gEDA-bug: [ geda-Feature Requests-1723653 ] Intelligent helper interface for attributes

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Feature Requests item #1723653, was opened at 2007-05-22 17:24
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Status: Open
Priority: 9
Private: No
Submitted By: Peter Clifton (petercjclifton)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Intelligent helper interface for attributes

Initial Comment:
In addition to the default list of attributes, we ought to be able to define scheme calls which can provide:

Auto-completion of a partially typed value
Validation of a typed value
Execution of a UI to assist the user in finding a value.

Eg.. for attribute name="footprint"

we might have a validator which cross-references the available footprints in PCB, and an assist UI which spawns PCB to select a footprint and return its name to gschem.

(Filing idea here for reference)




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