Re: gEDA-user: rant: pcb print from command line

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Clifton
d praise, knowing that others are using their work. Reward through satisfaction that the gEDA / PCB products are better as a result of their contributions Smugness at the thought we might have one-up'd a feature in a rival package... All sorts of reasons. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineeri

Re: gEDA-user: rant: pcb print from command line

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Clifton
tegorised with various tags, as well as the usual priority assignment and status tracking. Perhaps we can even form some teams interested to receive email updates, and get subscribed to bugs / patches in certain areas, with patches for review, or whatever. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electr

Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Clifton
t/software/dxftopcb/ > >> > >> I'd like to see pcb link to dxflib for import and export. > > > > > > ___ > > geda-user mailing list > > geda-user@moria.seul.org > > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Clifton
re is important as well as pad size, since the stencil opening probably ought never include areas which are solder-masked. It is possible (although I'm not sure how useful) to set a partially masked pad - perhaps as some kind of heat-sink for a transistor, with a defined mask opening. Regards, -

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist without X?

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
e devel libraries to install, but X its-self ought not to be a requirement. gnetlist runs file with DISPLAY unset. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the

Re: gEDA-user: rant: pcb print from command line

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
bad at following stuff in the sourceforge trackers, partly since I _HATE_ the sourceforge site with a fiery passion. I do try to keep an eye on new stuff which appears on the geda-bug mailing list though. (Which is where the geda bugmail goes). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division,

Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist without X?

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
lan libX11 is not X, and should not pull in a dependency on the whole X server. GTK / GDK should not either. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in t

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: functions in hidnogui.c

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Clifton
As regards the printing.. I think it would be nice if the exporter HIDs took an explicit command-line parameter to determine which side of the board to export. The PNG exporter already does this for photo-mode. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, Uni

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: functions in hidnogui.c

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Clifton
LAY() action I can select whether to print refdes, or value with the > components. > > Peter Clifton reminded me, that one obstacle to the application is the > necessity to remove a CRASH statement in hidnogui.c. It should be > checked, that the removal does not have any undesire

Re: gEDA-user: Fundung for server

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Clifton
. Think more like charities that want a few £ or $ per month, not lump sum donations. It wouldn't take many people willing to contribute £2 per month (say), to fund a server, but getting infrastructure set up to make this kind of donation would be a pain. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: pcb: functions in hidnogui.c

2010-03-16 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 04:50 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > Having looked at it, I think it is pretty safe just to remove the CRASH > > statements in the hidnogui HID. (Both invalidate_lr and invalidate_all). > > > > Alternatively,

gEDA-user: PCB+GL Branches: URGENT WARNING

2010-03-18 Thread Peter Clifton
gerbv.. the other was a pin which fails to clear its polygon on file-load, resulting in a short to ground-plane. I sincerely hope this has not bitten anyone else. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter update?

2010-03-18 Thread Peter Clifton
interested a few weeks ago.. Can you guys keep this on the geda-dev list in future.. it is always fun to see how things are progressing. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter update?

2010-03-18 Thread Peter Clifton
router-ish" of these names, I really like this one. > sigroute > vinerouter > liquidroute ^^^___ avoid out of courtesy to the LiquidPCB folks > streamroute > flowroute > lamroute (laminar algorithm mapping router) &g

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL Branches: URGENT WARNING

2010-03-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 15:09 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > Dear all, > > It has come to my attention that my PCB+GL branches (starting from > "polygon_speedup" onwards, contain a flaw which can in some > circumstances result in subtly corrupted polygons - which can

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL Branches: URGENT WARNING

2010-03-18 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 01:39 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > >> It has come to my attention that my PCB+GL branches (starting from > >> "polygon_speedup" onwards, contain a flaw which can in some > >> circumstances result in su

Re: gEDA-user: GSoC -- Not accepted :-(

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Clifton
aps you could teach them the virtues of using Open Source software to make their replicating robots.. gEDA (or KiCAD) over Eagle any day! Reliance on commercial / cripple-ware tools where a open alternative is available is a big fail for such an otherwise great project. Regards, -- P

Re: gEDA-user: Need boards for toporouter tests

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Clifton
ts (privately is OK, if you don't want them > > public)? > Is the "toporouter" the default router in pcb? No, you have to invoke it through an action. I think it is something like "toporouter()" (press ":" first to bring up the action input box). -- Pet

