Re: gEDA-user: Refreshing symbol libraries ?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 12:06 -0400, Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I think a gtk file monitor object connected to each component-library
> paths would be great for that. This way gschem can update the symbols(in
> an efficient way) every time there's a change in the libraries. BUT if
> you want the schematics being updated there are probably some issues
> regarding unsaved changes if the way to do that is by re-opening the
> schematic's file. That said, I don't know how gschem works on that.
> 
> Best Regards, Felipe.

I don'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..

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