Re: gEDA: PCB creeping feature addition suggestion

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:43:23AM +0000, Karel Kulhav? wrote:
> Hello
> 
> It's obviously a hard problem to determine footprint= attribute for
> a part arbitrarily chosen from PCB library.
> 
> I suggest (in the spirit of creeping-featurism ;-) ) a feature addition into
> PCB: that the pcb-bin-library window would have a third column that would
> display the necessary footprint= attribute for the given part. Macro aatributes
> in the style "DIL 16 300" would have a description in the style of "DIL <number
> of pins> <distance between rows in mils>"
> 

something like:


Index: file.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pcb/pcb/src/file.c,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -2 -r1.16 file.c
--- file.c      30 Apr 2004 01:49:21 -0000      1.16
+++ file.c      25 Aug 2004 01:55:58 -0000
@@ -940,10 +940,12 @@
          /* create the list entry */
          len = strlen (EMPTY (entry->Value)) +
-           strlen (EMPTY (entry->Description)) + 3;
+           strlen (EMPTY (entry->Description)) +
+           strlen (EMPTY (entry->Package)) + 6;
          entry->ListEntry = MyCalloc (len, sizeof (char),
                                       "ReadLibraryDescription()");
          sprintf (entry->ListEntry,
-                  "%s, %s", EMPTY (entry->Value),
-                  EMPTY (entry->Description));
+                  "%s, %s [%s]", EMPTY (entry->Value),
+                  EMPTY (entry->Description),
+                  EMPTY (entry->Package));
        }
     }

works pretty well for the m4 libs which don't make use of the
Param1 and Param2 defines.  Libs which work well with this are:

~amp
~amphenol
~bourns
~cts
~geda
~johnstech
~minicircuits
~panasonic

The other ~* libs don't work so well.  

these are

~connector
~crystal
~generic
~genericsmt
~jerry
~linear
~logic
~lsi
~memory
~optical
~pci
~resistor_0.25W
~resistor_adjust
~resistor_array
~texas_inst_amplifier
~texas_inst_voltage_reg
~transistor

-Dan