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter: Line constraints

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Clifton
uld be easier to find from under the "Development" page at gpleda.org. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223

gEDA-user: OT: SEMS screws

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Clifton
ed!) Thanks for the help - and sorry for the off-topic. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Sha

Re: gEDA-user: OT: SEMS screws

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 00:50 +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > Something like this: > > > > http://tr.cycleapp.com/pages/JIS+Plain+Spring+Washer+SEMS+Phillips+Pan > > +Head > > In Europe you may ask for "ISO 10644" or

Re: gEDA-user: Funny pad rotation

2010-03-25 Thread Peter Clifton
he HID->fill_polygon) call, does not appear to close the shape if it were called to draw a non-filled "polygon". -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, C

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
Can you detail some exact steps to reproduce the issue, or is it more random? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No sign

Re: gEDA-user: SFlags definition question

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
a and various layers. The numbers are layer numbers (I think), and the "S" is a solid thermal style. The relevant code is in src/strflags.c, although I'll warn you.. I felt compelled to gouge out my eyes after trying to read it. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Div

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
r as your active layer (required for the next step), then de-select all the copper layers and run the DRC. Clicking on a violation will re-enable affected layers, so the objects in question are _much_ easier to identify. De-select all layers before moving onto the next violation. Regards, -- Pet

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Clifton
ith Ubuntu Lucid. It is odd that you have gEDA 1.6.1 from an Ubuntu Karmic install. (It would be present in Lucid though). I would have wondered if you'd got it from my PPA, but I recall only 1.6.0 being available there. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Clifton
y visible - are cleared away by vias / tracks - but the DRC check is "imagining" what the polygon is defined to look like when checking it against other polygons. I'm not 100% sure on that. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cam

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Clifton
is possible there is a bug in the DRC relating to layer groups.. if you can identify something with a minimal test case (showing how it fails with multi-layers in a layer group, but passes DRC on a single layer), please file it on Sourceforge so it doesn't get forgotten. -- Peter Clifton Electr

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Clifton
r they call it) between the OpenVZ container and the host OS. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +4

Re: gEDA-user: pcb DRC

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Clifton
o the manufacturers provide feedback to > theier customers? I believe there are some fab's who run a DRC check with a web interface as you upload the design files. I doubt this will be available until you've committed to fabrication though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineerin

Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 07:16 -0400, Jim wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 21:11 -0400, Jim wrote: > > > >> I have no idea what might be interfering with the operation. It's > >> probably important to note that this is an OpenVZ contai

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf release branch in git? mac build?

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Clifton
em and there are two bugs reporting > > it out of date, but the macports team has not patched them > I'm already following the pcb development head in git. > > Thanks, > dave -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambrid

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf release branch in git? mac build?

2010-03-31 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 11:06 -0500, John Griessen wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:41 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote: > > > >> I want to follow the git -- but for now on the release branch (if there is > >> one??) not the dev head. > > >

Re: gEDA-user: Two Questions

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Clifton
estion in a two-parter ;) Add a third argument to give the name you want, e.g.: (component-library "/home/comp/sch_symbols/AutoGen/Panasonic/0603/1P" "Panasonic 0603 1P") -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thom

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Netlist?

2010-04-02 Thread Peter Clifton
7;s >lappy. I was not able to get X11 to work right with fink. Mac ports >seem to support more applications and is more familiar to me since I >use FreeBSD. gschem and PCB will run just fine on FreeBSD too, if it helps. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division,

Re: gEDA-user: No Diode in PCB?

2010-04-02 Thread Peter Clifton
the schematics, all should be well - but make sure you double check by showing the invisible text - or opening the symbol (Hierarchy menu -> Down symbol) and checking the "pinnumber" attributes on the pins as compared to the footprint you intend to use in PCB. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engi

Re: gEDA-user: Are multiple pinlabels on a symbol pin OK?

2010-04-02 Thread Peter Clifton
d be able to guarantee the text lining up correctly. As it stands, you're having to guess where to start the second set of label text based upon how particular font gschem picks up renders on your machine. It will probably stay "about" right, but not all fonts on all machines will be

Re: gEDA-user: How do I change initial window size on gschem and pcb?

