef attributes. > > A hierarchical symbol will ha