Re: gEDA-user: wishful UI

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

----- John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> 
> > When you click the "new" button beside the view tabs, you'll get a popup
> > asking if you want to create a:
> >   o  New functional block
> >   o  New component (footprint)
> >   o  Custom view
> 
> So are you thinking of reusing the layout editor to edit the footprint view?

No, there will be a new "new" button beside the tabs, like in
Firefox. Clicking that will popup the dialog.

> Then we could create pins or pads to get a new footprint with
> existing footprints inside it.  The netlister would need to handle
> footprints with no package similarly as we handle flattened hierarchy now.
> 

You could create a footprint out of other footprints, but it would
probably need to be flattened when saving out.

> Probably you're thinking of saving to the buffer
> and convert to footprint.  the buffer method only allows one level I think,
> no component within component.
> 

Exactly.

> I'd be happy to have a simple no hierarchy layout group with no new pads or
> pins added that is savable.  Then no netlister changes would be needed,
> the group could be handled by flattened hierarchy naming if you wanted
> to put down repeated instances of it.
> 


Andrew



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