Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 02/02/2011 00:15, Marco Mattila a écrit : Now there should be a little something for everyone in the latest revision. It was possible to make the plot dialog a little smaller by getting rid of the radio buttons and moving the output directory field (although I'm not sure it's in the right plac

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 01/02/2011 22:40, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : While trekking though the Kicad source to removed the old zooming code, I discovered another issue that is going to drive me insane (it's a short drive) until it gets fixed. Currently, there are two cursor positions stored in Kicad. One is the oper

Re: [Kicad-developers] Convert hand-coded dialogs to wxFormBuilder

2011-02-01 Thread Phinitnan Chanasabaeng
Dick, Can you explain "The resizing capability" a little bit, what to resize? Tony ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More he

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCAD file formats

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Hesse
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > The decision was made not to use XML due to human readability issues.  A > project is currently in progress to use an S-expression based design for > this reason.   S-expressions look a bit like the LISP programming > language.  Search the m

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/01/2011 08:30 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 02/01/2011 04:53 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 2/1/2011 5:02 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: Does anyone know of any reason this can't be done. If it works properly, it should greatly simplify the drawing code. If no one objects, I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/01/2011 04:53 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 2/1/2011 5:02 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>> Does anyone know of any reason this can't be done. If it works properly, it >>> should greatly simplify the drawing code. If no one objects, I would like >>> to >>> tackle this before resuming my EES

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCAD file formats

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 2/1/2011 6:41 PM, Nils Hesse wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to ask if there's a particular reason why KiCAD uses its own > file formats. Why KiCAD doesn't simply use for example XML? Nils, The decision was made not to use XML due to human readability issues. A project is currently in progress to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 2/1/2011 5:58 PM, Mike Goodfellow wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 17:53 -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 2/1/2011 5:02 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> > >> >> Does anyone know of any reason this can't be done. If it works properly, >> >> it >> >> should greatly simplify the drawing code. If

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 2/1/2011 6:15 PM, Marco Mattila wrote: > Now there should be a little something for everyone in the latest > revision. It was possible to make the plot dialog a little smaller by > getting rid of the radio buttons and moving the output directory field > (although I'm not sure it's in the right p

[Kicad-developers] KiCAD file formats

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Hesse
Hi, I wanted to ask if there's a particular reason why KiCAD uses its own file formats. Why KiCAD doesn't simply use for example XML? Also I wanted to ask if there's any plan to add support for using white spaces in the name of schematic symbols or footprints. I think the problem of not supporti

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Mattila
Now there should be a little something for everyone in the latest revision. It was possible to make the plot dialog a little smaller by getting rid of the radio buttons and moving the output directory field (although I'm not sure it's in the right place now...). I also agree that the dialog is a bi

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread Mike Goodfellow
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 17:53 -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 2/1/2011 5:02 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know of any reason this can't be done. If it works properly, > >> it > >> should greatly simplify the drawing code. If no one objects, I would like > >> to > >> tackle

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 2/1/2011 5:02 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> Does anyone know of any reason this can't be done. If it works properly, it >> should greatly simplify the drawing code. If no one objects, I would like to >> tackle this before resuming my EESchema refactoring work. > > I don't know enough about

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
> Simon> Thank you for taking the time to read it in the first place. I > suspect that we are not too different in our thinking it's probably that > email isn't an easy medium convey ideas in either direction.Sorry if we > are going over old ground. Simon, If you intend to write a server and

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
> Does anyone know of any reason this can't be done. If it works properly, it > should greatly simplify the drawing code. If no one objects, I would like to > tackle this before resuming my EESchema refactoring work. I don't know enough about it to object. On a related note, I have been thinki

[Kicad-developers] Cursor position improvements.

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
While trekking though the Kicad source to removed the old zooming code, I discovered another issue that is going to drive me insane (it's a short drive) until it gets fixed. Currently, there are two cursor positions stored in Kicad. One is the operating system cursor position and the other is the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Simon Rogers
Hi - please see below On 01/02/2011 19:40, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On 02/01/2011 01:14 PM, Mike Goodfellow wrote: Dick, Wayne& Jean-Pierre, A week ago Simon Rogers posted on the developers mailing list regarding some ideas with the Kicad library. A "we" was mentioned in the post, well, the "we