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Clifton
712) ; Good size for 1152x864 Looking at the code, I'm not sure that will actually do anything.. let me know if it works. We now have a file which remembers location and size of various windows, but not the main window - the window manager is in charge of that kind of thing. Regards, --

gEDA-user: Filled / unfilled paths [WAS: Re: hydraulic symbols and schematics]

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Clifton
an edit the exact node / control point positions within gschem the same way as for any line. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) T

Re: gEDA-user: Mailing List

2010-04-08 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 04:04 -0700, Tony Simpson wrote: > Dear sirs >Please remove me from your mailing list You need to follow the link at the bottom of each mailing list you receive, you should be able to unsubscribe from there. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Di

Re: gEDA-user: problems linking the GL-enabled version of pcb

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:50 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Hi. > After I reinstalled the drivers of my nvidia graphcs card, the GL enabled > pcb version of Peter Clifton fails at link time. Error message is: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL > collect2: ld returned 1 exi

gEDA-user: PCB+GL crashes (workaround)

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Clifton
uot;UNKNOWN()" macro was supposed to catch those. Possibly I'm calling NAMEONPCB_NAME() on an object where the cast of (ElementTypePtr) is incorrect on ptr1. I'm not entirely sure - just guessing. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Depart

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Add line end to line type dialog

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
ventually have with GTK 3.0). FWIW, a brief scan suggests there is a lot more deprecated / poor coding style in the code which you've copied. Regards, Peter Clifton ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Ubuntu 10.4 Beta2

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
gnetism off" modifier when drawing nets. Try turning "magnetic net mode" off from the options menu ("om"). You can then use Ctrl to draw angled nets again. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Av

Re: gEDA-user: Refreshing symbol libraries ?

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
7;t think we depend on a high enough version of _GLib_ to use GIO file monitoring. There is also the fact that the library backends aren't necessarily file based, so this can only apply to the file backed one - we might need to keep the refresh button for others. The idea is sound though..

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 2/2] libgeda: remove TYPE_ERASE from OBJECT_TYPE enum

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 01:30 +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: > TYPE_ERASE was not documented in file format spec and not used in the code. Yes.. a throw-back from the older rendering code I think! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/2] gschem: line type edit dialog now uses GtkComboBox

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
that passing (say) -1, to the type column would be how I'd do it. Your solution is cleaner ;) Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the la

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/2] gschem: line type edit dialog now uses GtkComboBox

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
picky - this kind of NOP change should really be a separate patch so the more substantial changes can be reviewed easier. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No sig

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/2] gschem: line type edit dialog now uses GtkComboBox

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Clifton
ld be functionally equivalent to use g_signal_connect, although various casts might be different. g_signal_connect takes a GObject, but is of type (gpointer), so no cast is required. You may need a cast to G_CALLBACK for the signal handler function though. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engi

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA programming

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Clifton
x27;re coding with. "devhelp" provides a nice view of these for GTK, GLib and various others. The documentation for the routines lists whether they are deprecated or not. As for books.. I've no idea, I (think) I learned by reading existing code examples and playing around! -- Peter C

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA programming

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Clifton
etc.. allows you to be much more expressive, and focus your time where it matters. I say using higher level APIs in C is a decent compromise. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)77

Re: gEDA-user: xgsch2pcb acts different from gsch2pcb

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Clifton
board as well, or are you starting from a blank one? Try hitting "O" after opening the board you run gsch2pcb manually on.. does it have any messages then? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridg

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Add line end to line type dialog

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Clifton
e, which could otherwise be achieved by adjusting the position of a line with the END_SQUARE type. > -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)

Re: gEDA-user: xgsch2pcb acts different from gsch2pcb

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 09:19 -0400, Jim wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 06:04 -0400, Jim wrote: > > > >> If I take my project.rc file and copy it to project.gsch2pcb and > >> change > >> the output-name to something else so I

Re: gEDA-user: Patch to PCB build system needs testing/feedback

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Clifton
out it though.. it makes the normal compile output nicer, but it doesn't honour the "-s" option passed to make.. so I loose my usual easy way of checking for errors without getting lost in output (make -s) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, Uni

Re: gEDA-user: Connecting to vias

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Clifton
ink you need to select the thermal tool ("THRM"), make sure you're editing on the layer you want to join the via / pin / pad to, and click on the via. Shift + Click cycles through various different thermal styles. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Depar

