gEDA-dev: Google summer of code

[DJ Delorie]

> What I mean is not just to initiate an action, but to be able to present a
> simple dialog box to set up the parameters. Is that possible with
> pcb-menu.res? With exporters, it is (and it already works from scripts).

It's not in pcb-menu.res.  Exporters are special because the GUI knows
to prompt for the exporter's list of attributes.  Additionally, the
GUI automatically lists the exporters and lets the user choose from
them, without having to manually list them.  Also, the exporters can
be invoked from the command line with the -x option.

But the exporters, like any action, can ask the GUI to prompt the user
for a list of attributes, either static or dynamically generated.

> The tiling script would register a wizard hid so a new submenu would
> show up in the wizrds menu. When the user would select it, a dialog
> box would pop up with settings like

I think this is what I was thinking of with the wizard hid type.