gEDA-dev: [pcb] attributes

[Peter TB Brett]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 17:01, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Would there be any mileage in the concept of attribute "namespaces"?
>
> If a tool wants to put "<tool>:" in front of all its attribute names,
> that's fine with me.  Were you thinking of something more formal?
>
> gattrib:cols = 4
> gattrib:colnames:1 = "Footprint"

I was thinking of including a mechanism built-in that all tools _had_ to use.  
In order to avoid tools trampling on each others attributes by accident.

That way if a tool wanted to access an attribute 'belonging' to another tool, 
it would have to request so specifically.

  addAttribute('pcb', 'footprint', 'DIP20')

Peter

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