Re: gEDA-user: Connecting to vias

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 22:42 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:59 -0400, George M. Gallant wrote: > > > >the fab house requirements so getting this message is annoying. > >Thanks for the tip on making sure to be centered on the part when > &g

Re: gEDA-user: Matching footprints with symbols

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Clifton
ase_ letter at the end which is ignored. It was a (mis)feature designed to support "IC1a" "IC1b" as the same part, "IC1" in the netlist. I don't "think" upper case letters at the end of a refdes (without a number) cause a problem. -- Peter Clifton El

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Add line end to line type dialog

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Clifton
. In the light of this, a "small bend" corner style would be cool ;-) Round-ended lines with the same end-coordinate make a neat join at any angle. Almost all (all?) PCB programs I know of use rounded end line primitives. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineerin

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Clifton
t$ grep MINGW_GUI_CFLAGS m4/* -R Fixing up the Makefiles to add $(MINGW_GUI_LDFLAGS) to the gschem_LDFLAGS variables should fix the issue. (And similar for gattrib). -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3

Re: gEDA-user: configure script patch

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Clifton
p every potential configure failure with a list of Debian, Fedora, ... package names to install? I think we need to try to be consistent, and adding suggestions for every possible point of failure could be a lot of work. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, Uni

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 21:23 +0900, timecop wrote: > thats not the window he's talking about. Yes it is. > how about actually running the windows build. I'm the one who built it! -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridg

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Clifton
me with various questions. Thanks for the testing! I've got a patch ready for testing (attached), and if you can confirm it works, I'll push it to git HEAD once Ales declares the servers are ready for use again. It is probably also a candidate for the 1.6.x stable series if we

Re: gEDA-user: suppress command line window in Win32 build

2010-05-01 Thread Peter Clifton
the new server should be ready for use now (all > repositories).Please report any issues, cause I probably messed > something up. :( Can you post the server's new SSH fingerprint? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Clifton
y 1.6.1, as it is just possible that the changes to fix the Win32 bug (which also, for robustness changed away from using a description string to set the font size), will fix the issue. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Clifton
uot;, net line "N", component line "C". E.g. this is fine: P 0 2600 300 2600 1 0 0 { T 100 2650 5 8 1 1 0 0 1 pinnumber=25 } This is not: B 300 0 2000 4600 3 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 { T 100 2650 5 8 1 1 0 0 1 pinnumber=25 } Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical En

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:35 -0700, phil wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > Take a look at the symbol file in a text editor. Attribute blocks, > > beginning { ...} should only follow a pin line "P", net line "N", > > component line "C". > >

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
xt requirement. /\ | | Works? or builds? When you say 1.24 works... do you mean it renders the text correctly? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:02 -0700, phil wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:35 -0700, phil wrote: > >> Peter Clifton wrote: > > What exact version of gattrib and gEDA are you using. Where did it come > > from (distro / build from source etc..)?

Re: gEDA-user: gattrib error message

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:03 -0700, phil wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > It could be that the problem stems from something wrong in one of the > > symbols your schematic references. > > You are right. My problem was with an attribute inside a footprint: > > pinlable

Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL crashes (workaround)

2010-05-10 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 09:29 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > As a workaround for now, apply this bandaid in > > src/hid/gtk/gui-output-events.c > > No crashes ever since :-) I fixed the underlying issue now.. so if you wanted to re-fetch

Re: gEDA-user: huge font problem under OS X again

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
y 1.5.x series version, but they come with other bugs. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:48 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On May 4, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > >>In the meantime I've narrowed down the Pango problem to a major > >> release. Under OS X 10.4, v1.24 works while v1.25 fails due to the

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:48 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On May 4, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > >>In the meantime I've narrowed down the Pango problem to a major > >> release. Under OS X 10.4, v1.24 works while v1.25 fails due to the

Re: gEDA-user: How do I mark the connection point on a pad?

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
lt settings without loosing any data). BBC iPlayer appears to use ~/.appdata to be awkward. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
as polygon display and translucency. ^ |__(Although I did steal various rasterisation code from cairo to process our polygons into GL primitives!) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue,

Re: gEDA-user: How do I mark the connection point on a pad?

