gEDA-dev: Pinning down libgeda

[al davis]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 18:47, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Interactive gnucap schematic front-end and probing toolkit
> anyone? Make it "friendly" like PSpice to allow the mass
> PSpice user migration to quality free tools.

Gnucap now supports plugins in the development snapshot.  The 
others should too.  Then features can be contributed by many 
without making a mess out of the core.  For now, there are some 
growing pains, but I see tremendous power with the system.

Gschem needs three things to make this happen.

1. The ability to have a user defined menu, that can pass 
messages to another program.

2.  The ability for an external program change attributes by 
sending a message, and for these changes to show immediately if 
that attribute is visible.

3. The netlister must work, 100%.  You should not need to 
explicitly run it separately.  How about an "export" in the 
file menu, like word processors make pdf?

But this is for a look-alike transition.  Having the simulator 
commands/menu separate from the schematic is not a problem.



On the side ...  

Look at a gschem schematic, and a PSpice schematic, side by 
side.

Now look at a Multisim schematic and a gschem schematic, side by 
side.