Re: gEDA-user: Thoughts using gschem

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sean D'Epagnier wrote:
> Hi, I am just getting started with gschem.  I have questions and ideas.
> 
> zooming in and out is done using z and Z.  In pcb it zooms using
> the mouse wheel.  Does else anyone want to conform both programs to use
> similar navigation by default?
Your recent PCB will zoom by z and <shift>z also -- that 's the default.
This is better than it has been, and yes there is interest in making gschem and pcb
more the same as a default, but there's no plan to change gschem from
2-key sequences for commands any time soon...  Is there?

Adding a mouse wheel input to gschem is something many would welcome, and
some will want the  zoom by z and <shift>z left in a workable in parallel too.

> 
> I had some trouble figuring out why my netlists were shorted.  I found
> out that elements can have builtin attributes that do not appear when
> editing the element.  Some of these "hidden" attributes were netlists
> shorting various things out.  Does anyone else want to display all
> attributes on an element, and in this way make it possible to remove
> or override attributes defined in the element.  I think this would
> be very useful, and isn't very hard to implement.

the gattrib program will help with this.  It gives a spreadsheet view of all
components with attribs and ther you can find some of the symbols are
with embedded net attributes.   This points out that a range of styles are
possible with symbol libraries, where embedded netnames would be a "heavy"
design information content symbol with narrow applicability, and the ones without
are also not going to have any specific device name attrib either -- the "light"
symbol style.   You got caught mixing styles.  Libraries by volunteers are hard to
make march in unison.


   I am willing to try to
> implement these features, but I am new to gschem and want to make sure
> I am making sense.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean D'Epagnier


Making lots of sense.

John Griessen


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