Re: gEDA-user: Working on a tiny schematics editor

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefan, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Salewski
> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 2:49 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Working on a tiny schematics editor
> 
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 19:31 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > Some weeks ago I started working on a very basic schematics editor, 
> > compatible with current gschem file format. I am writing it 
> in Ruby, 
> > using GTK/Cairo.
> > 
> 
> No, the project is not death...
> I just managed to draw to a GTK drawing area, with 
> zooming/panning/scrolling support. So very friendly people 
> may already consider it a viewer for gschem schematics :-) 
> See bottom of this page:
> 
> http://www.ssalewski.de/PetEd-Demo.html.en
> 
> I think one reason for start writing it was my desire to 
> assign attributes/classes to subnets, to transfer this 
> information to PCB to support manually- and auto-routing with 
> already specified parameters for traces.
> 
> I think, even if Anthonys Toporouter is in deep coma 
> currently, such an application makes still some sense. So I 
> can not promise that I will NOT continue this effort.
> 
> I would be interested how many people can run the demo script 
> (peted.rb) from the top of the  above page. Are the needed 
> rcairo bindings shipped with distributions like Ubuntu? If 
> not, then it may be easier for people to install the whole 
> gEDA package than to get such a short ruby script running. :-(
> 
> Best wishes for the new year,
> 
> Stefan Salewski
> 

Congrats,

Works like a charm on Fedora 13 (after ÿum install ruby-gtk2" which includes
rcairo as adependancy).

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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