On 09/08/2010 03:44 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
The reason I don't close down PCB is that it's a pain to close down PCB, then open it again, position the window where you want it, resize the PCB window, move the status box where you want it, close the library, etc., particularly when you make a small tweak and want to visualize it several times in a row.To reiterate my caveat: I do the same thing :-) In fact, I with "revert" didn't reset things like layer visibility and such.
So far, my favorite idea wrt operating on the .pcb file outside pcb is to start from a menu click, named whatever the user wants, to load "your favorite text processing program" while freezing the open pcb windows and saving all their positions and states, and upon some other cue, unfreeze the pcb window(s). The other cue could be closing the 'text processing program' from itself, or probably better, from another menu pick named something easy like, pcb mode. Then, for instance a vi user could label the first menu pick vi mode, and the second one pcb mode. Or any other names and programs a user could want. John _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user