gEDA-dev: New diagram (attempt at UML)

[Peter Clifton]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:21 -0600, John Doty wrote:

> Years ago I suggested to Ales that an attribute ("pageframe")  
> attached to a rectangle could make that the frame for a page. I was  
> thinking of printing, but maybe it could help in other ways, too.

> Unfortunately, a big flat design can run to dozens of pages (done one  
> like that), and I would worry about running out of space in a gschem  
> window if I couldn't use multiple files. Files also give you a way to  
> hang a subsystem name on a group of pages.

I was thinking more that multiple "pages" of a hierarchy level would /
could reside in the same file, each having its own canvas, just as if
you had multiple pages in separate files.

> And then there's gEDA-style hierarchical design, which right now uses  
> a separate file for each "source". Or SPICE-style hierarchical  
> design, which is a bit more chaotic ;-)

I'm in favour of the gEDA-style hierarchical design, but I was thinking
a "source" could point to a file with all the pages of that particular
sub-circuit.

Peter