gEDA-dev: Re: gEDA-user: Re: New features in gattrib

[Stuart Brorson]

I may be wrong, but there are two types of attributes we worry about:

1.  Attributes pertainent to the electrical design.  I don't know what
floating attributes one needs here, but others seem to.

2.  Attributes pertainent to the session settings of the tools,
i.e. gschem zoom levels, gattrib column widths and (eventually)
positions

(3.  There are also attribs attached to components and nets, but they
are already handled well.)

The first are presumably handled using the floating attribute already
present in the .sch file format.  The second is what I am worried
about.

Or have I missed something?

Stuart


On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, John Doty wrote:

> On Aug 14, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>
>> 
>> Yeah, I think you're right.  The gEDA/gaf file format needs some way
>> to store this sort of meta information.   Right now it doesn't.
>> In the past we have discussed embedding comments into the .sym (and by
>> extension the .sch) files.  Perhaps the other meta information can
>> piggyback on any comment format we come up with.
>
> What's wrong with attributes?  The file format accommodates detached 
> attributes. Why have another mechanism?
>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> jpd at wispertel.net
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