gEDA-dev: xgsch2pcb

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 13:51 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:59:37 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> 
> >> Hmm. What is xgsch2pcb? A GUI version of gsch2pcb?
> > 
> > More of a GUI interface to gsch2pcb at the moment.
>                              ^^^^^^^^
>  Did you mean some other gaf tool?

xgsch2pcb is an interface to:
gsch2pcb

It doesn't handle any of the PCB updating its-self, it executes gsch2pcb
(after doing a bit of evil file-shuffling so it doesn't update your PCB
file in the same way as gsch2pcb would usually.

Basically, we make a backup run gsch2pcb, (with your design live and
open in PCB), we poke PCB to re-load the design - now with updates, we
then move your original file back. (You don't save in PCB, nothing has
changed on disk).

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Peter Clifton

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