gEDA-dev: In which HID would a PCB preview live?

[Peter Clifton]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:20 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
> how about telling pcb (via actions or the command line) to produce a 
> .png and then display that in gschem (or whatever)?
> 

Its a possibility, true I guess try it and see - rather than worrying it
might be slow.

I'd intended that the "preview mode / hid preview" would not require you
to close / re-open PCB for each new preview. I guess via actions, this
could be true of the png method.

I really dislike temp files where I might be able to avoid them!

Oh, and having an external library browsing program (or just PCB called
with appropriate flags) is still on my wish-list for "integration".
(Integration via separation :))

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