Re: gEDA-user: New user question

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> >John Doty wrote:
> >> Click on the component to select it. From the menu bar, choose
> >> Hierarchy>Down Symbol, or use the Hs keyboard shortcut. You'll shift from
> >> editting the schematic to editting the symbol, and its filename will
> >> appear in the state bar at the at bottom of the window. Do Hierarchy>Up or
> >> Hu to get back to your schematic.
> >
> >Thanks John, that's exactly what I was looking for.
> >
> 
> 	*cringe*
> 
> 	That's an interesting way of getting the filename, but let me be
> the first to say... "gross" :)  Thanks for finding this workaround, John.

I've been doing this in gschem for a couple of years. It seemed perfectly
natural, but now the master tells me it's a *workaround*. My head is
hanging in shame ;-)

Seriously, for my development flow this is important. I'll start out using
the "generic" symbols from the gEDA library, but as they accrete
additional specs (tolerance, voltage, temp range, dielectric, ...) I'll
replace them with symbols from a library I construct specifically for a
project or group of projects. So the question "does this symbol belong to
this project" comes up.

In the end, I wind up with a custom library that represents the kinds of
components a project is using. This is useful for inventory and
procurement. It helps me avoid specifying too many different kinds of
parts. I've been organizing projects this way for many years, first with
Viewlogic and now with gEDA.

John Doty          "You can't confuse me, that's my job."
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