gEDA-dev: GSOC last minute proposal

[Dan McMahill]

Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Now, that the GSoC application deadline was delayed, I'd like to propose 
> a project that would definitely improve usability of gschem:
> 
> 	An interactive sub sheet symbol generator  
> 
> Currently, manual sub sheet generation is a major obstacle when starting 
> a hierarchical project. I'd expect this to be a finite project with good 
> chance to be completed by the end of summer. Any chance for this proposal 
> to enter the GSoC procedure?

fwiw, a large commercial tool I know of lets you create a symbol from a 
schematic or a schematic from a symbol.  In the sch->sym direction, you 
get a dialog which has a text entry for top,bottom,left,right and they 
come pre-filled in with all the pin names.  You can re-order the pins 
and/or move them to different edges of the symbol.  Then hit ok and you 
get a box symbol with all the pins.  The sym->sch direction just creates 
an empty schematic with all the pins in place.  Both are pretty darn useful.

-Dan