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
r-user basis? (Works so long as any transferable final output can embed the symbols with the schematic file / project directory). Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)772

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
+ cairo which uses OS X native text rendering, but a simple work-around ought to be building the suite in a similar configuration to Linux - with non-native text rendering. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Av

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
I'm wondering if the bug is more likely to be in cairo or pango. As yet I'm undecided, but I'm leaning towards thinking cairo. Could you remind me which cairo version you're working with, and I'll check to make sure there haven't been any relevant bug fixes sin

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 00:35 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 17:49 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > > Peter, in reference to my DocBook problem: I believe I've got the > > DocBook stuff installed properly...will try again with the git head > > pango a

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 22:02 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On 5/11/10 7:40 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > And another possible test.. try the attached patch. Shouldn't fix > > anything, but let me know if it does. (Applies _without_ the above > > replacement, so you

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 00:03 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On 5/11/10 10:14 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > Are you on 32bit / 64bit? > >64 on the x86 Mac and the SPARC, 32 on the G5. > > > I'm fairly sure there must be a recipe to get this working - possibly it >

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Clifton
ion to what you'll need though - it does a native OS X build to produce a Framework version of cairo which has no X11 support. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7

Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

2010-05-14 Thread Peter Clifton
riggered by using the (working) pango library, and the locally built cairo library ?) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 7

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/7] PCB localization

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Clifton
y address should identify which is to blame. Ales - is it possible to configure mailman not to munch [PATCH...] emails? It has stripped some leading whitespace from the context, and appended a footer which is confusing patch. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH 1/7] PCB localization

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Clifton
t sends the email for you - so no extra work for the sender 3. I can save the patches without having to poke sourceforge 4. I can save the patches without having to poke sourceforge (If I agree to push some patches - send them privately to me). Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-05-27 Thread Peter Clifton
so I would be affected there). If you had an automated script for performing the conversions, it might mitigate that. I'm not against de-crufting some of PCB's types (I'm personally not a fan of the "foo" and "fooPtr" typedef idiom), but I'm less likel

Re: gEDA-user: PolyStitch plugin

2010-05-28 Thread Peter Clifton
upport, so let us know if you encounter any bugs.. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 -

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: error while loading shared libraries

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Clifton
lp. Then "ldd `which gschem` | grep geda" E.g. on my box: ldd `which gschem` | grep geda libgeda.so.38 => /home/pcjc2/geda/lib/libgeda.so.38 (0x00892000) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cam

Re: gEDA-user: Next problem, PCB looses rats

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Clifton
ructions to reproduce the problem, and someone will take a look to see what the problem might be. Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signa

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Clifton
t; > Pushed. First person who complains they have an old compiler, > volunteers to help us test a patch to support it :-) Thanks a bloody BUNCH. The filter script in the commit message is all well and good for pure git users, but it will corrupt stgit branches. Why are we committing bulk N

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 12:30 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Why are we committing bulk NOP changes like this for anyway? Because > they exist? Also - it would appear the changes unintentionally changed some quoted strings (caught when attempting to rebase my branches). I'm prepared to

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 12:30 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 23:38 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Pushed. First person who complains they have an old compiler, > > volunteers to help us test a patch to support it :-) > > Thanks a bloody BUNCH. The filter

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 16:22 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > Btw.. for those using my branches, you might like to re-fetch now. > > Thanks! > I put an update on my todo list for the weekend. > > BTW, your before pours branch works much b

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Clifton
oss with myself for not having been more so with Robert. Hopefully there will be more changes to come.. but if they are major - perhaps a note on geda-dev or geda-user prior to putting in the hours would be worthwhile. Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Departm

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Clifton
le to think my modified "cairo-bentley-ottmann.c" was unmodified from their original. > Greetings from sunny Hannover, Sunny here too ;) (although evening now). Regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomso

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Clifton
g changes publicly). The people to contact would be: Dan McMahill (PCB maintainer) DJ Delorie Ben Jackson Harry Eaton (not particularly active at the moment?) Myself (There are of course other developers, but perhaps not so active recently). Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering D

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Patches: Use c99 bool instead of manual typedef.

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Clifton
olean -> bool changes. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328

gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Clifton
so introduced a GUI tool for creating holes in polygons. Standard editing tools such as insert / move / remove point work on the holes too. (If you don't use the new feature, you can re-edit the file header's date to "fix" the layout file for reading with older versi

Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 00:38 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > As subject.. > > This is a file format bump, but remains backward compatible with old > layouts. I've now rebased my usual branches on top of this (mainly required work for the "pour" object branches), however

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