Re: gEDA-user: gattrib visibility doesn't work

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 06:01:00PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I selected the footprint column (by clicking the footprint label which
> > > made the whole column black) and then selected "set selected invisible",
> > > saved the schematic, quit gattrib and run gschem on the schematic.
> > > The footprint attributes were still visible.
> > 
> > Hmmm. . . .    That's not good!   FWIW, I have never had a problem
> > with this feature.  That is, it works for me.  I will take a look at
> 
> Looks like it was my problem now - it works on the second try and the
> first time I hid footprint attributes and mistook package attributes for
> footprint attributes (because they are mostly identical). Sorry.

No problem!  I'm glad to hear that gattrib is working as promised, and
that there is a user base! 

> > One little feature I still need to implement for this feature:  I want
> > to show the user the state of the attribute visibility by changing the
> > font of the attribute's text.  But this involves first understanding
> > how Pango fonts work.  Not for the faint of heart!

Any recommendations from anybody about how to get clear info about how
GTK, GDK, Pango, and all that are supposed to work? 

Stuart