Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-29 Thread David MacQuigg
On 27 Aug 2005 17:00:07 -0700, "sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cool, I went to the UofA for my MS in ECE, 2000. I did my theses under >Chuck Higgins. -- >http://neuromorph.ece.arizona.edu/pubs/ma_schwager_msthesis.pdf > >The tools we had were constantly underwhelming me,

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-29 Thread David MacQuigg
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:56:03 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:21 am, David MacQuigg wrote: >> There is a similar lack of interest in the academic community. None >> of this is likely to lead to publications in scholarly journals. > >I'm confused by wh

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-29 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:21 am, David MacQuigg wrote: > The discouraging thing about the EDA tools situation is that no matter > how loudly design engineers complain about the poor quality of the > proprietary tools they are using, there is very little interest in > participating in an open-so

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-27 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Cool, I went to the UofA for my MS in ECE, 2000. I did my theses under Chuck Higgins. -- http://neuromorph.ece.arizona.edu/pubs/ma_schwager_msthesis.pdf The tools we had were constantly underwhelming me, so I've been thinking for years that a properly designed new toolset for students should be m

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-27 Thread David MacQuigg
On 24 Aug 2005 13:48:13 -0700, "sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm a newbie to Python, so I have a question about writing an >application that also has a scripting ability. I'm thinking of Eric3 >as an example. It's written in Python, but it also has an inter

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-25 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Hi, Actually I was thinking of doing the bulk of everything in Python, and then embedding a Python interpreter into the CAD program. Anything in C++ would be to speed up critical things, like rules checking, etc. I have looked at python cad (found it a year or two ago) and am inspired by it; I'm

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-25 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:13 am, Peter Hansen wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote: > >>Or even http://www.pythoncad.org/ which, although probably for > >>mechanical CAD work (I haven't looked at it, don't really know), is > >>surely a goo

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Terry Hancock wrote: > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote: >>Or even http://www.pythoncad.org/ which, although probably for >>mechanical CAD work (I haven't looked at it, don't really know), is >>surely a good place to get ideas of what Python can do in this area. > > No, I

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:12 pm, Peter Hansen wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >>I have a strong EE and hardware background (hence my need to write a > >>CAD program that doesn't piss me off), but not a CS background. > > > > You probably ought to consider starting with something existing like

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Terry Hancock wrote: >>I have a strong EE and hardware background (hence my need to write a >>CAD program that doesn't piss me off), but not a CS background. > > Cool. If you do write it and release it, I'd be interested in finding out > about it. > > You probably ought to consider starting with

Re: Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:48 pm, sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth wrote: > In my case I'd like to write a CAD program which allows the user to > write Python scripts, and to provide an API to do CAD stuff, manipulate > parameters, circuits, layouts, simulations, etc. The user should not > have acc

Newbie question: Sub-interpreters for CAD program

2005-08-24 Thread sonicSpammersGoToHellSmooth
Hi all, I'm a newbie to Python, so I have a question about writing an application that also has a scripting ability. I'm thinking of Eric3 as an example. It's written in Python, but it also has an interpreter window. The user doesn't have access (I don't think...) to all the internal stuff that