gEDA-user: PCB property tweak dialog [was PCB Ground Plane - Autowiring?]

[Ethan Swint <eswint.ramu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Kai on this.  Moving back'n'forth between PCB and text 
breaks the undo/redo history and I frequently get interrupted and then 
forget which editor - PCB or text - has the changes I want.  
One feature that I use quite frequently in Inkscape (vector graphics 
program) is the ability to bring up the XML data and manipulate it 
directly.  It parses into a nice tree and clicking on a leaf brings up 
the XML data directly related to that leaf. 

I've yet to dig into PCB's innards, but I'd be willing to help code this 
with a bit of mis/in/direction...  Give me a holler, on- or off-list, if 
you can provide a little guidance.

-Ethan

Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:14:28 -0500, Ethan Swint wrote:
>
>   
>> The way I do this is to put my mouse over a via in the appropriate net,
>> hit 'F' for 'Find', save the file.  Then, in a text editor, I navigate
>> to the via section and replace all of the "found" flags with
>> "found,thermal(1x)" or whatever layer I am looking for.
>>     
>
> This kind of editing on found objects should be possible from within the 
> GUI. Most apps do this wit a properties dialog. Is there a religious 
> reason why there is no properties dialog in pcb? 
>
> ---<(kaimartin)>---
>   


_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user