Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[Josh Jordan <outerspaceman81@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Right on.  Lack of a footprint browser was a huge turnoff when I first
   started using geda.  In fact, it compelled me stick with eagle for
   longer.  As for moving objects to an absolute location, two simple
   things need to be done.  Moveobject() only moves 1 object at a time it
   does not operate on all selected.  This could be changed by adding a
   Moveselected() function or adding another arg to moveobject() for
   instance moveobject(selected, +200, -200, mil).   It would also be
   simple to put that in the gui somewhere.
   I don't know about a footprint browser, that is not as simple.  I use
   grep on the command line to find them.  I was not finding footprints
   easily and i was rewriting footprints that already existed before I
   figured out how to search for them.  It seems like common sense now to
   use grep but when I first switched to linux I knew nothing about
   grep.  We could do a folder view of footprints with an entry box for
   grep patterns.  This is a challenge if it has to be OS-independant.
   --- On Tue, 8/11/09, spuzzdawg <spuzzdawg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

   I need to know about M4
      footprints vs the newer style. The only way to find out the correct
      footprint name to use is too look through the footprint files in a
      folder that changes depending on the method of install. If the
      footprint doesn't exist I need to create it using a cryptic
   language.
      Some basic functions, like moving a component to an absolute
   location,
      only have a command line action with no gui counterpart. Users then
      have to email the mailing list to find out what all the hidden
      functionality is because the documentation exists but is very hard
   to
      find and decipher.

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