Re: gEDA-user: Multiple open pages in gschem

["Harold D. Skank" <skank54@xxxxxxxxx>]

Harold Skank again.

On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 23:20 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> I'm hoping to conduct a brief census of people who use multiple pages in
> gschem. I'm working on some code-changes to libgeda which may change the
> navigation model slightly, and wanted to see how it is used now.
> 
> This is a feature which confuses some new users, as it can make work
> "disappear" behind a new page.
> 
> I'm also unsure if the "user-model" (what the user thinks the program
> does), matches the program's behaviour:
> 
> Do you use multiple windows running from the same copy of gschem?

Even though I have many pages, I usually have only 1 page at a time
open.

> 
> Do you use multiple running copies of gschem?

Never!

> 
> Do you use these for related schematics?
>   (Do you tend to have multiple pages from the same design?)

I don't understand this question.

> 
> How much use do you make of hierarchy traversal?
>   (Schematic or symbol down, up, page next, page previous)?

I use it occasionally, mostly when I'm using new symbols and find bugs
in them.

> 
> 
> For testing, I've got a version of gschem which just opens a pages in a
> flat list. These can be traversed using toolbar buttons, just like a
> document viewer. This significantly simplifies some code, and UI
> presentation issues for a complex nested  hierarchy.
> 
> I'm also considering it might be best to launch a new window for each
> hierarchy level, reserving multiple pages in one window to tie directly
> to the case where a single level of hierarchy has multiple pages.
> 
> This is probably something I'll do whilst I develop the extended
> data-structure needed to be more flexible with viewing the hierarchy.
> 
> Example screenshots are at:
> 
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/gschem_page_navi.png
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/gschem_page_navi2.png
> 
> (Same pic, just a different page loaded in each case).
> 
> Regards.
> 



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