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
Marco, Now please realize that you have to make EVERYONE happy, even if they disagree among themselves. :) And no good deed goes unpunished. And the pay is low. And coder decides. Because the pay is low. Dick ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/01/2011 01:40 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 02/01/2011 01:14 PM, Mike Goodfellow wrote: >> Dick, Wayne & Jean-Pierre, >> >> A week ago Simon Rogers posted on the developers mailing list regarding >> some ideas with the Kicad library. A "we" was mentioned in the post, well, >> the "we" is ma

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/01/2011 02:03 PM, Simon Rogers wrote: > My initial response is that it would require all library providers to > run a bzr server which would be a bit more heavyweight than a dedicated > lib server. This may or may not be a problem. > Probably the easiest path to a high end part server is

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Simon Rogers
No - that's good question. We are still feeling our way around the source as well. My initial response is that it would require all library providers to run a bzr server which would be a bit more heavyweight than a dedicated lib server. This may or may not be a problem. Regards, Simon On 01

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread Jerry Jacobs
On 2/1/11 7:43 PM, jean-pierre charras wrote: Le 01/02/2011 19:20, Jerry Jacobs a écrit : Hello Marco, I like it but it has still some issues with wxWidgets on Mac with version 2.9.2 from svn (rev 66766). I committed a fix, with a minor enhancement. This issue could be a wxFormBuilder issue

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Marco, I've been following this thread and have a few suggestions for the plot dialog. 1) Hide the irrelevant settings depending on the current plot type selected. In other words, hide the postscript and HPGL options when plotting gerbers. 2) Use a wxChoice to select the plot type instead of rad

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/01/2011 01:14 PM, Mike Goodfellow wrote: > Dick, Wayne & Jean-Pierre, > > A week ago Simon Rogers posted on the developers mailing list regarding > some ideas with the Kicad library. A "we" was mentioned in the post, well, > the "we" is made up of Simon and I - we both work together at the sa

Re: [Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Fabio Varesano
I'm sorry if this question seems dumb, I'm still getting my feet wet with Kicad and its source.. but reading your document, isn't this already achievable by putting your library under a versioning tool, like bzr, on a centralized server? FV On 02/01/2011 08:14 PM, Mike Goodfellow wrote: > Dick,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Error reading PcbPlotParams.. PARSE_ERROR

2011-02-01 Thread Fabio Varesano
Mmm.. sounds quite complex.. maybe it's better to start from something else.. I'll give it a look anyway. Thanks, FV On 02/01/2011 08:12 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 02/01/2011 12:43 PM, Fabio Varesano wrote: >> Thank you Dick, it seems that the problem has gone away with 2779. >> >> Would yo

[Kicad-developers] Kicad Library Concept Ideas

2011-02-01 Thread Mike Goodfellow
Dick, Wayne & Jean-Pierre, A week ago Simon Rogers posted on the developers mailing list regarding some ideas with the Kicad library. A "we" was mentioned in the post, well, the "we" is made up of Simon and I - we both work together at the same company and have used Kicad for a while now. Anyway,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Error reading PcbPlotParams.. PARSE_ERROR

2011-02-01 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 02/01/2011 12:43 PM, Fabio Varesano wrote: > Thank you Dick, it seems that the problem has gone away with 2779. > > Would you mind in which commit you fixed this? I'm getting started > with Kicad sources and it would help me as I briefly tried to fix that > problem by myself. > > Thanks, > > Fab

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 01/02/2011 19:20, Jerry Jacobs a écrit : Hello Marco, I like it but it has still some issues with wxWidgets on Mac with version 2.9.2 from svn (rev 66766). I committed a fix, with a minor enhancement. This issue could be a wxFormBuilder issue, or could be due to some changes between wxW

Re: [Kicad-developers] Error reading PcbPlotParams.. PARSE_ERROR

2011-02-01 Thread Fabio Varesano
Thank you Dick, it seems that the problem has gone away with 2779. Would you mind in which commit you fixed this? I'm getting started with Kicad sources and it would help me as I briefly tried to fix that problem by myself. Thanks, Fabio Varesano On 02/01/2011 05:47 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Saving plot dialog settings

2011-02-01 Thread Jerry Jacobs
Hello Marco, I like it but it has still some issues with wxWidgets on Mac with version 2.9.2 from svn (rev 66766). I put a screenshot on my server over here: http://kicad.xor-gate.org/screenshots/new-plot-screen-issues.png The issues are the format frame, and the gerber options entries labels