Re: gEDA-user: New PCB Library window

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:55 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote:

> Elsewhere in this thread someone mentions a --library option.

That was another patch, the idea was to have PCB display just the
library window, so it could be called from within gschem to pick your
footprint= attribute.

> I was just trying to figure out how to add to the list of directories pcb searches
> for footprints without destroying whats already there (which it sounds like
> the command line option does).  Some FAQ on the wiki says something about
> changing an X resource set by a wrapper script, but pcb seems to be a
> binary at the moment.

> How can I add a directory to the search list so I can try out the
> footprints to see what they look like?

It might be worth trying the --lib-path option.

Alternatively, take a look at the preferences from within the
application, "File->Preferences...->Library".

-- 
Peter Clifton

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Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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