Re: gEDA-user: Re: Wishes, bugs and misunderstandings

[Werner Hoch <werner.ho@xxxxxx>]

Hi Kai-Martin and all,

On Sunday 19 November 2006 20:25, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:32:37 +0100, Werner Hoch wrote:
> > You can easily translate the symbol back to the center of gschem,
> > when you use a large distance for translation. e.g. translate
> > symbol with 10000 will move it to (10000,10000)
>
> Even if you do, there might still be something beyond the screen. How
> about a special value "all" in the et action? This would translate
> the symbol to the right and up until all objects are visible and
> pin-1 is on the grid.

You can make the hidden text visible and then translate the symbol to 
zero.
Would that fit your needs?

> > BTW: the translation should be the last step when creating symbols
> > ;-).
>
> The hidden text is still beyond the screen if you want to re-edit the
> symbol e.g. to derive a similar symbol. IMHO a warning should be
> issued if an action will translate an object to negative coordinates.

I think the warning should be printed by the symbol checker (gsymcheck).

regards
Werner


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