Re: gEDA-user: library listing of custom elements

["harry eaton" <bumpelo@comcast.net>]

It's worth noting that presently if you save a new element within a
directory already
under the library path, it won't show up in the library until you quit the
program and
restart it.

harry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan McMahill" <dan@mcmahill.net>
To: <geda-user@seul.org>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: library listing of custom elements


> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:29:01AM -0700, David Koski wrote:
> > I can see the the common footprints from the m4 library are in the
> > pcb-bin-library list prefixed with a "~" and the newlib footprints are
without.
> > How do I add my own newlib footprints to the pcb-bin-library list?
> >
>
> add the top level directory to Pcb.elementPath.
>
>
> FWIW, I often times in a project directory, create a pcb wrapper
> script that looks like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> XAPPLRESDIR=/path/to/my/project
> export XAPPLRESDIR
> unset XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
> exec /path/to/pcb/bin/pcb-bin $@
>
>
> and then in /path/to/my/project I copy the app-defaults file, Pcb,
> and make any local settings I want there.
>
> -Dan
>
> --